Re: Using indent program as filter to automatically view read-only C files

[Harry Putnam]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Take a look at format.el, it has a machinery to filter a file through
> a program when Emacs visits the file.  That machinery was invented for
> a different purpose, but perhaps it is general enough to serve yours.
>
> Btw, Emacs itself can reindent, so one easy way og doing what you want
> is to copy the contents of the file into another buffer, set its major
> mode to C, and then reindent there.  If the buffer has no file name,
> you don't risk to overwrite the original files.

This may be a little off the wall but after looking at format.el I
could not tell if it can do something like format a log file when emacs
opens one.  Something like just formating each line to column 72 or
such.