Thanks Erick for introducing me to emacs macros Cheers M Sent from my iPhone
On Jun 22, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Eric Schulte <eric.schu...@gmx.com> wrote: > 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
