From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "C-a" the first character in each line?
Date: 24 Jun 2007 14:17:32 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnf7sv69.909.joostkremers@j.kremers4.news.arnhem.chello.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2564.1182691580.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Nikos Apostolakis wrote:
> Hello group,
>
> in the scratch buffer I did
>
> -----------------
> (while (search-forward-regexp "^\\(.\\)" nil t)
> (replace-match "\% \1"))
[...]
> % ^A
> % ^Aaa
> % ^Aoo
> % ^Aii
>
> where ^A stands for the character "C-a".
>
> What am I missing?
it's actually what you're inserting: \1 *is* ^A:
(string-match "\1" "abc\x01")
==> 3
so what you need to do is escape the backslash:
(replace-match "% \\1")
btw, you are aware of the function string-insert-rectangle?
--
Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
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2007-06-24 13:59 ` "C-a" the first character in each line? weber
2007-06-25 1:32 ` Barry Margolin
2007-06-24 14:17 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2007-06-25 9:29 ` Nikos Apostolakis
2007-06-24 13:20 Nikos Apostolakis
2007-06-24 14:14 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-25 9:36 ` Nikos Apostolakis
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