How to put marked lines in parenthesis?

Marco Torskyj

Hi,
how can i put marked lines in parenthesis?

For example:

1: kjhdfgjhgjfkdjhg dsfkjhg sdkjh gf
2: kfjgljjfgkf flf gli f fsljh f
3: khfkjhkjhsdkjhfjfkjhf fjfj wer erwer
4: nmdfss sjh ewr s dfjh f skjh f

now I select (mark) line 2 and 3 and the solution should look like this:

1: kjhdfgjhgjfkdjhg dsfkjhg sdkjh gf
(2: kfjgljjfgkf flf gli f fsljh f)
(3: khfkjhkjhsdkjhfjfkjhf fjfj wer erwer)
4: nmdfss sjh ewr s dfjh f skjh f

how can I achieve that? :)

Claudia Frank

@Marco-Torskyj

if this is a one time job use find and replace dialog with regular expression
and in selection checked. If you need to do this over and over again, record
a macro and save it. I will describe the steps for the macro as it contains the step
for find/replace as well.

Select the lines you want to modify
press record macro
press ctrl+h (to open the replace dialog)
put the following into the find inputbox
```
  ^(.*)$
```
put the following into the replace inputbox
```
  $\1$
```
check box in selection
check box Regular expression
press replace all
press save macro
and give it a meaningful name.
It appears now under the macro menu

Cheers
Claudia

Marco Torskyj

Thank you very much!!!
;)