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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: insert char. in first column.
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.162605.28657@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 28 Feb 90 16:26:05 GMT
References: <13714@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
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In-Reply-To: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)

In article <13714@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>, cwilson@NISC (Chan Wilson) writes:
| This has got to be simple, I just know it.  But how do you do it?
| 
| I want to be able to insert a character in the first column of a given
| region, whether it be a tab, a >, or whatnot.  How is this done?

Assuming you are GNU-Emacs-ing, since you didn't say...

First, define your region (set-mark-command, or whatever), then...
C-x n (narrow-to-region)
M-< (beginning-of-buffer)
M-x replace-regexp RET ^ RET tab-or->-or-whatnot RET
C-x w (widen)

With the appropriate conversions to elisp, you can do it from within a
function.

Just another Emacs hacker,
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