Subroutines

Reusable subroutines from macros/lib/. These are appended to ~/.xnedit/autoload.nm rather than installed as menu commands, so they are available to every macro from startup onward and add nothing to any menu:

cat macros/lib/text.nm >> "${XNEDIT_HOME:-$HOME/.xnedit}/autoload.nm"

Restart XNEdit afterwards.

Every name is prefixed ned_ so it cannot collide with a built-in or with someone's personal macros.

This page is generated from the library files by tools/gen_docs.py.

text.nm

From macros/lib/text.nm.

ned_trim()

Strip leading and trailing spaces and tabs.

Note that ^ and $ anchor to line boundaries rather than string boundaries, so passing a multi-line string trims every line in it. That is usually what you want; if it isn't, split first.

ned_field()

Return the Nth whitespace-separated field of a string, counting from 1. Returns "" when the field doesn't exist.

ned_field("NGC  4151   Sy1.5", 2)   ->  "4151"

ned_current_line()

Return the text of the line the cursor is on, without its newline.