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From: "Stefan Reichör" <xsteve@riic.at>
Subject: Re: function to increase numbers in a buffer
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:01:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ubryx1kyj.fsf@riic.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b84gt0$ctd$1@news.service.uci.edu

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Jordi Burguet Castell uttered the following:

>  Hello,
>  
>  I am trying to write a function that would work like
>  query-replace-regexp, but instead of replacing each match with a
>  fixed string, I want the matched numbers to be increased by 3.
>  
>  Or, easier, I have a file that looks like this:
>  
>  20      1       23523
>  20      2       23874
>  20      3       23898
>  ...
>  

Use cua-mode:
 Hit Shift-Enter
 Mark the numbers with the cursor keys
 Type: M-3 M-i ... Increment the marked numbers by 3


Stefan.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-23 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-22 13:50 function to increase numbers in a buffer Jordi Burguet Castell
2003-04-23  6:04 ` Harry Putnam
2003-04-23  6:50 ` Joakim Hove
2003-04-23 12:01 ` Stefan Reichör [this message]

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