jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) (08/24/87)
Ok, I'm gonna get a lot of comments from people saying: "Why do it *that* way? You could just..." I'd like to hear from those people too, but not on hackers_guild. Send the replies to me.. Hackers_guild has a fair SNR these days, let's not screw it up.. Question: I have some evil looking code (it's some of MIT's X code, if you must know) that is almost unreadable by my standards. I don't like CB's standards either.. However, with a few custom variable settings, GNU emacs's Electric-C mode formats things reasonably well. If I traipse through the code hitting tabs and otherwise making emacs look at the lines, it does a good job. BUT I DON'T WANNA HAVE TO DO THIS FOR THE ENTIRE FILE!! Is there some way I can say: "Hey! Emacs! Start up! Zzzzzzzzz.. (ok, we'll skip that part and pretend it's executing). Ok, I want you to read this file in.. zzz.. good. Now use your C-Mode rules and REFORMAT THAT BABY! Yeah! Party!" Eh? Is there any way? I sure wish there was a manual describing all the nandy-dandy lisp functions and hooks written to do buffer/window/etc manipulation. I could write a lisp loop that just "dirtied" each line somehow... Anyway, what do I do? Can this code be saved? Jordan Hubbard jkh@violet.berkeley.edu