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<span style=" font-family:'arial'; font-size: 9pt; color: #008080;"><i>[ From Geany general discussion list (Ross McKay) on Saturday, March 27, 2010 ]<br>
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<span style=" font-size: 9pt; color: #000080;"><i>> Please help out a dope. I know I've done this before, many times, and<br>
> not had a problem, but today... not so much. <br>
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<span style=" font-size: 9pt; color: #000080;"><i>> Geany built from r4788, Fedora 11 x86-64.<br>
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<span style=" font-size: 9pt; color: #000080;"><i>> I want to prefix a bunch of lines with something, e.g. spaces or a tab<br>
> or, well, anything. Let's say X for the sake of picking an easy example.<br>
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<span style=" font-size: 9pt; color: #000080;"><i>> Search: ^<br>
> Replace: X<br>
> Use regular expressions: ticked<br>
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I used :<br>
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Search for: ^(.)<br>
Replace with: X\1<br>
Use regular expressions: Enabled<br>
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and ...<br>
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example<br>
example<br>
example<br>
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was replaced by:<br>
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Xexample<br>
Xexample<br>
Xexample<br>
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Is that what you're looking for?<br>
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