From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikos Apostolakis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "C-a" the first character in each line? Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:36:06 -0400 Message-ID: <87bqf4v0jd.fsf@Sullivan.bcc.cuny.edu> References: <87k5ttv69d.fsf@Sullivan.bcc.cuny.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182764317 31766 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2007 09:38:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 09:38:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 25 11:38:36 2007 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 1I2l1l-0007Or-9B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:38:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2l1k-00064a-NA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:38:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2l1U-00063h-Ak for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:38:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I2l1S-00063V-Tt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:38:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2l1S-00063S-NE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:38:14 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I2l1S-0007k0-6N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 05:38:14 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I2l0E-0006Vy-60 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:36:58 +0200 Original-Received: from 199.219.160.30 ([199.219.160.30]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:36:58 +0200 Original-Received: from nikos.ap by 199.219.160.30 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:36:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.219.160.30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:JgIPUTtwfe9SxIsCu0WYsOGDYjc= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:45273 Archived-At: Nikos Apostolakis writes: > (while (search-forward-regexp "^\\(.\\)" nil t) > (replace-match "\% \1")) [...] > > What am I missing? > So I was missing a backwards slash (plues some sleep but that's another story ...) Many thanks to all that answered. Nikos