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Re: How can I customize this repetive edit?
From: |
Chris McMahan |
Subject: |
Re: How can I customize this repetive edit? |
Date: |
22 Jan 2004 16:12:38 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
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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