From: Michael Cadilhac <michael.cadilhac@lrde.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Yet another rookie question replace-regexp
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:40:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8764mpqkwi.fsf@mahaena.lrde> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141744185.942210.153740@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> (billy's message of "7 Mar 2006 07:09:46 -0800")
"billy" <bp1497@att.com> writes:
> I know how to use this on a whole file. but how can I make this work on
> a region?
> If I want to comment out a 50 lines of 10k I don't want to comment out
> each line one at a time. I would like to do C-space bar them move
> below the last line I want to effect, the do the replace-regexp. But
> his does the whole file. I pass it ^ / #
,----[ C-h f replace-string RET ]
| replace-string is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `replace.el'.
| (replace-string from-string to-string &optional delimited start end)
|
| Replace occurrences of from-string with to-string.
| [...]
| In Transient Mark mode, if the mark is active, operate on the contents
| of the region. Otherwise, operate from point to the end of the buffer.
| [...]
|
| [back]
`----
In other words, you just have to activate the Transient Mark while
selecting your region.
In Emacs CVS it's done temporarily by hitting C-space twice.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-07 15:09 Yet another rookie question replace-regexp billy
2006-03-07 16:07 ` Albert Reiner
2006-03-07 16:33 ` Hans-Christoph Wirth
2006-03-08 22:56 ` kgold
2006-03-11 17:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-08 10:40 ` Michael Cadilhac [this message]
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