comparison lisp/man.el @ 3909:192e7aa8389a

(Man-auto-section-alist): Default value nil. (Man-getpage-in-background): Call Man-default-man-args. (Man-filter-list): Don't discard overstrike here. (Man-set-fonts): New function. (Man-bgproc-sentinel): Call Man-set-fonts. (Man-version-number): Var deleted. (Man-version): Command and binding deleted. (Man-mode): Use Manual, not Man, as official mode name.

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;; + Runs "man" in the background and pipes the results through a
;;   series of sed and awk scripts so that all retrieving and cleaning
;;   is done in the background. The cleaning commands are configurable.
;; + Syntax is the same as Un*x man
;; + Functionality is the same as Un*x man, including "man -k" and
;;   "man <section>, etc.
;; + Provides a manual browsing mode with keybindings for traversing
;;   the sections of a manpage, following references in the SEE ALSO
;;   section, and more.
;; + Multiple manpages created with the same man command are put into
;;   a narrowed buffer circular list.

(defvar Man-reuse-okay-p t
  "*Reuse a manpage buffer if possible.
When t, and a manpage buffer already exists with the same invocation,
man just indicates the manpage is ready according to the value of
Man-notify. When nil, it always fires off a background process, putting
the results in a uniquely named buffer.")

(defvar Man-downcase-section-letters-p t
  "*Letters in sections are converted to lower case.
Some Un*x man commands can't handle uppercase letters in sections, for
example \"man 2V chmod\", but they are often displayed in the manpage
with the upper case letter. When this variable is t, the section
letter (e.g., \"2V\") is converted to lowercase (e.g., \"2v\") before
being sent to the man background process.")

(defvar Man-circular-pages-p t
  "*If t, the manpage list is treated as circular for traversal.")

(defvar Man-auto-section-alist
  '((c-mode . ("2" "3"))
    (c++-mode . ("2" "3"))
    (shell-mode . ("1" "8"))
    (cmushell-mode . ("1" "8"))
    (text-mode . "1")
    )
  "*Association list of major modes and their default section numbers.
List is of the form: (MAJOR-MODE . [SECTION | (SECTION*)]). If current
major mode is not in list, then the default is to check for manpages
in all sections.")

(defvar Man-section-translations-alist
  '(("3C++" . "3")
    ("1-UCB" . ""))
  "*Association list of bogus sections to real section numbers.
Some manpages (e.g. the Sun C++ 2.1 manpages) have section numbers in
their references which Un*x man(1) does not recognize.  This
association list is used to translate those sections, when found, to
the associated section number.")

(defvar Man-filter-list
  '(("sed "
     ("-e 's/.\010//g'"
      "-e '/[Nn]o such file or directory/d'"
      "-e '/Reformatting page.  Wait... done/d'"
      "-e '/^\\([A-Z][A-Z.]*([0-9A-Za-z][-0-9A-Za-z+]*)\\).*\\1$/d'"
      "-e '/^[ \\t]*Hewlett-Packard Company[ \\t]*- [0-9]* -.*$/d'"
      "-e '/^[ \\t]*Hewlett-Packard[ \\t]*- [0-9]* -.*$/d'"

This variable contains an association list of the following form:

'((command-string (phrase-string*))*)

Each phrase-string is concatenated onto the command-string to form a
command filter. The (standard) output (and standard error) of the Un*x
man command is piped through each command filter in the order the
commands appear in the association list. The final output is placed in
the manpage buffer.")

(defvar Man-mode-line-format
  '("" mode-line-modified
       mode-line-buffer-identification "   "

       "    %[(" mode-name minor-mode-alist mode-line-process ")%]----"
       (-3 . "%p") "-%-")
  "*Mode line format for manual mode buffer.")

(defvar Man-mode-map nil
  "*Keymap for Man-mode.")

(defvar Man-mode-hooks nil
  "*Hooks for Man-mode.")

(defvar Man-section-regexp "[0-9][a-zA-Z+]*"
  "*Regular expression describing a manpage section within parentheses.")

(defvar Man-heading-regexp "^[A-Z]"

(defvar Man-switches ""
  "*Switches passed to the man command, as a single string.")

;; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
;; end user variables

(defconst Man-version-number "1.1"
  "man's version number.")


;; other variables and keymap initializations
(make-variable-buffer-local 'Man-sections-alist)
(make-variable-buffer-local 'Man-refpages-alist)
(make-variable-buffer-local 'Man-page-list)

  (define-key Man-mode-map "t"    'toggle-truncate-lines)
  (define-key Man-mode-map "g"    'Man-goto-section)
  (define-key Man-mode-map "s"    'Man-goto-see-also-section)
  (define-key Man-mode-map "q"    'Man-quit)
  (define-key Man-mode-map "m"    'manual-entry)
  (define-key Man-mode-map "v"    'Man-version)
  (define-key Man-mode-map "?"    'describe-mode)
  )


;; ======================================================================

	(concat section " " word))
    ref))

(defun Man-linepos (&optional position col-p)
  "Return the character position at various line/buffer positions.
Preserves the state of point, mark, etc. Optional POSITION can be one
of the following symbols:
     bol == beginning of line
     boi == beginning of indentation
     eol == end of line [default]
     bob == beginning of buffer
     eob == end of buffer

Optional COL-P non-nil returns current-column instead of character position."
  (let ((tpnt (point))
	rval)
    (cond
     ((eq position 'bol) (beginning-of-line))
     ((eq position 'boi) (back-to-indentation))


;; ======================================================================
;; default man entry and get word under point

(defun Man-default-man-args (manword)
  "Build the default man args from MANWORD and major-mode."
  (let ((mode major-mode)
	(slist Man-auto-section-alist))
    (while (and slist
		(not (eq (car (car slist)) mode)))
      (setq slist (cdr slist)))

	  )))))

(defun Man-default-man-entry ()
  "Make a guess at a default manual entry.
This guess is based on the text surrounding the cursor, and the
default section number is selected from Man-auto-section-alist."
  (let ((default-section nil)
	default-title)
    (save-excursion
      
      ;; Default man entry title is any word the cursor is on,

;; top level command and background process sentinel

;;;###autoload
(defun manual-entry (arg)
  "Get a Un*x manual page and put it in a buffer.
This command is the top-level command in the man package. It runs a Un*x
command to retrieve and clean a manpage in the background and places the
results in a Man-mode (manpage browsing) buffer. See variable
Man-notify for what happens when the buffer is ready.
Universal argument ARG, is passed to Man-getpage-in-background."
  (interactive "P")
  (let* ((default-entry (Man-default-man-entry))
	 (man-args
	  (read-string (format "Manual-entry: %s"
			(if (string= default-entry "") ""

    (if Man-downcase-section-letters-p
	(setq man-args (Man-downcase man-args)))
    (Man-getpage-in-background man-args (consp arg))
    ))

(defun Man-getpage-in-background (man-args &optional override-reuse-p)
  "Uses MAN-ARGS to build and fire off the manpage and cleaning command.
Optional OVERRIDE-REUSE-P, when supplied non-nil forces man to
start a background process even if a buffer already exists and
Man-reuse-okay-p is non-nil."
  (let* ((bufname (concat "*man " man-args "*"))
	 (buffer  (get-buffer bufname)))
    (if (and Man-reuse-okay-p
	     (not override-reuse-p)
	     buffer)
	(Man-notify-when-ready buffer)

    (message "Manual buffer %s is ready." (buffer-name man-buffer)))
   ((or (eq Man-notify 'meek)
	t)
    (message ""))
   ))

(defun Man-bgproc-sentinel (process msg)
  "Manpage background process sentinel."
  (let ((Man-buffer (process-buffer process))
	(delete-buff nil)

      (if delete-buff
	  (kill-buffer Man-buffer)
	(save-window-excursion
	  (save-excursion
	    (set-buffer Man-buffer)
	    (Man-mode)
	    (set-buffer-modified-p nil)))
	(Man-notify-when-ready Man-buffer))

      (if err-mess


;; ======================================================================
;; set up manual mode in buffer and build alists

(defun Man-mode ()
  "SUPERMAN 1.1: A mode for browsing Un*x manual pages.

The following man commands are available in the buffer. Try
\"\\[describe-key] <key> RET\" for more information:

\\[manual-entry]       Prompt to retrieve a new manpage.

\\[Man-next-section]       Jump to next manpage section.
\\[Man-previous-section]       Jump to previous manpage section.
\\[Man-goto-section]       Go to a manpage section.
\\[Man-goto-see-also-section]       Jumps to the SEE ALSO manpage section.
\\[Man-quit]       Deletes the manpage, its buffer, and window.
\\[Man-version]       Prints man's version number.
\\[describe-mode]       Prints this help text.

The following variables may be of some use. Try
\"\\[describe-variable] <variable-name> RET\" for more information:

Man-section-regexp              Regexp describing manpage section letters.
Man-heading-regexp              Regexp describing section headers.
Man-see-also-regexp             Regexp for SEE ALSO section (or your equiv).
Man-first-heading-regexp        Regexp for first heading on a manpage.
Man-reference-regexp            Regexp matching a references in SEE ALSO.
Man-version-number              Superman version number.
Man-switches			Background `man' command switches.

The following key bindings are currently in effect in the buffer:
\\{Man-mode-map}"
  (interactive)
  (setq major-mode 'Man-mode
	mode-name "Manual"
	buffer-auto-save-file-name nil
	mode-line-format Man-mode-line-format
	truncate-lines t
	buffer-read-only t)
  (buffer-disable-undo (current-buffer))

	    chosen)))
  (Man-find-section (aheadsym Man-sections-alist)))

(defun Man-goto-see-also-section ()
  "Move point the the \"SEE ALSO\" section.
Actually the section moved to is described by Man-see-also-regexp."
  (interactive)
  (if (not (Man-find-section Man-see-also-regexp))
      (error (concat "No " Man-see-also-regexp
		     " section found in current manpage."))))

(defun Man-follow-manual-reference (arg)
  "Get one of the manpages referred to in the \"SEE ALSO\" section.
Queries you for the page to retrieve. Of course it does this in the
background. Universal argument ARG is passed to Man-getpage-in-background."
  (interactive "P")
  (if (not Man-refpages-alist)
      (error (concat "No references found in current manpage."))
    (aput 'Man-refpages-alist
	  (let* ((default (aheadsym Man-refpages-alist))

  (if (> Man-current-page 1)
      (Man-goto-page (1- Man-current-page))
    (if Man-circular-pages-p
	(Man-goto-page (length Man-page-list))
      (error "You're looking at the first manpage in the buffer."))))

(defun Man-version (arg)
  "Show man's version.
Universal argument (\\[universal-argument]) ARG inserts version
information in the current buffer instead of printing the message in
the echo area."
  (interactive "P")
  (if (consp arg)
      (insert "Using Superman version " Man-version-number ".")
    (message "Using Superman version %s." Man-version-number)))


(provide 'man)

;;; man.el ends here

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;; + Runs "man" in the background and pipes the results through a
;;   series of sed and awk scripts so that all retrieving and cleaning
;;   is done in the background. The cleaning commands are configurable.
;; + Syntax is the same as Un*x man
;; + Functionality is the same as Un*x man, including "man -k" and
;;   "man <section>", etc.
;; + Provides a manual browsing mode with keybindings for traversing
;;   the sections of a manpage, following references in the SEE ALSO
;;   section, and more.
;; + Multiple manpages created with the same man command are put into
;;   a narrowed buffer circular list.

(defvar Man-reuse-okay-p t
  "*Reuse a manpage buffer if possible.
When t, and a manpage buffer already exists with the same invocation,
man just indicates the manpage is ready according to the value of
`Man-notify'.  When nil, it always fires off a background process, putting
the results in a uniquely named buffer.")

(defvar Man-downcase-section-letters-p t
  "*Letters in sections are converted to lower case.
Some Un*x man commands can't handle uppercase letters in sections, for
example \"man 2V chmod\", but they are often displayed in the manpage
with the upper case letter.  When this variable is t, the section
letter (e.g., \"2V\") is converted to lowercase (e.g., \"2v\") before
being sent to the man background process.")

(defvar Man-circular-pages-p t
  "*If t, the manpage list is treated as circular for traversal.")

;; I changed this to nil because it is a bad idea
;; to fail to recognize things in other sections.
(defvar Man-auto-section-alist
  nil
;;  '((c-mode . ("2" "3"))
;;    (c++-mode . ("2" "3"))
;;    (c++-c-mode . ("2" "3"))
;;    (shell-mode . ("1" "8"))
;;    (cmushell-mode . ("1" "8"))
;;    (text-mode . "1")
;;    )
  "*Association list of major modes and their default section numbers.
List is of the form: (MAJOR-MODE . [SECTION | (SECTION*)]). If current
major mode is not in list, then the default is to check for manpages
in all sections.")

