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Re: Emacs as a command line tool
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Tue, 17 Feb 2004 06:14:18 -0500 |
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David Rasmussen wrote:
> Is it possible to use the many emacs tools from the command line?
>
> Specifically, I would like to do untabify on several files. I am sure
> that it can be done easily from within emacs. But it would still be
> useful if I could just do something like
>
> emacs -e untabify *.cpp
>
> Is it possible?
>
> /David
Assuming you're on Linux or unix, why not try expand on the command line?
That converts tabs to spaces. To convert spaces to tabs use unexpand.
--Rod
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Re: Emacs as a command line tool, Floyd Davidson, 2004/02/17