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| <h4 class="subsection" id="Batch-Formatting-1">20.1.4 Batch Formatting</h4> |
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| <p>You can format Texinfo files for Info using <code class="code">batch-texinfo-format</code> |
| and Emacs batch mode. You can run Emacs in batch mode from any shell, |
| including a shell inside of Emacs. (See <a data-manual="emacs" href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Initial-Options.html#Initial-Options">Initial Options</a> in <cite class="cite">The GNU Emacs Manual</cite>.) |
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| <p>Here is a shell command to format all the files that end in |
| <samp class="file">.texinfo</samp> in the current directory: |
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| <pre class="example-preformatted">emacs -batch -funcall batch-texinfo-format *.texinfo |
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| <p>Emacs processes all the files listed on the command line, even if an |
| error occurs while attempting to format some of them. |
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| <p>Run <code class="code">batch-texinfo-format</code> only with Emacs in batch mode as shown; |
| it is not interactive. It kills the batch mode Emacs on completion. |
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| <p><code class="code">batch-texinfo-format</code> is convenient if you lack <code class="code">makeinfo</code> |
| and want to format several Texinfo files at once. When you use Batch |
| mode, you create a new Emacs process. This frees your current Emacs, so |
| you can continue working in it. (When you run |
| <code class="code">texinfo-format-region</code> or <code class="code">texinfo-format-buffer</code>, you cannot |
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