Expangle

Expangle is a generic quotation expander. It expands quotations written <:qname<...>> in any kind of text, where qname refers to a particular expander.

Documentation

Options:
  -debug <n>        Set the debug level to <n>
  -h | -help        Print this message and exit
  -nonest           Forbid nested quotations
  -v | -version     Print version and exit
  -o <file>         Send output to <file> instead of stdout
  -i <file>         Receive input from <file> instead of stdin
  -exp predef <name> <arg> ... --
                    Activate the predefined expander <name> with arguments <args> ...
                    Note that "--" signals the end of the expander's arguments
  -exp shell [-trim] <name> <command>
                    Activate the expander called <name> defined as the output of the shell command <command>
                    -trim discards leading and trailing spaces from the command output
  -exp module <file.cmo> <arg> ... --
                    Activate an expander provided by module <file.cmo> with arguments <arg> ...
                    Note that "--" signals the end of the expander's arguments
 

Installation

Expangle is written in Objective Caml and the OCaml compiler ocamlopt must be available for a successful installation.

In a Unix environment, from the expangle distribution main directory, edit the file Makefile for fixing the installation directory (variable BINDIR).

Then, simply issue:

make
sudo make install

License

Expangle is free software. Its license is the GPL, version 2.

Downloading

Expangle is available as a gzipped tar archive here.