Re: Yet another rookie question replace-regexp

[Michael Cadilhac]

"billy" <bp1497@att.com> writes:

> I know how to use this on a whole file. but how can I make this work on
> a region?
> If I want to comment out a 50 lines of 10k I don't want to comment out
> each line one at a time.  I would like to do C-space bar them move
> below the last line I want to effect, the do the replace-regexp.  But
> his does the whole file.  I pass it  ^ / #

,----[ C-h f replace-string RET ]
| replace-string is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `replace.el'.
| (replace-string from-string to-string &optional delimited start end)
| 
| Replace occurrences of from-string with to-string.
| [...]
| In Transient Mark mode, if the mark is active, operate on the contents
| of the region.  Otherwise, operate from point to the end of the buffer.
| [...]
| 
| [back]
`----

  In other words, you just have to activate the Transient Mark while
  selecting your region.

  In Emacs CVS it's done temporarily by hitting C-space twice.

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