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From: rbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Need mlisp for "prefix-region"
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Date: 23 Feb 88 21:11:08 GMT
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   From: Naim Abdullah <nucsrl!naim@ODDJOB.UCHICAGO.EDU>

   Mg has a nice function
   called "prefix-region" to do that but surprisingly I could not
   find an equivalent in GnuEmacs 18.48. So when I am running GnuEmacs,
   I have to pipe the region through a "sed s/./>&/p", yank it
   out of the other window and paste it into my buffer and kill
   the old region.

Not really. The function `shell-command-on-region', when given a prefix
arg, replaces the region with the command output. So you can type
^U ESC | sed 's/^/>/' RET. Note also the simpler regexp.

   Naim Abdullah		Dept. of EECS,	 Northwestern University
   Internet: naim@eecs.nwu.edu	 Uucp: {ihnp4, chinet, gargoyle}!nucsrl!naim

	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	<rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>
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