Re: How can I customize this repetive edit?

[Chris McMahan <cmcmahan@thenumber1spelledout.net>]

Emacs macros would be good here. 

Just start recording a keyboard macro C-x (

Execute the keyboard commands to reformat your text

Stop the macro recording C-x )

Here's a BASIC macro that does what you want. 

(fset 'foo
   [?\C-  ?\M-f ?\C-w ?\C-e ?= ?\" ?\C-y ?\" ?\C-a ?\C-  ?\M-f ?\M-b ?\C-w ?\C-e ?\; ?\C-a ?\C-n])

Load this by placing your cursor after the closing ) above and typing C-x e

Then load your file, place the cursor on the first line of text, and
type M-x foo to execute the macro

- Chris


exits funnel <exitsfunnel@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a text file which contains a coupld of hundred
> lines which look like this:
> 
> >foo   EAL_FOO
> 
> I need them to look like this:
> 
> >  EAL_FOO="foo";
> 
> Note that '>' is not part of the line but included to
> denote the beginning of the line (ie, the foo in the
> first example is flush with the beginning of the line
> while line in the second example starts with two
> spaces.  Also note the EAL_ is fixed but foo can take
> any value though the case of foo and FOO respectively
> will always adhere to the pattern in the example.  
> 
> I really don't want to make all these changes by hand.
>  I'm pretty new to EMACS but it seems this should be
> doable (everything else is :) ).  If anyone could
> point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate
> it.
> 
> -exits
> 
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