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authorCharles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>2018-12-23 13:10:38 +0000
committerCharles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>2018-12-23 13:10:38 +0000
commitc3ac38156d7668879ad9f657c762febf341d49f5 (patch)
treec6c68762f8752a1386e239851901b1104dd85c3a /man/1
parentf092bcd9be21a77f026a7c3227a920437d35b9e5 (diff)
add -pprefix -t [trace] options to m4
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diff --git a/man/1/m4 b/man/1/m4
index ef0670a3..08a50990 100644
--- a/man/1/m4
+++ b/man/1/m4
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ m4 \- macro processor
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B m4
[
+.BI -p prefix
+]
+[
+.B -t
+]
+[
.BI -D name = value
] [
.BI -Q name = value
@@ -236,7 +242,20 @@ Text may be undiverted into another diversion.
Undiverting discards the diverted text.
.PD
.PP
+The
+.B -p
+option causes
+.I m4
+to add the given prefix character to the names of predefined macros;
+typically the
+.I prefix
+is a Unicode character, to reduce the chance of a clash with macro names in the input text.
+The
+.B -t
+option produces a trace on standard error.
+.PP
.I M4
+otherwise
interprets its command line options after installing the predefined macro set.
The
.B -D