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authorRobin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com>2025-08-03 15:41:28 +0300
committerRobin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com>2025-08-03 16:09:33 +0300
commit51bd183f064d0c0ea5e0184d9f6b6b62e5c01e50 (patch)
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added --quiet, --stdin and --stdout for easier integration into UNIX pipelines
* In principle --stdin and --stdout could have been done in pure TECO code using the <^T> command. Having built-in command-line arguments however has several advantages: * Significantly faster than reading byte-wise with ^T. * Performs EOL normalization unless specifying --8bit of course. * Significantly shortens command-lines. `sciteco -qio` and `sciteco -qi` can be real replacements for sed and awk. * You can even place SciTECO into the middle of a pipeline while editing interactively: foo | sciteco -qio --no-profile | bar Unfortunately, this will not currently work when munging the profile as command-line parameters are also transmitted via the unnamed buffer. This should be changed to use special Q-registers (FIXME). * --quiet can help to improve the test suite (TODO). Should probably be the default in TE_CHECK(). * --stdin and --stdout allow to simplify many SciTECO scripts, avoiding temporary files, especially for womenpage generation (TODO). * For processing potentially infinite streams, you will still have to read using ^T.
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