Replacing selected text in Emacs with one character

Question

In Vim, I can do this trick on a line with the words "People":

yy p Shift-v r +

It will produce a set of lines that like this:

People

++++++

I would like to be able to reproduce this in Emacs if possible.

Many/most people on this site will not understand the Vim commands you cite. Please explain what they do. — Dan, Jan 16 '19 at 14:55
You might try evil-mode: https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil — Lorem Ipsum, Jan 16 '19 at 15:34
yy is copy a line, p is paste it below, shift-v is select the pasted line, r is replace the selected text with + — Edman, Jan 16 '19 at 18:35

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 16 '19 at 14:51

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Use C-M-% (query-replace-regexp) to replace the pattern . with + in the region (In Emacs regexp, . matches any characters except newline).

edited Jan 16 '19 at 14:51

answered Jan 16 '19 at 14:46

xuchunyang

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