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Subject: Re: text to plain list
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:06:52 -0600
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Cc: Marvin Doyley <marvinpas@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org

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.

Best,

--=20
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte