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 17:27:31 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <412BCEE3.8080907@yahoo.com> References: <412B6422.1040601@yahoo.com> 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 1093390249 16907 80.91.224.253 (24 Aug 2004 23:30:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 23:30:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 25 01:30:43 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 1BzkkU-0000ax-00 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2004 01:30:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bzkp0-0006pT-A3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:35:22 -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: 15 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de /6kbQJ0YKGahuVMU1POEdwNM3hpt1EueGHO1IemAd0T7TNrbI= 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:124915 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:20264 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20264 Michael Slass wrote: > Doing this in emacs lisp has the advantage of starting emacs only > once, as opposed to once per file. Assuming you have a list of the > files you want to change, one file per line, each file with a full > path, this elisp will do what you want: Doing this in the shell has the advantage that it only requires about 3 lines using just 1 shell command (for, plus its do and done keywords) and the emacs command (plus its 6 options and arguments). That is a more efficient use of my time than writing 21 lines of approximately 30 lisp function and macro calls. -- Kevin Rodgers