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From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:03:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-b33c3a33-cf26-44e3-80a9-16791329eb81-1605009830391@3c-app-mailcom-bs07> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zh3pctr1.fsf@web.de>


Have used the following

(defun compfx ()
  (interactive "r")
  (query-replace-regexp "^" ";; + "))



> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 12:54 PM
> From: "Michael Heerdegen" <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines
>
> Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes:
>
> > Have selected a region, and called the command.  However the region
> > remained unchanged.
>
> No, that should definitely work.  What exactly have you typed?  You have
> left out the "" string markers?  Don't type them in the prompts.
>
> Michael.
>
>
>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-10 12:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-10 10:43 Adding String to Beginning of Lines Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 11:10 ` tomas
2020-11-10 11:19   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 11:29   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 11:54     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 11:58       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 12:07         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 12:03       ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2020-11-10 12:16         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 13:40           ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 14:06             ` Jean Louis
2020-11-10 14:29               ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 19:12                 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-10 19:42                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 21:22                     ` Jean Louis
2020-11-11 10:59                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-17 16:06                         ` Jean Louis
2020-11-17 16:28                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 22:31                     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-10 23:00                       ` Drew Adams
2020-11-11 21:37                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 14:16             ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 14:38               ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 14:49                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 17:52                   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 18:03                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 18:25                       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 18:49                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 18:56                           ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 19:02                             ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 19:29                               ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 20:07                                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 22:45             ` tomas
2020-11-11 11:16               ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-11 13:22                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-11 13:56                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-11 14:07                   ` tomas
2020-11-11 14:49                     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-11 17:20                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-11 18:12                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-11 18:25                     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-11 18:35                     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 14:03         ` Jean Louis
2020-11-10 11:42 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 18:47   ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-11-12 19:01 ` Dante Catalfamo
2020-11-14 22:09   ` Jamie Beardslee
2020-11-14 23:17     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-14 23:39       ` Jamie Beardslee
2020-11-15  9:12       ` tomas

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