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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: prepend a character to the lines in a region
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:06:11 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pskfenix.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6RkTf.14889$S25.11036@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net

> If I want to respond to an email where (for whatever reason) the sender's
> text hasn't been quoted, I copy paste it into emacs and do a search
> replace with this regular expression:

> C-M-% \(.+\) RET >\1  RET

There are many ways to do that, but the closest to your suggestion may be:

  C-M-% ^ RET > RET


        Stefan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-21 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-19 22:22 prepend a character to the lines in a region B. T. Raven
2006-03-19 22:25 ` David Kastrup
2006-03-19 23:14   ` B. T. Raven
2006-03-20 17:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-03-21 17:06 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2006-03-21 23:39   ` B. T. Raven

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