'Mash <mash...@toshine.net> writes: > Morning, > > I just want to know if there is there exists a 'tidy' module/command > that can be run on a file to tidy it? > > I often find myself going back and adding extra line breaks and > padding, and wondering if there exists something that can do this for > me? >
While this doesn't exist currently, it should be fairly easy to implement a set of rules which operate over the parsed file representation generated by org-element. This may be used to convert an Org-mode buffer into an elisp list, manipulate the list, and then insert the results as text back into a new buffer. The code could look something like the following ;; -*- emacs-lisp -*- (let ((buf (org-element-parse-buffer))) ;; convert current buffer to ELisp (dolist (rule cleanup-rules) ;; run cleanup transformations on the buffer (setq buf (funcall rule buf))) (delete-region (point-min) (point-max)) ;; replace the buffer contents (insert (org-element-interpret-data buf))) ;; with the cleaned results The only catch would be deciding what to add to the cleanup-rules. Also, since Org-mode is plain text, I bet a couple of lines of sed or perl could get you most of the way to a clean buffer. Best, -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte