fish-shell/share/functions/__fish_apropos.fish
ridiculousfish a6686ca310 Run makewhatis in the background
In the new __fish_apropos, makewhatis is run explicitly to generate the
whatis database. However this can be a little slow. Run it in the
background, after the apropos call completes so as to avoid a weird
race.

This means that descriptions may not be available the first time the
user invokes it, but that's better than appearing to hang for a while.
2020-10-03 17:09:00 -07:00

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if not type -q apropos
function __fish_apropos
end
exit
end
function __fish_apropos
# macOS 10.15 "Catalina" has some major issues.
# The whatis database is non-existent, so apropos tries (and fails) to create it every time,
# which takes about half a second.
#
# 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 day
if test (uname) = Darwin
set -l cache $HOME/.cache/fish/
if test -n "$XDG_CACHE_HOME"
set cache $XDG_CACHE_HOME/fish
end
set -l db $cache/whatis
set -l max_age 86400 # one day
set -l age $max_age
if test -f $db
set age (math (date +%s) - (stat -f %m $db))
end
MANPATH="$cache" apropos $argv
if test $age -ge $max_age
mkdir -m 700 -p $cache
/usr/libexec/makewhatis -o $db (man --path | string split :) >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null &
end
else
apropos $argv
end
end