From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris McMahan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How can I customize this repetive edit? Date: 22 Jan 2004 16:12:38 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074806269 32033 80.91.224.253 (22 Jan 2004 21:17:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:17:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 22 22:17:41 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AjmCq-0005dy-00 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:17:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AjmC3-0004Uw-29 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:16:51 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 62 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1074805965 9287 166.84.1.2 (22 Jan 2004 21:12:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 21:12:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120341 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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:16285 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16285 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 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 > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ > > -- (. .) =ooO=(_)=Ooo======================== Chris McMahan | cmcmahan-at-one.net ====================================