;;; helm-man.el --- Man and woman UI -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; Copyright (C) 2012 ~ 2021 Thierry Volpiatto ;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or ;; (at your option) any later version. ;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with this program. If not, see . ;;; Code: (require 'cl-lib) (require 'helm) (require 'helm-help) (defvar woman-topic-all-completions) (defvar woman-manpath) (defvar woman-path) (defvar woman-expanded-directory-path) (declare-function woman-file-name "woman.el" (topic &optional re-cache)) (declare-function woman-file-name-all-completions "woman.el" (topic)) (declare-function Man-getpage-in-background "man.el" (topic)) (declare-function woman-expand-directory-path "woman.el" (path-dirs path-regexps)) (declare-function woman-topic-all-completions "woman.el" (path)) (declare-function helm-generic-sort-fn "helm-utils.el" (S1 S2)) (declare-function helm-comp-read "helm-mode") (defgroup helm-man nil "Man and Woman applications for Helm." :group 'helm) (defcustom helm-man-or-woman-function 'Man-getpage-in-background "Default command to display a man page." :group 'helm-man :type '(radio :tag "Preferred command to display a man page" (const :tag "Man" Man-getpage-in-background) (const :tag "Woman" woman))) (defcustom helm-man-format-switches (cl-case system-type ((darwin macos) "%s") (t "-l %s")) "Arguments to pass to the `manual-entry' function. Arguments are passed to `manual-entry' with `format.'" :group 'helm-man :type 'string) ;; Internal (defvar helm-man--pages nil "All man pages on system. Will be calculated the first time you invoke Helm with this source.") (defun helm-man-default-action (candidate) "Default action for jumping to a woman or man page from Helm." (let ((wfiles (mapcar #'car (woman-file-name-all-completions candidate)))) (condition-case nil (let ((file (if (cdr wfiles) (helm-comp-read "ManFile: " wfiles :must-match t) (car wfiles)))) (if (eq helm-man-or-woman-function 'Man-getpage-in-background) (manual-entry (format helm-man-format-switches file)) (condition-case nil (woman-find-file file) ;; If woman is unable to format correctly ;; try Man instead. (error (kill-buffer) (manual-entry (format helm-man-format-switches file)))))) ;; If even Man failed with file as argument, try again with Man ;; but using Topic candidate instead of the file calculated by ;; woman. (error (kill-buffer) (Man-getpage-in-background candidate))))) (defun helm-man--init () (require 'woman) (require 'helm-utils) (unless helm-man--pages (setq woman-expanded-directory-path (woman-expand-directory-path woman-manpath woman-path)) (setq woman-topic-all-completions (woman-topic-all-completions woman-expanded-directory-path)) (setq helm-man--pages (mapcar 'car woman-topic-all-completions))) (helm-init-candidates-in-buffer 'global helm-man--pages)) (defvar helm-source-man-pages (helm-build-in-buffer-source "Manual Pages" :init #'helm-man--init :persistent-action #'ignore :filtered-candidate-transformer (lambda (candidates _source) (sort candidates #'helm-generic-sort-fn)) :action '(("Display Man page" . helm-man-default-action)) :group 'helm-man)) ;;;###autoload (defun helm-man-woman (arg) "Preconfigured `helm' for Man and Woman pages. With a prefix arg reinitialize the cache." (interactive "P") (when arg (setq helm-man--pages nil)) (helm :sources 'helm-source-man-pages :buffer "*helm man woman*")) (provide 'helm-man) ;;; helm-man.el ends here