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[hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Steven T. Hatton)]

I have always felt as though anybody who honestly claims the moniker of
Unix/GNU/Linux hacker is proficient with (X)emacs.  I am aspiring to
gain at least the pretense of such proficiency.

I started looking at this web page
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/nss-guidelines.html
in different editors.  I don't like the layout of the page because I
can't get it to print nicely.  One feature of code I value is
indentation.  The code which I got when I saved was not indented, and it
is rather complex.  I finally decided Xemacs was to tool to use.  Indeed
it does have some very nice html parsing capabilities.

I came to realize it would be nice to be able to run a "macro" which
would go through each line of code performing an operation on that
code.  I tried to do this with a plain macro, and it didn't seem
possible.  Sure, I could just tell it to repeat for as many times as
there are lines.  I am interested in doing this more more
programmatically.  This entails the use of Lisp, if I understand
correctly.  I haven't the foggiest idea of how to get started on this
project.  I don't want to learn an entire programming language today.  I
just want enough grounding to iterate through a text file processing
each line.

Does anybody know how to do this?

TIA,

Steve


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