From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:42:02 +0100 Message-ID: <875z6de8vp.fsf@web.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="4064"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:QuwmCzbqcjn3KFu+j/YvThs9bn4= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 10 12:47:55 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kcS7u-0000zB-Uv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:47:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40984 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcS7u-0000sU-0J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:47:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:51252) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcS2Q-0004tK-6W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:42:14 -0500 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:34088 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kcS2N-0005nb-RI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:42:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kcS2I-0004XH-TS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:42:06 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/11/10 06:11:01 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125178 Archived-At: Christopher Dimech writes: > I have a paragraph and want to add a string to the beginning of each > line after selecting the paragraph region. Alternatively, you can use `string-rectangle' when you select an appropriate rectangle (of width zero in this case) instead of the paragraph. See `rectangle-mark-mode' for how to get a visual feedback of the region interpreted as a rectangle. Michael.