From: harven <harven@free.fr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: simple function to prepend a string to a file
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:10:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2bpqv4bhc.fsf@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5524.1239973304.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
ken <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:
> Often I want to put the string "<!-- -*- coding: utf-8; -*- -->\n" at
> the top of the current buffer. However, I don't want to lose my place
> (the point) or any defined region. Optimally, such a function would
> know the mode of the current buffer and enclose the string in the
> mode-appropriate comment characters. Is there such a function? If not
> how would one code it?
>
> Thanks for your solutions.
The following seems to work.
(defun my-header ()
"put a commented header at the beginning of the buffer"
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(beginning-of-buffer)
(let ((start (point)))
(insert "-*- coding: utf-8; -*-")
(comment-region start (point))
(newline))))
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2009-04-17 14:10 ` harven [this message]
2009-04-17 16:28 ` simple function to prepend a string to a file Johan Bockgård
2009-04-17 23:01 ` simple function to prepend a string to a file --> SOLUTION ken
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2009-04-18 10:49 ` harven
2009-04-18 15:25 ` Johan Bockgård
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2009-04-18 17:15 ` harven
2009-04-17 13:00 simple function to prepend a string to a file ken
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