From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 17:06:46 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20201110111024.GA15992@tuxteam.de> <87zh3pctr1.fsf@web.de> <87o8k5csqj.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3258"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: Michael Heerdegen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Christopher Dimech Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 10 15:25:30 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kcUaQ-0000j1-3W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 15:25:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53272 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcUaP-0003NV-4B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:25:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:34396) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcUZG-0002k1-Oa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:24:18 -0500 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:41343) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcUZE-0003Ip-IC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 09:24:18 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.34.177]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002C0003.000000005FAAA28F.00004EB8; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 14:24:14 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/10 08:40:04 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125189 Archived-At: * Christopher Dimech [2020-11-10 16:41]: > I now have got 'rec-cont', which lets me pass a string. > How can I add a dafault if I don't pass a regex in the > mini-buffer. > > (defun rec-cont (beg end regex) > (interactive "r\ns rec-cont regex: ") > (replace-regexp "^" regex nil beg end)) > ;; (replace-regexp "^" ";; + " nil beg end)) Maybe (beg end &optional regex) (let ((regex (or regex default)))) And if you need to read regexp: read-regexp