From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: prepend a character to the lines in a region Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:06:11 -0500 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87pskfenix.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: <6RkTf.14889$S25.11036@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142962842 3547 80.91.229.2 (21 Mar 2006 17:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:40:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 21 18:40:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FLkqP-0006N2-Uc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:40:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FLkqY-0001LY-7K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:40:42 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:cGRNW+MHWgLlJ1NeDZ+IXsKULFc= Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.55.140.81 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1142960772 70.55.140.81 (Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:06:12 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:06:12 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:138305 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:33917 Archived-At: > 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