Command line tool for macro definitions

Command line tool for macro definitions

[Henri]

Dear list,

For TeX/LaTeX users there is the neat command line tool `texdef` with
which you can show the definition of a macro.  Here an example:

$ texdef -t latex section

\section:
\long macro:->\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@ }{-3.5ex \@plus -1ex
\@minus -.2ex}{2.3ex \@plus .2ex}{\normalfont \Large \bfseries }

Is there something similar for ConTeXt?  It is quite tedious to either
grep the full source or setup an extra dummy document to use \show or
\meaning.

Cheers, Henri

N.B.: I already asked this long time ago but got no response.
      https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2016/086249.html
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Re: Command line tool for macro definitions

[Hans Hagen]

On 1/14/2018 1:56 AM, Henri wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> For TeX/LaTeX users there is the neat command line tool `texdef` with
> which you can show the definition of a macro.  Here an example:
> 
> $ texdef -t latex section
> 
> \section:
> \long macro:->\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@ }{-3.5ex \@plus -1ex
> \@minus -.2ex}{2.3ex \@plus .2ex}{\normalfont \Large \bfseries }
> 
> Is there something similar for ConTeXt?  It is quite tedious to either
> grep the full source or setup an extra dummy document to use \show or
> \meaning.
i must admit that i never use \show for that ... anyhow, i'll provide

context --extra=meaning --once --pattern=*paper*
context --extra=meaning --once setuplayout
context --extra=meaning --once setup_layout

in the next beta

Hans

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Command line tool for macro definitions

[Henri Menke]

Dear list,

For TeX/LaTeX users there is the neat command line tool `texdef` with
which you can show the definition of a macro.  Here an example:

$ texdef -t latex section

\section:
\long macro:->\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@ }{-3.5ex \@plus -1ex
\@minus -.2ex}{2.3ex \@plus .2ex}{\normalfont \Large \bfseries }

Is there something similar for ConTeXt?  It is quite tedious to either
grep the full source or setup an extra dummy document to use \show or
\meaning.

Cheers, Henri
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