Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes: > Marvin Doyley <marvin...@gmail.com> 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
