[OS X Emacs] Issue with emacs on the command line
Marc Shapiro -- at work
marc.shapiro at acm.org
Thu Mar 8 11:47:25 EST 2018
Hi, I wish to use Emacs on the command line. The file fixbbl.el contains the definition of interactive function "fixbbl" that does some complex editing. I tested it with an interactive Emacs with no problems.
I run the following command line (on MacOS 10.13.3):
/usr/bin/emacs -batch -q -l fixbbl.el -f fixbbl -f save-buffer main.bbl
and it responds
(No changes need to be saved)
Indeed, unfortunately, the file is has not been changed. If I run interactively (i.e., without the "-batch" flag) I can see that indeed fixbbl.el has been loaded and fixbbl is defined, but has not been called; however "save-buffer" has been called, as evidenced by the response.
Any idea what is wrong, or how to debug?
I am appending a stripped-down version of fixbbl.el and of main.bbl in case that helps.
Marc
---- fixbbl.el ----
(defun fixbbl ()
(interactive)
(save-excursion
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (re-search-forward "\\\\urldef\\\\tempurl%
\\\\url{\\([^{}]+\\)}
\\\\showDOI{\\\\tempurl}
" nil t nil)
(replace-match "\\\\showDOI{\\1}"))
))
-------------------
----- main.bbl ----
\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Ahamad, Neiger, Burns, Kohli, and
Hutto}{Ahamad et~al\mbox{.}}{1995}]%
{syn:mat:1025}
\bibfield{author}{\bibinfo{person}{Mustaque Ahamad}, \bibinfo{person}{Gil
Neiger}, \bibinfo{person}{James~E. Burns}, \bibinfo{person}{Prince Kohli},
{and} \bibinfo{person}{Phillip~W. Hutto}.} \bibinfo{year}{1995}\natexlab{}.
\newblock \showarticletitle{Causal memory: definitions, implementation, and
programming}.
\newblock \bibinfo{journal}{\emph{Distributed Computing}} \bibinfo{volume}{9},
\bibinfo{number}{1} (\bibinfo{date}{March} \bibinfo{year}{1995}),
\bibinfo{pages}{37--49}.
\newblock
\urldef\tempurl%
\url{https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01784241}
\showDOI{\tempurl}
------
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