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From: wilkes@mips.COM (John Wilkes)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Need mlisp for "prefix-region"
Message-ID: <1670@electron.mips.COM>
Date: 24 Feb 88 18:36:25 GMT
References: <8802232111.AA14048@icst-cmr.arpa.ARPA>
Reply-To: wilkes@electron.UUCP (John Wilkes)
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <8802232111.AA14048@icst-cmr.arpa.ARPA> rbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>
>   From: Naim Abdullah <nucsrl!naim@ODDJOB.UCHICAGO.EDU>
>
>   Mg has a nice function
>   called "prefix-region" to do that but surprisingly I could not
...
>^U ESC | sed 's/^/>/' RET. Note also the simpler regexp.

No need to pipe the region to sed...  Try this:

query-replace-regexp:
Replace some things after point matching REGEXP with TO-STRING.
As each match is found, the user must type a character saying
what to do with it.  For directions, type C-h at that time.

John
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