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Re: prepend a character to the lines in a region
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David Kastrup |
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Re: prepend a character to the lines in a region |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Mar 2006 23:25:59 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@peoplepc.com> writes:
> If I want to respond to an email where (for whatever reason) the sender's
> text hasn't been quoted, I copy paste it into emacs and do a search
> replace with this regular expression:
>
> C-M-% \(.+\) RET >\1 RET
>
> This works but the region is repainted before each replacement. Is there a
> built in command that can accomplish this? M-; is almost right but it
> might not be if I had a defined syntax and I actually wanted to use it for
> commenting out a region.
C-x r t
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum