[ From Geany general discussion list (Ross McKay) on Saturday, March 27, 2010 ]

> Please help out a dope. I know I've done this before, many times, and
> not had a problem, but today... not so much. 

> Geany built from r4788, Fedora 11 x86-64.

> I want to prefix a bunch of lines with something, e.g. spaces or a tab
> or, well, anything. Let's say X for the sake of picking an easy example.

> Search: ^
> Replace: X
> Use regular expressions: ticked

I used :

Search for:  ^(.)
Replace with: X\1
Use regular expressions: Enabled

and ...

example
example
example

was replaced by:

Xexample
Xexample
Xexample

Is that what you're looking for?
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