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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: RE: replace-string for 1 line
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:35:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICCEEKDIAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5853003.post@talk.nabble.com>

    Say I want to carry out a replace command, but just for 1 line
    and not the rest of the docuemnt, is there a way to do that?

If you use transient-mark-mode (I recommend it), then just select the line,
then do the replacement. Many other commands and functions also operate on
the region, if it is active.

If you don't use transient-mark-mode, then narrow to that line: Select the
line, then `C-x n n'. Then do your replacement - only the region is visible,
so only the region is affected. Use `C-x n w' to widen, afterward. To do
this in Emacs Lisp, use `narrow-to-region' and `widen'.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-17 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-17 15:07 replace-string for 1 line ld1976
2006-08-17 16:35 ` Drew Adams [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.5278.1155831504.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-08-17 16:38 ` B. T. Raven
2006-08-17 16:40 ` Pascal Bourguignon

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