From: Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to do a massive unfill paragraph operation over several hundred files?
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 13:32:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8636ts4jz3.fsf@zoho.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1463.1538170475.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Gerald Wildgruber wrote:
> MY QUESTION: What would be a good way to
> AUTOMATE such an unfill operation, removing all
> line breaks from all paragraphs over a large
> number of files?
Script to insert a string into files
1, 2, and 3:
#! /bin/zsh
local script=do-this.el
emacs -Q --batch --script $script 1 2 3
Elisp to do it:
;; do-this.el
(dolist (f argv)
(find-file f)
(insert "Sail Ho!") ; do your thing here
(save-buffer) )
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2018-09-29 11:32 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2018-09-29 12:04 ` history of argv (was: Re: How to do a massive unfill paragraph operation over several hundred files?) Emanuel Berg
2018-09-29 12:44 ` Skip Montanaro
2018-09-29 23:20 ` John Yates
[not found] ` <mailman.1503.1538263274.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-30 18:20 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.1481.1538225108.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-29 15:14 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-29 18:07 ` Barry Margolin
2018-09-29 21:20 ` James K. Lowden
2018-09-30 19:47 ` How to do a massive unfill paragraph operation over several hundred files? Gerald Wildgruber
[not found] ` <mailman.1577.1538336869.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-30 20:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-10-01 5:48 ` Gerald Wildgruber
[not found] ` <mailman.1589.1538372941.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-01 9:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-10-01 14:37 ` Gerald Wildgruber
2018-10-01 15:21 ` Robert Pluim
2018-10-02 12:11 ` Gerald Wildgruber
2018-10-02 15:37 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-10-03 10:11 ` Gerald Wildgruber
2018-10-03 23:52 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-10-08 5:42 ` Gerald Wildgruber
[not found] ` <mailman.1666.1538561477.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-03 14:12 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.1650.1538482287.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-02 15:11 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.1626.1538404685.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-01 15:12 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-28 8:16 Gerald Wildgruber
2018-09-29 2:04 ` ken
[not found] ` <mailman.1466.1538186663.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-09-29 11:34 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-09-30 5:10 ` Van L
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