| ;;;; hacks.el --- a few functions to help me work on the manual | |
| ;;;; Jim Blandy <[email protected]> --- October 1998 | |
| (defun jh-exemplify-region (start end) | |
| (interactive "r") | |
| (save-excursion | |
| (save-restriction | |
| (narrow-to-region start end) | |
| ;; Texinfo doesn't handle tabs well. | |
| (untabify (point-min) (point-max)) | |
| ;; Quote any characters special to texinfo. | |
| (goto-char (point-min)) | |
| (while (re-search-forward "[{}@]" nil t) | |
| (replace-match "@\\&"))))) | |