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665a7c3b 1;;; man.el --- browse UNIX manual pages -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
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acaf905b 3;; Copyright (C) 1993-1994, 1996-1997, 2001-2012
95df8112 4;; Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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6;; Author: Barry A. Warsaw <bwarsaw@cen.com>
7;; Maintainer: FSF
8;; Keywords: help
9;; Adapted-By: ESR, pot
10
11;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
12
eb3fa2cf 13;; GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
55535639 14;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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15;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
16;; (at your option) any later version.
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18;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
19;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
20;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
21;; GNU General Public License for more details.
22
23;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
eb3fa2cf 24;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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26;;; Commentary:
27
28;; This code provides a function, `man', with which you can browse
29;; UNIX manual pages. Formatting is done in background so that you
30;; can continue to use your Emacs while processing is going on.
31;;
32;; The mode also supports hypertext-like following of manual page SEE
33;; ALSO references, and other features. See below or do `?' in a
34;; manual page buffer for details.
35
36;; ========== Credits and History ==========
37;; In mid 1991, several people posted some interesting improvements to
a88459cd 38;; man.el from the standard Emacs 18.57 distribution. I liked many of
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39;; these, but wanted everything in one single package, so I decided
40;; to incorporate them into a single manual browsing mode. While
41;; much of the code here has been rewritten, and some features added,
42;; these folks deserve lots of credit for providing the initial
43;; excellent packages on which this one is based.
44
45;; Nick Duffek <duffek@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu>, posted a very nice
46;; improvement which retrieved and cleaned the manpages in a
47;; background process, and which correctly deciphered such options as
48;; man -k.
49
50;; Eric Rose <erose@jessica.stanford.edu>, submitted manual.el which
51;; provided a very nice manual browsing mode.
52
53;; This package was available as `superman.el' from the LCD package
54;; for some time before it was accepted into Emacs 19. The entry
55;; point and some other names have been changed to make it a drop-in
56;; replacement for the old man.el package.
57
58;; Francesco Potorti` <pot@cnuce.cnr.it> cleaned it up thoroughly,
59;; making it faster, more robust and more tolerant of different
60;; systems' man idiosyncrasies.
61
62;; ========== Features ==========
63;; + Runs "man" in the background and pipes the results through a
64;; series of sed and awk scripts so that all retrieving and cleaning
4cb071a4 65;; is done in the background. The cleaning commands are configurable.
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66;; + Syntax is the same as Un*x man
67;; + Functionality is the same as Un*x man, including "man -k" and
68;; "man <section>", etc.
69;; + Provides a manual browsing mode with keybindings for traversing
70;; the sections of a manpage, following references in the SEE ALSO
71;; section, and more.
72;; + Multiple manpages created with the same man command are put into
73;; a narrowed buffer circular list.
74
75;; ============= TODO ===========
76;; - Add a command for printing.
fffa137c 77;; - The awk script deletes multiple blank lines. This behavior does
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78;; not allow to understand if there was indeed a blank line at the
79;; end or beginning of a page (after the header, or before the
80;; footer). A different algorithm should be used. It is easy to
81;; compute how many blank lines there are before and after the page
82;; headers, and after the page footer. But it is possible to compute
72397ff1 83;; the number of blank lines before the page footer by heuristics
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84;; only. Is it worth doing?
85;; - Allow a user option to mean that all the manpages should go in
86;; the same buffer, where they can be browsed with M-n and M-p.
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88\f
89;;; Code:
90
079c2d00 91(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
4edd9faf 92(require 'button)
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94;; vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
95;; empty defvars (keep the compiler quiet)
96
97(defgroup man nil
98 "Browse UNIX manual pages."
99 :prefix "Man-"
ff90f4b0 100 :group 'external
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101 :group 'help)
102
55535639 103(defvar Man-notify)
55535639 104(defcustom Man-filter-list nil
9201cc28 105 "Manpage cleaning filter command phrases.
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106This variable contains a list of the following form:
107
108'((command-string phrase-string*)*)
109
110Each phrase-string is concatenated onto the command-string to form a
111command filter. The (standard) output (and standard error) of the Un*x
112man command is piped through each command filter in the order the
113commands appear in the association list. The final output is placed in
114the manpage buffer."
115 :type '(repeat (list (string :tag "Command String")
116 (repeat :inline t
117 (string :tag "Phrase String"))))
118 :group 'man)
119
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120(defvar Man-uses-untabify-flag t
121 "Non-nil means use `untabify' instead of `Man-untabify-command'.")
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122(defvar Man-sed-script nil
123 "Script for sed to nuke backspaces and ANSI codes from manpages.")
124
125;; vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
126;; user variables
127
128(defcustom Man-fontify-manpage-flag t
a88459cd 129 "Non-nil means make up the manpage with fonts."
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130 :type 'boolean
131 :group 'man)
132
133(defcustom Man-overstrike-face 'bold
a88459cd 134 "Face to use when fontifying overstrike."
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135 :type 'face
136 :group 'man)
137
138(defcustom Man-underline-face 'underline
a88459cd 139 "Face to use when fontifying underlining."
