From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com>
Cc: Marvin Doyley <marvinpas@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: text to plain list
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 17:39:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6498.1340401150@alphaville> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com> of "Fri\, 22 Jun 2012 10\:06\:52 MDT." <87ehp7e3fn.fsf@gmx.com>
Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com> wrote:
> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
>
> > Marvin Doyley <marvinpas@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi there,
> >>=20
> >> Is there quick method for converting a bunch of text to plain list ?=C2=
> =A0
> >>=20
> >
> > 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.
>
Yes, there are many methods (both emacs and otherwise; and in the event,
William Léchelle's suggestion of C-u C-c - was what Marvin was looking
for): my question was more to try to elicit what the problem was
exactly, rather than as a solution. [fn:1]
Nick
Footnotes:
[fn:1] ... although it is good to remind oneself once in a while that
org files are just text, so one is not limited to emacs in order
to manipulate them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-22 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-22 20:42 text to plain list Marvin Doyley
2012-06-22 20:59 ` William LÉCHELLE
2012-06-22 21:02 ` Nick Dokos
2012-06-22 16:06 ` Eric Schulte
2012-06-22 21:39 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2012-06-22 22:23 ` Marvin Doyley
2012-06-22 21:14 ` Marvin Doyley
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