From: Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Adding `#' at each new line with text until the end of the file
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 18:05:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4r24iq3.fsf@merciadriluca-station.MERCIADRILUCA> (raw)
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Hi,
I have some personally-defined function:
==
(defun psig ()
"Insert the signature for a personal posting on a newsgroup, including a saying."
(interactive)
(goto-char (point-max))
(or (= (char-after (- (point) 1)) ?\n)
(newline 1))
(insert "-- \n")
(let ((saying ""))
(save-window-excursion
(find-file "~/Sayings")
(goto-char (point-min))
(search-forward "#")
(delete-char -1)
(setq fill-prefix nil)
(mark-paragraph)
(setq saying (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end)))
(exchange-point-and-mark)
(if (eobp) (goto-char (1+ (point-min))))
;(insert "#")
(save-buffer))
(insert saying)
))
==
The file ~/Sayings contains sayings, and, at the beginning, each line
with some saying was beginning with a #.
So, my sayings' file looked like:
==
#saying1
#saying2
#...
#sayingn
==
Nice, but my psig() function takes the `#' to tell me that the given
saying has already been used. As it looks for the following `#', it
takes the first line with `#' beginning it, that is, the first saying
which has not been already used before.
The problem is that, as I do not have *a lot* of sayings, I would like
Gnus to modify the sayings' file so it looks like at its beginning,
that is, with a `#' beginning each saying.
I tried
==
(defun fildi ()
(find-file "/~Sayings")
(goto-char (point-min))
; go to the first saying, and do the following until the end of the
; file is reached, for each line with some text on it:
(insert "#")
(save-buffer))
==
But I don't know how to translate my two lines of comments into real
ELisp code. Any idea about how I could achieve this?
Thanks.
- --
Merciadri Luca
See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
- --
Act today only, tomorrow is too late.
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next reply other threads:[~2010-05-17 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-17 16:05 Merciadri Luca [this message]
2010-05-17 18:26 ` Adding `#' at each new line with text until the end of the file Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-05-17 20:11 ` Merciadri Luca
[not found] ` <87zkzyjkcb.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com>
2010-05-18 10:09 ` Merciadri Luca
2010-05-18 12:06 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-05-18 16:47 ` Merciadri Luca
2010-05-18 20:27 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-05-19 16:08 ` Merciadri Luca
2010-05-20 13:18 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-05-20 18:09 ` Merciadri Luca
2010-05-20 19:05 ` Andreas Politz
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