Re: automate Emacs beautifyer ?

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Bert Cuzeau wrote:
 > Under Windows (or Unix), is there a way to automate Emacs doing
 > only :
 > - open file
 > - VHDL - beautify - Buffer (C-c C-b)
 > - save file
 > - exit
 >
 > We have hundreds of files to "beautify" with VHDL-mode and it is a
 > chore doing this by hand.
 >
 > Ideally, emacs with command line parameters would suit me great...

Of course:

for file in *.vhdl; do
   # Long options for readability:
   emacs --batch --visit=$file \
         --funcall=vhdl-beautify-buffer --funcall=save-buffer
   # Short options for brevity:
   # emacs -batch $file -f vhdl-beautify-buffer -f save-buffer
done

See the "Command Line Arguments" section of the Emacs manual,
especially the "Initial Options" and "Action Arguments" subnodes.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers