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This patch adds a new viewer, tui, that provides an interactive interface using cursive. This viewer makes it possible to follow links to other documentation items and to open external links in a web browser.
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SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Robin Krahl <robin.krahl@ireas.org>
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SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
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# rusty-man
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```
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$ rusty-man rusty-man | head -5
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rusty-man Module rusty-man rusty-man
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DESCRIPTION
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rusty-man is a command-line viewer for documentation generated by
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`rustdoc`.
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```
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## Example Usage
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Before running rusty-man, make sure that you generated the documentation with
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`cargo doc`:
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```
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$ cd rusty-man && cargo doc
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```
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Then you can open the documentation for an item:
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```
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$ rusty-man kuchiki::NodeRef
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```
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You don’t have to specificy the full item name:
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```
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$ rusty-man NodeRef
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```
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If the documentation is not placed in `./target/doc` or the Rust installation
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directory, you have to manually set the source path using the `-s`/`--source`
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option:
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```
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$ rusty-man --source my/other/crate/target/doc io::Error
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```
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If there are multiple matches for the keyword, rusty-man will show you a list
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of all matching items:
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```
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$ rusty-man --source my/other/crate/target/doc u8
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Found mulitple matches for u8 – select one of:
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[ 0 ] core::u8: The 8-bit unsigned integer type.
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[ 1 ] std::u8: The 8-bit unsigned integer type.
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> 1
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```
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For more usage information, run `rusty-man --help`.
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## Viewers
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rusty-man has three viewers (select one with the `--viewer` option) that
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determine the output format:
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- `plain` prints the documentation to the standard output without formatting.
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This is the default for non-interactive use.
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- `rich` prints the documentation to the standard output with formatting and
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optional syntax highlighting. This is the default for interactive use.
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- `tui` is an interactive terminal interface. You can read the documentation
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and follow links.
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## Installation
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To install rusty-man from source, clone this repository and use cargo to build
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the project, or use `cargo install`. See the [`INSTALL.md`][] file for more
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information. rusty-man is also available as a package for these distributions:
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- Arch Linux: [`rusty-man`][pkg-aur] in the Arch User Repository
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rusty-man is developed for Unix-like systems. It should run on other platforms
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too, but with some limitations: The `rich` viewer uses ANSI escape codes,
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which are not supported on older Windows versions. The `tui` viewer requires
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the ncurses library. If you have trouble running rusty-man on your platform or
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if you want to help porting rusty-man to other platforms, please let me know.
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## Integrations
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### vim
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You can set rusty-man as the keyword program with `set keywordprg=rusty-man`
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and then use `K` to open the documentation for the item under the cursor. If
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you want to apply this setting for all Rust files, add it to the
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`ftplugin/rust.vim` file in your vim runtime directory (e. g. `~/.vim`).
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## Contributing
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Contributions to this project are very welcome! You can contribute by writing
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code or documentation or by testing. See the [`CONTRIBUTING.md`][] file for
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more information.
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If you are looking for a good starting point, have a look at the [issues with
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the label “good first issue”][issues] in rusty-man’s issue tracker.
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## Minimum Supported Rust Version
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This crate supports Rust 1.40 or later.
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## Contact
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For bug reports, patches, feature requests or other messages, please send a
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mail to the mailing list [~ireas/rusty-man-dev@lists.sr.ht][] ([public
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archive][]) or [contact me directly][]. You can also use the rusty-man [issue
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tracker][] for bug reports or features requests.
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## License
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This project is licensed under the [MIT License][]. For license information
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for the data used by the test suite, see the [`.reuse/dep5`][] file.
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`rusty-man` complies with [version 3.0 of the REUSE specification][reuse].
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[`crossterm`]: https://lib.rs/crossterm
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[`INSTALL.md`]: https://git.sr.ht/~ireas/rusty-man/tree/refs/heads/master/INSTALL.md
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[`CONTRIBUTING.md`]: https://git.sr.ht/~ireas/rusty-man/tree/refs/heads/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
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[issues]: https://todo.sr.ht/~ireas/rusty-man?search=label:%22good%20first%20issue%22%20status%3Aopen
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[~ireas/rusty-man-dev@lists.sr.ht]: mailto:~ireas/rusty-man-dev@lists.sr.ht
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[contact me directly]: mailto:robin.krahl@ireas.org
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[public archive]: https://lists.sr.ht/~ireas/rusty-man-dev
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[issue tracker]: https://todo.sr.ht/~ireas/rusty-man
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[MIT license]: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
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[`.reuse/dep5`]: https://git.sr.ht/~ireas/rusty-man/tree/refs/heads/master/.reuse/dep5
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[reuse]: https://reuse.software/practices/3.0/
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[pkg-aur]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rusty-man/
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