From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: prepend a character to the lines in a region Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:56:53 -0700 Message-ID: References: <6RkTf.14889$S25.11036@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142877565 11606 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2006 17:59:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:59:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 20 18:59:22 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FLOen-0005j7-Pl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:59:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FLOem-0003zG-Vt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:59:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FLOeP-0003xP-6f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:58:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FLOeN-0003w3-3a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:58:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FLOeM-0003vl-Ns for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:58:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FLOjy-0004qL-0t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:04:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FLOdr-0005Rq-V7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:58:07 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:58:07 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:58:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <6RkTf.14889$S25.11036@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:33905 Archived-At: B. T. Raven wrote: > 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 > > This works but the region is repainted before each replacement. Is there a > built in command that can accomplish this? M-; is almost right but it > might not be if I had a defined syntax and I actually wanted to use it for > commenting out a region. Assuming you've marked the region: C-x r t > RET -- Kevin Rodgers