Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

Have selected a region, and called the command.  However the region
remained unchanged. 


> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 12:10 PM
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:43:45AM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > 
> > I have a paragraph and want to add a string to the beginning of each line after selecting
> > the paragraph region.
> > 
> > GNU is an operating system that is free software—that is, it respects users' freedom. The
> > GNU operating system consists of GNU packages (programs specifically released by the GNU 
> > Project) as well as free software released by third parties. The development of GNU made
> > it possible to use a computer without software that would trample your freedom.
> > 
> > Example, passing ';; + ' as argument to a function to get
> > 
> > ;; + GNU is an operating system that is free software—that is, it respects users' freedom. The
> > ;; + GNU operating system consists of GNU packages (programs specifically released by the GNU 
> > ;; + Project) as well as free software released by third parties. The development of GNU made
> > ;; + it possible to use a computer without software that would trample your freedom.
> 
>  - Select the region
>  - M-x query-replace-regexp "^" → ";; + "
>  - Profit!
> 
> Wrapping that up in a function is left as an exercise to the
> reader :-)
> 
> Cheers
> -- t
>