fish-shell/share/functions/__fish_print_help.fish
John McKay 827bce6c88 Use mandoc when nroff not available
mandoc users do not need to install nroff to be able to format and view
manual pages. If both nroff and mandoc cannot be found it will show an
error.
2019-01-08 18:25:28 +01:00

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function __fish_print_help --description "Print help message for the specified fish function or builtin" --argument item
if test "$item" = '.'
set item source
end
# Do nothing if the file does not exist
if not test -e "$__fish_data_dir/man/man1/$item.1" -o -e "$__fish_data_dir/man/man1/$item.1.gz"
return
end
# Render help output, save output into the variable 'help'
set -l help
set -l format
set -l cols
if test -n "$COLUMNS"
set cols (math $COLUMNS - 4) # leave a bit of space on the right
end
# Pick which command we are using to render output or fail if none
if command -qs nroff
set format nroff -c -man -t
if test -e $__fish_data_dir/groff/fish.tmac
set -a format -M$__fish_data_dir/groff -mfish
end
if test -n "$cols"
set -a format -rLL={$cols}n
end
else if command -qs mandoc
set format mandoc -c
if test -n "$cols"
set -a format -O width=$cols
end
else
echo fish: (_ "Cannot format help; no parser found")
return 1
end
if test -e "$__fish_data_dir/man/man1/$item.1"
set help ($format "$__fish_data_dir/man/man1/$item.1" 2>/dev/null)
else if test -e "$__fish_data_dir/man/man1/$item.1.gz"
set help (gunzip -c "$__fish_data_dir/man/man1/$item.1.gz" 2>/dev/null | $format 2>/dev/null)
end
# The original implementation trimmed off the top 5 lines and bottom 3 lines
# from the nroff output. Perhaps that's reliable, but the magic numbers make
# me extremely nervous. Instead, let's just strip out any lines that start
# in the first column. "normal" manpages put all section headers in the first
# column, but fish manpages only leave NAME like that, which we want to trim
# away anyway.
#
# While we're at it, let's compress sequences of blank lines down to a single
# blank line, to duplicate the default behavior of `man`, or more accurately,
# the `-s` flag to `less` that `man` passes.
set -l state blank
for line in $help
# categorize the line
set -l line_type
switch $line
case ' *' \t\*
# starts with whitespace, check if it has non-whitespace
printf "%s\n" $line | read -l word __
if test -n $word
set line_type normal
else
# lines with just spaces probably shouldn't happen
# but let's consider them to be blank
set line_type blank
end
case ''
set line_type blank
case '*'
# not leading space, and not empty, so must contain a non-space
# in the first column. That makes it a header/footer.
set line_type meta
end
switch $state
case normal
switch $line_type
case normal
printf "%s\n" $line
case blank
set state blank
case meta
# skip it
end
case blank
switch $line_type
case normal
echo # print the blank line
printf "%s\n" $line
set state normal
case blank meta
# skip it
end
end
end | ul # post-process with `ul`, to interpret the old-style grotty escapes
echo # print a trailing blank line
end