(defvar Man-section-translations-alist
  '(("3C++" . "3")
    ("1-UCB" . ""))
  "*Association list of bogus sections to real section numbers.
Some manpages (e.g. the Sun C++ 2.1 manpages) have section numbers in
their references which Un*x `man' does not recognize.  This
association list is used to translate those sections, when found, to
the associated section number.")

(defvar Man-filter-list
  '(("sed "
     (;;"-e 's/.\010//g'"
      "-e '/[Nn]o such file or directory/d'"
      "-e '/Reformatting page.  Wait... done/d'"
      "-e '/^\\([A-Z][A-Z.]*([0-9A-Za-z][-0-9A-Za-z+]*)\\).*\\1$/d'"
      "-e '/^[ \\t]*Hewlett-Packard Company[ \\t]*- [0-9]* -.*$/d'"
      "-e '/^[ \\t]*Hewlett-Packard[ \\t]*- [0-9]* -.*$/d'"

This variable contains an association list of the following form:

'((command-string (phrase-string*))*)

Each phrase-string is concatenated onto the command-string to form a
command filter.  The (standard) output (and standard error) of the Un*x
man command is piped through each command filter in the order the
commands appear in the association list.  The final output is placed in
the manpage buffer.")

(defvar Man-mode-line-format
  '("" mode-line-modified
       mode-line-buffer-identification "   "

       "    %[(" mode-name minor-mode-alist mode-line-process ")%]----"
       (-3 . "%p") "-%-")
  "*Mode line format for manual mode buffer.")

(defvar Man-mode-map nil
  "*Keymap for Man mode.")

(defvar Man-mode-hooks nil
  "*Hooks for Man mode.")

(defvar Man-section-regexp "[0-9][a-zA-Z+]*"
  "*Regular expression describing a manpage section within parentheses.")

(defvar Man-heading-regexp "^[A-Z]"

(defvar Man-switches ""
  "*Switches passed to the man command, as a single string.")

;; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
;; end user variables

;; other variables and keymap initializations
(make-variable-buffer-local 'Man-sections-alist)
(make-variable-buffer-local 'Man-refpages-alist)
(make-variable-buffer-local 'Man-page-list)

  (define-key Man-mode-map "t"    'toggle-truncate-lines)
  (define-key Man-mode-map "g"    'Man-goto-section)
  (define-key Man-mode-map "s"    'Man-goto-see-also-section)
  (define-key Man-mode-map "q"    'Man-quit)
  (define-key Man-mode-map "m"    'manual-entry)
  (define-key Man-mode-map "?"    'describe-mode)
  )


;; ======================================================================

	(concat section " " word))
    ref))

(defun Man-linepos (&optional position col-p)
  "Return the character position at various line/buffer positions.
Preserves the state of point, mark, etc.  Optional arg POSITION can be one
of the following symbols:
     bol == beginning of line
     boi == beginning of indentation
     eol == end of line [default]
     bob == beginning of buffer
     eob == end of buffer

Optional arg COL-P, if non-nil, means to return
the current column instead of character position."
  (let ((tpnt (point))
	rval)
    (cond
     ((eq position 'bol) (beginning-of-line))
     ((eq position 'boi) (back-to-indentation))


;; ======================================================================
;; default man entry and get word under point

(defun Man-default-man-args (manword)
  "Build the default man args from MANWORD and buffer's major mode."
  (let ((mode major-mode)
	(slist Man-auto-section-alist))
    (while (and slist
		(not (eq (car (car slist)) mode)))
      (setq slist (cdr slist)))

	  )))))

(defun Man-default-man-entry ()
  "Make a guess at a default manual entry.
This guess is based on the text surrounding the cursor, and the
default section number is selected from `Man-auto-section-alist'."
  (let ((default-section nil)
	default-title)
    (save-excursion
      
      ;; Default man entry title is any word the cursor is on,

;; top level command and background process sentinel

;;;###autoload
(defun manual-entry (arg)
  "Get a Un*x manual page and put it in a buffer.
This command is the top-level command in the man package.  It runs a Un*x
command to retrieve and clean a manpage in the background and places the
results in a Man mode (manpage browsing) buffer.  See variable
`Man-notify' for what happens when the buffer is ready.
Universal argument ARG, is passed to `Man-getpage-in-background'."
  (interactive "P")
  (let* ((default-entry (Man-default-man-entry))
	 (man-args
	  (read-string (format "Manual-entry: %s"
			(if (string= default-entry "") ""

    (if Man-downcase-section-letters-p
	(setq man-args (Man-downcase man-args)))
    (Man-getpage-in-background man-args (consp arg))
    ))

(defun Man-getpage-in-background (TOPIC &optional override-reuse-p)
  "Uses TOPIC to build and fire off the manpage and cleaning command.
Optional OVERRIDE-REUSE-P, when non-nil, means to
start a background process even if a buffer already exists and
`Man-reuse-okay-p' is non-nil."
  (let* ((man-args (Man-default-man-args TOPIC))
	 (bufname (concat "*man " man-args "*"))
	 (buffer  (get-buffer bufname)))
    (if (and Man-reuse-okay-p
	     (not override-reuse-p)
	     buffer)
	(Man-notify-when-ready buffer)

    (message "Manual buffer %s is ready." (buffer-name man-buffer)))
   ((or (eq Man-notify 'meek)
	t)
    (message ""))
   ))

(defun Man-set-fonts ()
  (goto-char (point-min))
  (while (re-search-forward "\\(.\b.\\)+" nil t)
    (let ((st (match-beginning 0)) (en (match-end 0)))
      (goto-char st)
      (if window-system
	  (put-text-property st en 'face 
			     (if (looking-at "_") 'underline 'bold)))
      (while (and (< (point) en) (looking-at ".\b"))
	(replace-match "") (forward-char 1)))))

(defun Man-bgproc-sentinel (process msg)
  "Manpage background process sentinel."
  (let ((Man-buffer (process-buffer process))
	(delete-buff nil)

      (if delete-buff
	  (kill-buffer Man-buffer)
	(save-window-excursion
	  (save-excursion
	    (set-buffer Man-buffer)
	    (Man-set-fonts)
	    (Man-mode)
	    (set-buffer-modified-p nil)))
	(Man-notify-when-ready Man-buffer))

      (if err-mess


;; ======================================================================
;; set up manual mode in buffer and build alists

(defun Man-mode ()
  "A mode for browsing Un*x manual pages.

The following man commands are available in the buffer. Try
\"\\[describe-key] <key> RET\" for more information:

\\[manual-entry]       Prompt to retrieve a new manpage.

\\[Man-next-section]       Jump to next manpage section.
\\[Man-previous-section]       Jump to previous manpage section.
\\[Man-goto-section]       Go to a manpage section.
\\[Man-goto-see-also-section]       Jumps to the SEE ALSO manpage section.
\\[Man-quit]       Deletes the manpage, its buffer, and window.
\\[describe-mode]       Prints this help text.

The following variables may be of some use. Try
\"\\[describe-variable] <variable-name> RET\" for more information:

Man-section-regexp              Regexp describing manpage section letters.
Man-heading-regexp              Regexp describing section headers.
Man-see-also-regexp             Regexp for SEE ALSO section (or your equiv).
Man-first-heading-regexp        Regexp for first heading on a manpage.
Man-reference-regexp            Regexp matching a references in SEE ALSO.
Man-switches			Background `man' command switches.

The following key bindings are currently in effect in the buffer:
\\{Man-mode-map}"
  (interactive)
  (setq major-mode 'Man-mode
	mode-name "Man"
	buffer-auto-save-file-name nil
	mode-line-format Man-mode-line-format
	truncate-lines t
	buffer-read-only t)
  (buffer-disable-undo (current-buffer))

	    chosen)))
  (Man-find-section (aheadsym Man-sections-alist)))

(defun Man-goto-see-also-section ()
  "Move point the the \"SEE ALSO\" section.
Actually the section moved to is described by `Man-see-also-regexp'."
  (interactive)
  (if (not (Man-find-section Man-see-also-regexp))
      (error (concat "No " Man-see-also-regexp
		     " section found in current manpage."))))

(defun Man-follow-manual-reference (arg)
  "Get one of the manpages referred to in the \"SEE ALSO\" section.
Queries you for the page to retrieve.  Of course it does this in the
background.  Universal argument ARG is passed to `Man-getpage-in-background'."
  (interactive "P")
  (if (not Man-refpages-alist)
      (error (concat "No references found in current manpage."))
    (aput 'Man-refpages-alist
	  (let* ((default (aheadsym Man-refpages-alist))

  (if (> Man-current-page 1)
      (Man-goto-page (1- Man-current-page))
    (if Man-circular-pages-p
	(Man-goto-page (length Man-page-list))
      (error "You're looking at the first manpage in the buffer."))))

(provide 'man)

;;; man.el ends here