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Re: [O] text to plain list
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Eric Schulte |
Subject: |
Re: [O] text to plain list |
Date: |
Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:06:52 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) |
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