Emacs function to tidy up text files for gopher. ================================================ (defun gopher-format-buffer () "Format the current buffer for Gopher: - Fill paragraphs to 67 columns - Set encoding to US-ASCII - Remove non-ASCII characters (with replacements where possible)" (interactive) (let ((fill-column 67)) ;; Refill all paragraphs (goto-char (point-min)) (while (not (eobp)) (fill-paragraph nil) (forward-paragraph))) ;; Show any non-ASCII characters (let ((non-ascii (delq nil (mapcar (lambda (c) (when (> c 127) c)) (string-to-list (buffer-string)))))) (if non-ascii (message "Warning: Non-ASCII characters found: %s" non-ascii) (message "Buffer is clean ASCII."))) ;; Set buffer encoding to US-ASCII for saving (set-buffer-file-coding-system 'us-ascii-unix) ;; Save the buffer (save-buffer) (message "Formatted and saved for Gopher.")) .