Overhauled the fix-nonstandard-chars function because it was completely broken.

diff --git a/fix-nonstandard-chars.el b/fix-nonstandard-chars.el
index 52f42df6c2b8d565eb80d191604ef8932648bc2b..2ba368b83a81aecceb4d9ab569944567b1ca6300 100644 (file)
--- a/fix-nonstandard-chars.el
+++ b/fix-nonstandard-chars.el
@@ -2,11 +2,18 @@
   "Replace some typical nonstandard characters that result from
    copy-and-pasting word processor text into XHTML documents."
 
   "Replace some typical nonstandard characters that result from
    copy-and-pasting word processor text into XHTML documents."
 

-  (interactive "P")
+  (interactive "p")

 
 

-  (replace-string "’" "'")
-  (replace-string "“" "“")
-  (replace-string "”" "”")
-  (replace-string "–" "-")
-  (replace-string "—" "—")
+  (setq replacements '( ("’" "'")
+                       ("“" "“")
+                       ("”" "”")
+                       ("–" "-")
+                       ("—" "—") ))
+
+  (dolist (replacement replacements nil)
+    ;; The mark gets all fucked up here. It's easiest to
+    ;; just return to the beginning of the buffer each time.
+    (beginning-of-buffer)
+    (replace-string (nth 0 replacement) (nth 1 replacement))
+    )

 )
 )