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From: Marvin Doyley <marvinpas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: text to plain list
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 18:23:37 -0400
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Thanks Erick for introducing me to emacs macros
Cheers
M

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On Jun 22, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Eric Schulte <eric.schulte@gmx.com> wrote:

> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
>
>> Marvin Doyley <marvinpas@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