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Re: Running emacs lisp programs from command line or script
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Tim Heaney |
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Re: Running emacs lisp programs from command line or script |
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Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:17:46 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Rational FORTRAN, linux) |
Ryan Newton <newton@ai.mit.edu> writes:
>
> If I want to make a command line invokable script to, say, convert
> emacs enriched text documents to plain ones, how do I do it? I want
> emacs to start up, open said document, save it in plain text mode.
> Easy to write the emacs lisp code, but how do I call it from the
> command line. What's the "batch" mode for emacs?
Batch. You can just run something like
emacs -batch -l elispfile -f function inputfile
from the command line. Or make your Emacs Lisp file executable and try
the sesquicolon
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2002-08/msg00229.html
I hope this helps,
Tim