>
> Save your .emacs file: C-x C-s
>
>   Mark Rosenthal
> mbr@arlsoft.com
>
>   P.S. - Interesting side-note.  Did you know that the ed command:
>
>     g/regular expression/operation
>
> is where the name "grep" came from?  In ed and ex, the "g" means do a
> global search for the immediately following regular expression, and apply
> the operation to every matching line.  One such operation is "p" meaning
> "print".  Using "re" as shorthand for "regular expression", the ed command
> to print every line that matches a particular regular expression is:
>
>                 g/re/p
>
>
>
Thank you very much Mark for the detailed explanation and the interesting
side note :) I am inclined to the macro approach since the possibilities are
endless.

Regards,
Kashyap