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140 :type 'face
141 :group 'man)
142
8d2a4f61 143(defcustom Man-reverse-face 'highlight
a88459cd 144 "Face to use when fontifying reverse video."
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145 :type 'face
146 :group 'man)
147
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148;; Use the value of the obsolete user option Man-notify, if set.
149(defcustom Man-notify-method (if (boundp 'Man-notify) Man-notify 'friendly)
a88459cd 150 "Selects the behavior when manpage is ready.
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151This variable may have one of the following values, where (sf) means
152that the frames are switched, so the manpage is displayed in the frame
153where the man command was called from:
154
155newframe -- put the manpage in its own frame (see `Man-frame-parameters')
156pushy -- make the manpage the current buffer in the current window
157bully -- make the manpage the current buffer and only window (sf)
158aggressive -- make the manpage the current buffer in the other window (sf)
159friendly -- display manpage in the other window but don't make current (sf)
160polite -- don't display manpage, but prints message and beep when ready
161quiet -- like `polite', but don't beep
162meek -- make no indication that the manpage is ready
163
164Any other value of `Man-notify-method' is equivalent to `meek'."
165 :type '(radio (const newframe) (const pushy) (const bully)
166 (const aggressive) (const friendly)
167 (const polite) (const quiet) (const meek))
168 :group 'man)
169
aec2bd36 170(defcustom Man-width nil
a88459cd 171 "Number of columns for which manual pages should be formatted.
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172If nil, the width of the window selected at the moment of man
173invocation is used. If non-nil, the width of the frame selected
174at the moment of man invocation is used. The value also can be a
175positive integer."
176 :type '(choice (const :tag "Window width" nil)
177 (const :tag "Frame width" t)
178 (integer :tag "Specific width" :value 65))
179 :group 'man)
180
55535639 181(defcustom Man-frame-parameters nil
a88459cd 182 "Frame parameter list for creating a new frame for a manual page."
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183 :type 'sexp
184 :group 'man)
185
186(defcustom Man-downcase-section-letters-flag t
a88459cd 187 "Non-nil means letters in sections are converted to lower case.
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188Some Un*x man commands can't handle uppercase letters in sections, for
189example \"man 2V chmod\", but they are often displayed in the manpage
190with the upper case letter. When this variable is t, the section
191letter (e.g., \"2V\") is converted to lowercase (e.g., \"2v\") before
192being sent to the man background process."
193 :type 'boolean
194 :group 'man)
195
196(defcustom Man-circular-pages-flag t
a88459cd 197 "Non-nil means the manpage list is treated as circular for traversal."
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198 :type 'boolean
199 :group 'man)
200
201(defcustom Man-section-translations-alist
202 (list
203 '("3C++" . "3")
204 ;; Some systems have a real 3x man section, so let's comment this.
205 ;; '("3X" . "3") ; Xlib man pages
206 '("3X11" . "3")
207 '("1-UCB" . ""))
a88459cd 208 "Association list of bogus sections to real section numbers.
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209Some manpages (e.g. the Sun C++ 2.1 manpages) have section numbers in
210their references which Un*x `man' does not recognize. This
211association list is used to translate those sections, when found, to
212the associated section number."
213 :type '(repeat (cons (string :tag "Bogus Section")
214 (string :tag "Real Section")))
215 :group 'man)
216
ac2eceee 217;; FIXME see comments at ffap-c-path.
4edd9faf 218(defcustom Man-header-file-path
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219 (let ((arch (with-temp-buffer
220 (when (eq 0 (ignore-errors
221 (call-process "gcc" nil '(t nil) nil
222 "-print-multiarch")))
223 (goto-char (point-min))
224 (buffer-substring (point) (line-end-position)))))
225 (base '("/usr/include" "/usr/local/include")))
226 (if (zerop (length arch))
227 base
228 (append base (list (expand-file-name arch "/usr/include")))))
4edd9faf 229 "C Header file search path used in Man."
ac2eceee 230 :version "24.1" ; add multiarch
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231 :type '(repeat string)
232 :group 'man)
233
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234(defcustom Man-name-local-regexp (concat "^" (regexp-opt '("NOM" "NAME")) "$")
235 "Regexp that matches the text that precedes the command's name.
45be326a 236Used in `bookmark-set' to get the default bookmark name."
2bed3f04 237 :version "24.1"
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238 :type 'string :group 'bookmark)
239
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240(defvar manual-program "man"
241 "The name of the program that produces man pages.")
242
243(defvar Man-untabify-command "pr"
244 "Command used for untabifying.")
245
246(defvar Man-untabify-command-args (list "-t" "-e")
247 "List of arguments to be passed to `Man-untabify-command' (which see).")
248
249(defvar Man-sed-command "sed"
250 "Command used for processing sed scripts.")
251
252(defvar Man-awk-command "awk"
253 "Command used for processing awk scripts.")
254
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255(defvar Man-mode-hook nil
256 "Hook run when Man mode is enabled.")
257
258(defvar Man-cooked-hook nil
259 "Hook run after removing backspaces but before `Man-mode' processing.")
260
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