From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: automate Emacs beautifyer ? Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:52:02 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <412B6422.1040601@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1093363099 16913 80.91.224.253 (24 Aug 2004 15:58:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 15:58:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 24 17:58:15 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bzdgd-0004xn-00 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 17:58:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bzdl8-0006dr-S0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 12:02:54 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de X22opQFhd46wYNZSMI4S7AMq6ufGJwjD/hL+CVXy+cJdjjN+s= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124910 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20258 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20258 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