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From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Can I use Emacs as pipe-thru formatter?
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 09:32:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F2FCE0A.9090708@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bgoebt$gf0$1@reader1.panix.com

Irving Kimura wrote:

> Since, under Unix at least, it's not too difficult for a Perl script
> to pipe a string through an external program, one possible way to
> do what I want to do would be to write an "Emacs pipe" that somehow
> uses javascript-mode.el to pretty print its stdin and spits the
> results to stdout:
> 
>   % cat ugly.js | emacs_js_pretty_printer > pretty.js

Try this:


emacs --batch \
	ugly.js \
	-f javascript-mode \
	--eval '(indent-region (point-min) (point-max) nil)' \
	--eval '(write-file "pretty.js")'

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-05 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-05 14:18 Can I use Emacs as pipe-thru formatter? Irving Kimura
2003-08-05 15:00 ` Barry Margolin
2003-08-05 16:21   ` Oliver Scholz
2003-08-05 15:32 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]

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