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Re: Operate on each line in region


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: Operate on each line in region
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 19:44:18 -0400
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In article <02d45a30-ac9e-46a1-8f7b-1e3ce651de00@googlegroups.com>,
 Jacob Gerlach <jacobgerlach@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm having more trouble figuring this out that I expected.
> 
> I tried building a function around align-regexp:
> 
> (defun my-justify-equals (start end)
>   "Indents current region to justify equals signs"
>   (interactive 'r')
>   (align-regexp start end "\\([ \t]*\\)\\(.*\\)=" 1 nil nil))
> 
> But when I attempt to evaluate the defun I get 
> 
>     Invalid read syntax: ")"

You have the wrong type of quotes around the interactive string, it 
should be:

    (interactive "r")

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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