Re: Emacs Function to add dashes to leading spaces in a Selected Region

[Stephen Berman]

On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 00:34:16 +0100 Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> wrote:

> I need an Emacs Function to add dashes to leading spaces in a Selected Region.
> Require help to do this thing.

(defun space-to-dash (beg end)
  "Replace spaces by dashes in region."
  (interactive "r")
  (goto-char beg)
  (while (< (point) end)
    (when (looking-at "^ +")
      (let ((rep (make-string (length (match-string 0)) ?-)))
        (replace-match rep)))
    (forward-line)))

Steve Berman