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Re: "C-a" the first character in each line?
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weber |
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Re: "C-a" the first character in each line? |
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Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:59:37 -0000 |
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On Jun 24, 10:20 am, Nikos Apostolakis <nikos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello group,
>
> in the scratch buffer I did
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> -----------------
> (while (search-forward-regexp "^\\(.\\)" nil t)
> (replace-match "\% \1"))
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> laa
> moo
> nii
> -----------------
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> I expected
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> %
> % laa
> % moo
> % nii
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> but isnstead I get
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> % ^A
> % ^Aaa
> % ^Aoo
> % ^Aii
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> where ^A stands for the character "C-a".
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> What am I missing?
>
> TIA,
> Nikos
Dunno why, but \\1 instead of \1 solves it.
Or alternatively:
(while (search-forward-regexp "^\\(.\\)" nil t)
(replace-match (concat "% "(match-string 1))))
which looks better to me...
HTH,
weber