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Re: [O] text to plain list
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Marvin Doyley |
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Re: [O] text to plain list |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:23:37 -0400 |
Thanks Erick for introducing me to emacs macros
Cheers
M
Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 22, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Eric Schulte <address@hidden> wrote:
> Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Marvin Doyley <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> Is there quick method for converting a bunch of text to plain list ?
>>>
>>
>> Something like
>>
>> sed 's/^/- /' in.txt > out.txt
>>
>> perhaps? If that's not what you mean, what do you mean?
>>
>
> I find Emacs Macros work very well for this.
>
> 1) position the cursor at the front of the first line
> 2) C-x ( to start recording a macro
> 3) manually turn this item into a list
> 4) position the cursor at the front of the next line
> 5) C-x ) to finish recording a macro
> 6) X-e to run the macro on the second item
>
> after that you may continue pressing "e" to re-run the macro, or run the
> macro any number of times with a numeric prefix argument. This does
> however require some regularity in your list items.
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Eric Schulte
> http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte