SYNOPSIS
el [-acdfhioxV] [--command cmd] [--args n] [--format fmt] [--execute] [--inpipe buf] [--outpipe buf] [--serial] [--help] [--version] [--debug]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the el command.
This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.
el is a program that You can make a tuned shell-command for Oneliner with. This command can send S-exp to Emacs, and this can make Emacs evaluate it, too. In other words, you can execute Emacs's function from shell-commands. And you can make Emacs work in closer cooperation with your favorite shell-commands.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.
- -c cmd --command cmd
- cmd means a function of Elisp. Command line arguments and data from stdin means arguments of cmd. If you specify the only -c switch, el output one S-exp by one line of stdin.
- --a n --args n
- Specifies the maximum number of arguments of a Elisp function with -c switch.
- -f fmt --format fmt
- Allows you to use format string of printf for making a S-exp.
- -x --execute
- Requests to Oneliner to evaluate the S-exp to use *Oneliner auto-eval* buffer.
- -i buf --inpipe buf
- Gets input from pipe-buffer. You can specify a number of pipe-buffer, too.
- -o buf --outpipe buf
- Puts output to pipe-buffer. You can specify a number of pipe-buffer, too.
- -s --serial
- Makes el to serialize multiple lines to one line.
- -h --help
- Display help message.
- -V --version
- Display version identifiers.
- -d --debug
- Enable debugging state.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by OHURA Makoto <[email protected]> for
the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any
later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public
License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.