From: Lee Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Subject: Re: Searching for lines longer than x characters possible?
Date: 12 Nov 2002 17:44:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3of8ug2kz.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vfr8dsxr9j.fsf@rpc71.cs.man.ac.uk
>>>>> "Phillip" == Phillip Lord <p.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
>>>>> "David" == David List <david@davidlist.dk> writes:
David> I would like to go through some program source files before
David> converting them to ps, to check for lines longer than, for
David> instance, 80 characters, so that I don't get strange
David> looking ps files.
David> Is this possible with emacs?
Doesn't 'grep' do this already?
grep '.\{80\}' ~/archive/viag.tex
Use the "-l" flag if you only want the filenames, not file contents.
Moreover, you can invoke grep from within Emacs: M-x grep
--
Lee Sau Dan 李守敦(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ)
E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-12 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-08 16:03 Searching for lines longer than x characters possible? David List
2002-11-08 16:52 ` Barry Margolin
2002-11-08 17:12 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2002-11-08 17:28 ` Alex Schroeder
2002-11-09 10:20 ` David List
2002-11-11 11:47 ` Phillip Lord
2002-11-12 16:44 ` Lee Sau Dan [this message]
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2002-11-08 18:50 Bingham, Jay
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