Re: adding some intelligence to save

[Eduard Wiebe <usenet@pusto.de>]

Nigel Noldsworth <noldsworth@googlemail.com> writes:

> Hello there,
>
> I use emacs for hardware design. Everytime, before I save my work with
> Ctrl-x-s I do :
> * beautify the vhdl code with ( Ctrl-c Ctrl-b)
> * highlight the text in the buffer ( Ctrl-x-h)
> * untabify it
>
> Can anyone tell me how I can automate this into "Ctrl-x-s" please,

Put following lines in your .emacs file:

(defun my-vhdl-write-file-hook ()
  (interactive)
  (when (eq major-mode 'vhdl-mode)
    (vhdl-beautify-buffer)
    (untabify (point-min) (point-max))))

(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'my-vhdl-write-file-hook)

> I'm not a software engineer .

Nobody is perfect. ;-)

-- 
Eduard Wiebe