From: weber <hugows@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "C-a" the first character in each line?
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:59:37 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1182693577.251257.35950@u2g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2564.1182691580.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
On Jun 24, 10:20 am, Nikos Apostolakis <nikos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello group,
>
> in the scratch buffer I did
>
> -----------------
> (while (search-forward-regexp "^\\(.\\)" nil t)
> (replace-match "\% \1"))
>
> laa
> moo
> nii
> -----------------
>
> I expected
>
> %
> % laa
> % moo
> % nii
>
> but isnstead I get
>
> % ^A
> % ^Aaa
> % ^Aoo
> % ^Aii
>
> where ^A stands for the character "C-a".
>
> What am I missing?
>
> TIA,
> Nikos
Dunno why, but \\1 instead of \1 solves it.
Or alternatively:
(while (search-forward-regexp "^\\(.\\)" nil t)
(replace-match (concat "% "(match-string 1))))
which looks better to me...
HTH,
weber
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2007-06-24 13:59 ` weber [this message]
2007-06-25 1:32 ` "C-a" the first character in each line? Barry Margolin
2007-06-24 14:17 ` Joost Kremers
2007-06-25 9:29 ` Nikos Apostolakis
2007-06-24 13:20 Nikos Apostolakis
2007-06-24 14:14 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-25 9:36 ` Nikos Apostolakis
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