rusty-man/README.md
Robin Krahl 41dd007390
Use crossterm instead of termion
With this patch, we replace the termion dependency with crossterm.  This
should make it possible to compile and run rusty-man on other platforms
than Unix.
2020-07-24 13:18:35 +02:00

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# rusty-man
```
$ rusty-man rusty-man | head -4
rusty-man Module rusty-man rusty-man
DESCRIPTION
rusty-man is a command-line viewer for documentation generated by `rustdoc`.
```
## Example Usage
Before running rusty-man, make sure that you generated the documentation with
`cargo doc`:
```
$ cd rusty-man && cargo doc
```
Then you can open the documentation for an item:
```
$ rusty-man kuchiki::NodeRef
```
You dont have to specificy the full item name:
```
$ rusty-man NodeRef
```
If the documentation is not placed in `./target/doc` or
`/usr/share/doc/rust{,-doc}/html`, you have to manually set the source path
using the `-s`/`--source` option:
```
$ rusty-man --source ~/.rustup/toolchains/stable-*/share/doc/html io::Error
```
If there are multiple matches for the keyword, rusty-man will show you a list
of all matching items:
```
$ rusty-man --source ~/.rustup/toolchains/stable-*/share/doc/rust/html u8
Found mulitple matches for u8 select one of:
[ 0 ] core::u8: The 8-bit unsigned integer type.
[ 1 ] std::u8: The 8-bit unsigned integer type.
> 1
```
For more usage information, run `rusty-man --help`.
## Installation
To install rusty-man, clone this repository and use cargo to build the project.
See the [`INSTALL.md`](./INSTALL.md) file for more information.
rusty-man should run on all platforms supported by [`crossterm`][]. If you
have trouble running rusty-man on your platform or if you want to help porting
rusty-man to other platforms, please let me know.
## Contributing
Contributions to this project are very welcome! You can contribute by writing
code or documentation or by testing. See the [`CONTRIBUTING.md`][] file for
more information.
If you are looking for a good starting point, have a look at the [issues with
the label “good first issue”][issues] in rusty-mans issue tracker.
## Minimum Supported Rust Version
This crate supports Rust 1.40 or later.
## Contact
For bug reports, patches, feature requests or other messages, please send a
mail to the mailing list [~ireas/rusty-man-dev@lists.sr.ht][] ([public
archive][]) or [contact me directly][]. You can also use the rusty-man [issue
tracker][] for bug reports or features requests.
## License
This project is licensed under the [MIT License][].
`rusty-man` complies with [version 3.0 of the REUSE specification][reuse].
[`crossterm`]: https://lib.rs/crossterm
[`CONTRIBUTING.md`]: ./CONTRIBUTING.md
[issues]: https://todo.sr.ht/~ireas/rusty-man?search=label:%22good%20first%20issue%22%20status%3Aopen
[~ireas/rusty-man-dev@lists.sr.ht]: mailto:~ireas/rusty-man-dev@lists.sr.ht
[contact me directly]: mailto:robin.krahl@ireas.org
[public archive]: https://lists.sr.ht/~ireas/rusty-man-dev
[issue tracker]: https://todo.sr.ht/~ireas/rusty-man
[MIT license]: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
[reuse]: https://reuse.software/practices/3.0/