el — program to make a tuned shell-command for Oneliner
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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.
Name
el — program to make a tuned shell-command for Oneliner
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.
-ccmd--commandcmd
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.
--an--argsn
Specifies the maximum number of arguments of a Elisp function with -c switch.
-ffmt--formatfmt
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.
-ibuf--inpipebuf
Gets input from pipe-buffer. You can specify a number of pipe-buffer, too.
-obuf--outpipebuf
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.
See Also
The programs are documented fully by Oneliner(Shell-modehooksforOneliners) available via the
Info system.
Synopsis
el [-acdfhioxV] [--commandcmd][--argsn][--formatfmt][--execute][--inpipebuf][--outpipebuf][--serial][--help][--version][--debug]
