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From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 18:20:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-fade1d0b-212f-4892-b754-55c821f66708-1605115201052@3c-app-mailcom-bs05> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9ecdty8.fsf@web.de>

Have put the following, bet the insert is not progressing to the
last line of the selected region.  I started my selected region
on the first character of 'RFrec-field-nwltok' and ended my
selected region on the last character of 'insert'.

>
> (defun RFrec-field-nwltok (beg end nwltok)
>    "rec-field-nwltok adds a newline token for a recutils field."
>    (interactive
>       (list (region-beginning)
>             (region-end)
>             (read-string "rec-field-nwltok: " nil nil ";; + ") ))
>    (save-excursion
>       (let (rz lpos)
>          (setq rz (region-end))
>          (goto-char (region-beginning))
>          (beginning-of-line)
>
>          (while (and (< (point) rz)
>                      (not (eobp)))
>             (insert nwltok)
>             (forward-line 1)) )
>       (deactivate-mark) ))
>

> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 at 12:16 PM
> From: "Michael Heerdegen" <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines
>
> <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
>
> > But watch out: the replacement string (confusingly called `regex' here,
> > others have already pointed that out) might contain special sequences
> > (e.g. "\\&") which have a meaning in this context.
>
> Indeed, an important objection.
>
> I would suggest to avoid using any query-replace at all and rather use
> something like
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (save-excursion
>   (while (and (<= (point) end)
>               (not (eobp)))
>     (insert my-string)
>     (forward-line +1))
>   (deactivate-mark))
> #+end_src
>
> > Cheers
>
> Ebenso!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael.
>
>
>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-11 17:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-10 10:43 Adding String to Beginning of Lines Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 11:10 ` tomas
2020-11-10 11:19   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 11:29   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 11:54     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 11:58       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 12:07         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 12:03       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 12:16         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 13:40           ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 14:06             ` Jean Louis
2020-11-10 14:29               ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 19:12                 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-10 19:42                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 21:22                     ` Jean Louis
2020-11-11 10:59                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-17 16:06                         ` Jean Louis
2020-11-17 16:28                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 22:31                     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-10 23:00                       ` Drew Adams
2020-11-11 21:37                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 14:16             ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 14:38               ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 14:49                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 17:52                   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 18:03                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 18:25                       ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 18:49                         ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 18:56                           ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 19:02                             ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 19:29                               ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 20:07                                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 22:45             ` tomas
2020-11-11 11:16               ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-11 13:22                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-11 13:56                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-11 14:07                   ` tomas
2020-11-11 14:49                     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-11 17:20                 ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2020-11-11 18:12                   ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-11 18:25                     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-11 18:35                     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-10 14:03         ` Jean Louis
2020-11-10 11:42 ` Michael Heerdegen
2020-11-10 18:47   ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2020-11-12 19:01 ` Dante Catalfamo
2020-11-14 22:09   ` Jamie Beardslee
2020-11-14 23:17     ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-14 23:39       ` Jamie Beardslee
2020-11-15  9:12       ` tomas

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