From: "Roodwriter@core.com" <Roodwriter@core.com>
Subject: Re: Emacs as a command line tool
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 06:14:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1033tptqvoesicc@corp.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c0sr8r$hel$3@news.net.uni-c.dk
David Rasmussen wrote:
> Is it possible to use the many emacs tools from the command line?
>
> Specifically, I would like to do untabify on several files. I am sure
> that it can be done easily from within emacs. But it would still be
> useful if I could just do something like
>
> emacs -e untabify *.cpp
>
> Is it possible?
>
> /David
Assuming you're on Linux or unix, why not try expand on the command line?
That converts tabs to spaces. To convert spaces to tabs use unexpand.
--Rod
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-17 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-17 10:54 Emacs as a command line tool David Rasmussen
2004-02-17 10:57 ` Billy O'Connor
2004-02-17 11:08 ` David Rasmussen
2004-02-17 15:16 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-02-17 16:02 ` David Rasmussen
2004-02-17 17:06 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-02-19 0:29 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-02-17 11:14 ` Roodwriter [this message]
2004-02-17 11:19 ` David Rasmussen
2004-02-17 11:46 ` Joakim Hove
2004-02-17 12:06 ` David Rasmussen
2004-02-17 13:20 ` expand tabs in a shell Bruce Ingalls
2004-02-17 17:24 ` Bruce Ingalls
2004-02-19 7:01 ` Emacs as a command line tool Roodwriter
2004-02-17 13:35 ` Floyd Davidson
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