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Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines
From: |
Christopher Dimech |
Subject: |
Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Nov 2020 12:29:45 +0100 |
Have selected a region, and called the command. However the region
remained unchanged.
> Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 at 12:10 PM
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 11:43:45AM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> >
> > I have a paragraph and want to add a string to the beginning of each line
> > after selecting
> > the paragraph region.
> >
> > GNU is an operating system that is free software—that is, it respects
> > users' freedom. The
> > GNU operating system consists of GNU packages (programs specifically
> > released by the GNU
> > Project) as well as free software released by third parties. The
> > development of GNU made
> > it possible to use a computer without software that would trample your
> > freedom.
> >
> > Example, passing ';; + ' as argument to a function to get
> >
> > ;; + GNU is an operating system that is free software—that is, it respects
> > users' freedom. The
> > ;; + GNU operating system consists of GNU packages (programs specifically
> > released by the GNU
> > ;; + Project) as well as free software released by third parties. The
> > development of GNU made
> > ;; + it possible to use a computer without software that would trample your
> > freedom.
>
> - Select the region
> - M-x query-replace-regexp "^" → ";; + "
> - Profit!
>
> Wrapping that up in a function is left as an exercise to the
> reader :-)
>
> Cheers
> -- t
>
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