Re: prepend a character to the lines in a region

[David Kastrup]

"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