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Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines


From: H. Dieter Wilhelm
Subject: Re: Adding String to Beginning of Lines
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:47:29 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux)

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes:
>
>> I have a paragraph and want to add a string to the beginning of each
>> line after selecting the paragraph region.
>
> Alternatively, you can use `string-rectangle' when you select an
> appropriate rectangle (of width zero in this case) instead of the
> paragraph.

Excellent suggestion, in short: Select a region and C-x r t

and you're even getting visual feedback what is replaced ! :-)

    Dieter

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Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Zwingenberg, Germany



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