Re: Is buffer size fixed in batch mode?

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Brian Elmegaard <brian@rkspeed-rugby.dk> writes:

> bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:
>
>> It depends on the function. Maybe you could tell us in more details
>> what you are trying to do?
>
> I have auto-generated xml and I want to convert it to latex, so I do
> (goto-char 1) 
> and a lot of 
> (save-excursion
>   (while (search-forward "<foo>" nil t)
>     (replace-match "\\foo[bar]{baz}" nil t))
>   )
>
> (save-excursion
>   (while (re-search-forward "<foobar>\\(.*\\)</foobar>" nil t)
>     (replace-match "\\\\foobar{\\1}" nil nil))
>   )
>
> At the end I did several replaces of multiple spaces, end of line
> spaces, and so on.
>
> If I open the xml in a running emacs it works fine, but if I did it
> with a batch it part of the tex disappeared in the output. 
>
> The I decided to move the cleanup of multiple spaces and so on to the
> beginning of the code and it runs fine.
>
> Is this to be expected?

You likely did something wrong.

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