From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: "C-a" the first character in each line? Date: 24 Jun 2007 14:17:32 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182696113 18776 80.91.229.12 (24 Jun 2007 14:41:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:41:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 24 16:41:52 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I2THg-0007rO-T9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:41:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I2THg-0001bA-GS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2007 10:41:48 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Trace: individual.net uLQAbqdEqOV7R+ncEDmZ2AYLeBYiFZYA8uVzFc20LMXR7nOy3h Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149659 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45247 Archived-At: 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") ==> 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 EN:SiS(9)