rusty-man/README.md
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Use ansi_term, atty, terminal_size
This patch replaces the crossterm dependency with ansi_term, atty and
terminal_size.  This allows us for an easier integration with the
text_style crate in an upcoming patch, and it reduces the total number
of dependencies from 166 to 160.

This means that we drop support for non-ANSI terminals, but as this only
affects old versions of cmd.exe/PowerShell, we don’t care about it.
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# rusty-man
```
$ rusty-man rusty-man | head -5
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 the Rust installation
directory, you have to manually set the source path using the `-s`/`--source`
option:
```
$ rusty-man --source my/other/crate/target/doc io::Error
```
If there are multiple matches for the keyword, rusty-man will show you a list
of all matching items:
```
$ rusty-man --source my/other/crate/target/doc 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 from source, clone this repository and use cargo to build
the project, or use `cargo install`. See the [`INSTALL.md`][] file for more
information. rusty-man is also available as a package for these distributions:
- Arch Linux: [`rusty-man`][pkg-aur] in the Arch User Repository
rusty-man should run on all platforms, but the `rich` viewer is only available
for ANSI terminals. 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.
## Integrations
### vim
You can set rusty-man as the keyword program with `set keywordprg=rusty-man`
and then use `K` to open the documentation for the item under the cursor. If
you want to apply this setting for all Rust files, add it to the
`ftplugin/rust.vim` file in your vim runtime directory (e. g. `~/.vim`).
## 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][]. For license information
for the data used by the test suite, see the [`.reuse/dep5`][] file.
`rusty-man` complies with [version 3.0 of the REUSE specification][reuse].
[`crossterm`]: https://lib.rs/crossterm
[`INSTALL.md`]: https://git.sr.ht/~ireas/rusty-man/tree/refs/heads/master/INSTALL.md
[`CONTRIBUTING.md`]: https://git.sr.ht/~ireas/rusty-man/tree/refs/heads/master/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/dep5`]: https://git.sr.ht/~ireas/rusty-man/tree/refs/heads/master/.reuse/dep5
[reuse]: https://reuse.software/practices/3.0/
[pkg-aur]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rusty-man/