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auto-indenting C++ files upon saving
From: |
Art Werschulz |
Subject: |
auto-indenting C++ files upon saving |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Feb 2010 11:23:42 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi.
I am trying to teach my students that they should auto-indent their C++
files before saving, by issuing the commands
C-x h M-C-\
i.e.,
(mark-whole-buffer)
(indent-region)
However, they haven't trained their "muscle memory" to do this, i.e., to
automatically type the sequence
C-x M-C-\ C-x C-s
How can this be automated, so that a file gets auto-indented whenever
it's saved?
I thinking of something along the lines of
(setq auto-save-hook
(lambda
(mark-whole-region)
(indent-region)))
but this didn't seem to work.
Actually, I'd only want this to work in some situations, e.g., a file
whose name matches a certain pattern. Said pattern would be stored in
some variable.
My emacs-lisp is very weak. Suggestions? Thanks!
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