linux man page for el

el(1)							      General Commands Manual							     el(1)

NAME

       el -- program to make a tuned shell-command for Oneliner

SYNOPSIS

       el  [-acdfhioxV]   [--command cmd]  [--args n]  [--format fmt]  [--execute]  [--inpipe buf]  [--outpipe buf]  [--serial]  [--help]  [--ver-
       sion]  [--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  docu-
       mentation 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.

SEE ALSO

       The programs are documented fully by Oneliner(Shell-mode hooks for Oneliners)	   available via the Info system.

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page was written by OHURA Makoto <ohura@debian.org> 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.

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