From: Tim Heaney <theaney@cablespeed.com>
Subject: Re: Running emacs lisp programs from command line or script
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:17:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87brqfx4hh.fsf@mrbun.watterson> (raw)
In-Reply-To: br8uei$1vjb$1@news.wplus.net
Ryan Newton <newton@ai.mit.edu> writes:
>
> If I want to make a command line invokable script to, say, convert
> emacs enriched text documents to plain ones, how do I do it? I want
> emacs to start up, open said document, save it in plain text mode.
> Easy to write the emacs lisp code, but how do I call it from the
> command line. What's the "batch" mode for emacs?
Batch. You can just run something like
emacs -batch -l elispfile -f function inputfile
from the command line. Or make your Emacs Lisp file executable and try
the sesquicolon
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2002-08/msg00229.html
I hope this helps,
Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-11 6:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-11 1:13 Running emacs lisp programs from command line or script Ryan Newton
2003-12-11 5:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-11 6:17 ` Tim Heaney [this message]
2003-12-11 17:52 ` Kevin Rodgers
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