How can I customize this repetive edit?

How can I customize this repetive edit?

[exits funnel]

Hello,

I have a text file which contains a coupld of hundred
lines which look like this:

>foo   EAL_FOO

I need them to look like this:

>  EAL_FOO="foo";

Note that '>' is not part of the line but included to
denote the beginning of the line (ie, the foo in the
first example is flush with the beginning of the line
while line in the second example starts with two
spaces.  Also note the EAL_ is fixed but foo can take
any value though the case of foo and FOO respectively
will always adhere to the pattern in the example.  

I really don't want to make all these changes by hand.
 I'm pretty new to EMACS but it seems this should be
doable (everything else is :) ).  If anyone could
point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate
it.

-exits

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Re: How can I customize this repetive edit?

[Chris McMahan]

Emacs macros would be good here. 

Just start recording a keyboard macro C-x (

Execute the keyboard commands to reformat your text

Stop the macro recording C-x )

Here's a BASIC macro that does what you want. 

(fset 'foo
   [?\C-  ?\M-f ?\C-w ?\C-e ?= ?\" ?\C-y ?\" ?\C-a ?\C-  ?\M-f ?\M-b ?\C-w ?\C-e ?\; ?\C-a ?\C-n])

Load this by placing your cursor after the closing ) above and typing C-x e

Then load your file, place the cursor on the first line of text, and
type M-x foo to execute the macro

- Chris


exits funnel <exitsfunnel@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a text file which contains a coupld of hundred
> lines which look like this:
> 
> >foo   EAL_FOO
> 
> I need them to look like this:
> 
> >  EAL_FOO="foo";
> 
> Note that '>' is not part of the line but included to
> denote the beginning of the line (ie, the foo in the
> first example is flush with the beginning of the line
> while line in the second example starts with two
> spaces.  Also note the EAL_ is fixed but foo can take
> any value though the case of foo and FOO respectively
> will always adhere to the pattern in the example.  
> 
> I really don't want to make all these changes by hand.
>  I'm pretty new to EMACS but it seems this should be
> doable (everything else is :) ).  If anyone could
> point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate
> it.
> 
> -exits
> 
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> Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
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Re: How can I customize this repetive edit?

[Johan Bockgård]

Chris McMahan <cmcmahan@thenumber1spelledout.net> writes:

>  [...] ?\C- ?\M-f ?\M-b ?\C-w [...]

`M-\' (`delete-horizontal-space')

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Johan Bockgård

Re: How can I customize this repetive edit?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I have a text file which contains a couple of hundred
> lines which look like this:

> >foo   EAL_FOO

> I need them to look like this:

> >  EAL_FOO="foo";

M-x query-replace-regexp RET
^\([a-z]+\) +EAL_\([A-Z]+\) RET
  EAL_\2="\1"; RET


-- Stefan

Re: How can I customize this repetive edit?

[Jeff]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:49:44 +0000, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> I have a text file which contains a couple of hundred
>> lines which look like this:
> 
>> >foo   EAL_FOO
> 
>> I need them to look like this:
> 
>> >  EAL_FOO="foo";
> 
> M-x query-replace-regexp RET
> ^\([a-z]+\) +EAL_\([A-Z]+\) RET
>   EAL_\2="\1"; RET
> 
> 
> -- Stefan

Stefan - that is really useful to know. Thanks. 

-Jeff