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Re: simple function to prepend a string to a file
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harven |
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Re: simple function to prepend a string to a file |
Date: |
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:10:39 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (darwin) |
ken <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:
> Often I want to put the string "<!-- -*- coding: utf-8; -*- -->\n" at
> the top of the current buffer. However, I don't want to lose my place
> (the point) or any defined region. Optimally, such a function would
> know the mode of the current buffer and enclose the string in the
> mode-appropriate comment characters. Is there such a function? If not
> how would one code it?
>
> Thanks for your solutions.
The following seems to work.
(defun my-header ()
"put a commented header at the beginning of the buffer"
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(beginning-of-buffer)
(let ((start (point)))
(insert "-*- coding: utf-8; -*-")
(comment-region start (point))
(newline))))