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From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: one line big XML to multiline
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 16:06:31 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8bd5fa54-ef15-48c7-af03-135cb7db8fb7@n9g2000pbi.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3864.1341227814.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Jul 2, 4:16 am, Mihamina Rakotomandimby <miham...@rktmb.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I got a big one line XML file.
> I want to break the lines to make it more readable.
>
> Replacing "><" with "C-j" then indenting is the most obvious solution,
> but would you know a more elegant solution?
>
> I'm using Emacs 23 (FC17) with nXml or sgml-mode usable.

you can record a keyboard macro, save it, assign it a key. So, just
press one key, and the file is indented and well-formatted.

〈Emacs: Using Keyboard Macro to Record/Playback Keystrokes〉
http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_macro_example.html

to indent, just select all then 【Ctrl+Alt+\】.

or, this can be easily done by writing a elisp command.

 Xah


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-07-03 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.3864.1341227814.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-07-02 15:13 ` one line big XML to multiline John Bokma
2012-07-03 23:06 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2012-07-02 11:16 Mihamina Rakotomandimby
2012-07-02 11:51 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-07-05 22:46   ` Matt McClure

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