Command Line Filters

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COMMAND LINE FILTERS

MicroEmacs may be invoked from the command line to perform a specific set of filtering tasks, under control of a dedicated start up macro, see me(1) and start-up(3). A number of standard macros are provided, most of which are invoked automatically from the editor itself when requested by the user. Having said that, it has not been unknown for a colleague of mine to use the editor as a replacement for a more intelligent sed(1) filter, with 12 hours to go and a huge ugly 3-D geometric database to convert, what better way than run it through a set of MicroEmacs macros to turn it into another database format that can be handled - probably not for the uninitiated, but that person did pull it off and went home for tea !!

Macro Command Line Filters

benchmrk(3f) Benchmark MicroEmacs macro processor speed
ctags(3f) Generate a C tags file
dos2unix(3f) Convert DOS format files to UNIX format files
ehftools(3f) Generate a MicroEmacs help file
emftags(3f) Generate a MicroEmacs macro tags file
gdiff(3f) Command line graphical file difference
ntags(3f) Generate a nroff tags file
printall(3f) Formatted print job
tcltags(3f) Generate a Tcl/Tk tags file
textags(3f) Generate a LaTeX/BibTeX tags file

Macro Functions

shut-down(3) Editor exit callback command
start-up(3) Editor startup callback command

Macro Variables

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