Placing " at beginning and end of line?

Placing " at beginning and end of line?

[Sharon Kimble]

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How can I place " at the beginning of a line, and " at the end of a
line, in a highlighted region please? This is a block of 10+ lines,
and I need quotes from the beginning and end of each line.

I have a block of text, which is a latex preamble, as part of an org-mode
init file, which is tangled and creates my "init.el".

Thanks
Sharon.
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Re: Placing " at beginning and end of line?

[Tassilo Horn]

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Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

Hi Sharon,

> How can I place " at the beginning of a line, and " at the end of a
> line, in a highlighted region please? This is a block of 10+ lines,
> and I need quotes from the beginning and end of each line.

I'd use a keyboard macro for that:

<f3>  ;; start recording
C-a   ;; goto beginning of line
"     ;; insert double-quote
C-e   ;; goto end of line
"     ;; insert double-quote
C-n   ;; goto next line
<f4>  ;; stop recording

Then you can hit <f4> repeatedly until all your lines are quoted.

HTH,
Tassilo

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Re: Placing " at beginning and end of line?

[Yuri Khan]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Sharon Kimble
<boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> wrote:
> How can I place " at the beginning of a line, and " at the end of a
> line, in a highlighted region please? This is a block of 10+ lines,
> and I need quotes from the beginning and end of each line.

Probably easiest would be to replace-regexp (C-M-%) .* with "\&".

Re: Placing " at beginning and end of line?

[Nicolas Richard]

Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com> writes:

> How can I place " at the beginning of a line, and " at the end of a
> line, in a highlighted region please? This is a block of 10+ lines,
> and I need quotes from the beginning and end of each line.
>
> I have a block of text, which is a latex preamble, as part of an org-mode
> init file, which is tangled and creates my "init.el".

Another way is: C-M-% ^\|$ RET " RET
(i.e. replace all beginning of line and all end of line by a
double-quote character)

Yet another way would be using magnars' multiple-cursors-mode (available
from your favourite ELPA repository) : M-x mc/edit-lines (I have it bound to
"C-c e"), then do: " C-e " RET.

The added advantage of this solution is that it makes you feel extremely
powerful...

HTH,

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Nicolas