if not type -q apropos function __fish_apropos end exit end # Check for macOS Catalina or above. This is Darwin 19.x or above. See unames reported here: # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) set -l sysver (uname -sr | string match -r "(Darwin) (\d\d)"\.) if test $status -eq 0 -a (count $sysver) -eq 3 and test $sysver[2] = Darwin -a $sysver[3] -ge 19 and test -x /usr/libexec/makewhatis set -l dir if test -n "$XDG_CACHE_HOME" set dir $XDG_CACHE_HOME/fish else set dir (getconf DARWIN_USER_CACHE_DIR)"fish" end function __fish_apropos -V dir # macOS 10.15 "Catalina" has a read only filesystem where the whatis database should be. # The whatis database is non-existent, so apropos tries (and fails) to create it every time, # which can take seconds. # # Instead, we build a whatis database in the user cache directory # and override the MANPATH using that directory before we run `apropos` # # the cache is rebuilt once a week. set -l whatis $dir/whatis set -l max_age 600000 # like a week set -l age $max_age if test -f "$whatis" set age (path mtime -R -- $whatis) end MANPATH="$dir" MANPAGER=cat WHATISPAGER=cat apropos "$argv" if test $age -ge $max_age test -d "$dir" || mkdir -m 700 -p $dir /usr/libexec/makewhatis -o "$whatis" (/usr/bin/manpath | string split : | xargs realpath) >/dev/null 2>&1 # (apropos '' gives no results, but apropos '^' lists all manpages) MANPAGER=cat WHATISPAGER=cat apropos "$argv" end end