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From: "B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@peoplepc.com>
Subject: Re: prepend a character to the lines in a region
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 23:39:53 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d90Uf.15977$S25.14858@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87pskfenix.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org


"Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote in message
news:87pskfenix.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org...
> > If I want to respond to an email where (for whatever reason) the
sender's
> > text hasn't been quoted, I copy paste it into emacs and do a search
> > replace with this regular expression:
>
> > C-M-% \(.+\) RET >\1  RET
>
> There are many ways to do that, but the closest to your suggestion may
be:
>
>   C-M-% ^ RET > RET
>
>
>         Stefan

That works too. I think I'll use C-space, move point to column 1 at end
and then C-x r t >

      reply	other threads:[~2006-03-21 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-19 22:22 prepend a character to the lines in a region B. T. Raven
2006-03-19 22:25 ` David Kastrup
2006-03-19 23:14   ` B. T. Raven
2006-03-20 17:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-03-21 17:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-21 23:39   ` B. T. Raven [this message]

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