From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: prepend a character to the lines in a region
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 10:56:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dvmqec$a1u$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6RkTf.14889$S25.11036@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net>
B. T. Raven wrote:
> 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
>
> This works but the region is repainted before each replacement. Is there a
> built in command that can accomplish this? M-; is almost right but it
> might not be if I had a defined syntax and I actually wanted to use it for
> commenting out a region.
Assuming you've marked the region: C-x r t > RET
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-20 17:56 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 [this message]
2006-03-21 17:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-03-21 23:39 ` B. T. Raven
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