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Re: prepend a character to the lines in a region


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: prepend a character to the lines in a region
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:06:11 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> 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

There are many ways to do that, but the closest to your suggestion may be:

  C-M-% ^ RET > RET


        Stefan


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