Re: emacs insert icrement numbers

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Jim Ottaway <j.ottaway@lse.ac.uk> writes:

> Regards,
>
> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
>
>> With latest versions (>=22), you can use \,form in the the substitutions.
>>
>> For example, select a region and:
>>
>> M-x replace-regexp RET \(.*\) RET 
>>     \,(progn(defvar n 0)(format "%3d " (incf n)))\1 RET
>>
>
> Or
>
> M-x replace-regexp RET ^ RET \,\#  
>
> [there are two spaces after the '\#'. I don't know why it needs 2 rather
> than one, though]

To distinguish this from
\,\#1
for example.  The space terminates \#.

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