From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Applying macro to lines which match regexp Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:36:59 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1224114164.589682@arno.fh-trier.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224117649 9469 80.91.229.12 (16 Oct 2008 00:40:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:40:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 02:41:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KqGw0-0007qh-A5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:41:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56083 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KqGuv-0004VX-EZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:40:41 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.tu-darmstadt.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1224114187 27330 143.93.54.11 (15 Oct 2008 23:43:07 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:43:07 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-199-061.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163486 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:58828 Archived-At: Corey Foote wrote: > I was reading through the Emacs manual today, and came across C-x C-k r (apply-macro-to-region-lines) which applies the last keyboard macro to each line that begins in the region. How would I apply the last keyboard macro to each line that begins in the region which match a certain regular expression. For example, say I was editing a Perl script and wanted to apply the last macro to all line which consist solely of a comment. For example: > > 1 # Print some text > 2 print "foo"; > 3 print "foobar"; > 4 > 5 # And then a while later > 6 print "foobarbaz"; > > I would want to apply the macro to lines 1 and 6 which match the regular expression ^\s-*#. Thanks a bunch! > > Corey Foote > Toby Software Bind the macro, e.g. with C-x C-k b 1 , and create another new macro that does the searching part and then calls macro-1. Or edit your macro (C-x C-k e) and prepend some searching `code'. -ap