Re: command-line emacs tops out at 16384?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Harry Putnam wrote:

> Kevin,  I haven't been following here but this caught my attention as
>   a potentially usefull piece of command line syntax.  Not sure what
>   the application here was supposed to be.   Can it be aimed at an
>   existing file that is unformatted and the end result will be that
>   it is formatted and saved?


That's the basic idea, yes.


>   If so, how might that be made to handle a lisp file?
>
> I tried: 
> emacs -q -no-site-file -batch  \
>  "/tmp/my_gnus.el" -f lisp-mode  \
>  -eval '(indent-region (point-min) (point-max) nil)' \
>   -f save-buffer


I think you mean emacs-lisp-mode instead of lisp-mode (which shouldn't be
necessary, given the .el extension and the default value of auto-mode-alist).

Also, -batch already implies -q.


> > > > OUTPUT
> (No changes need to be saved)
>
> And the file is unchanged.  See attached file for the code I ran it
> against.

Maybe it's because the file is actually called my_gnus_init.el (not my_gnus.el).

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