Parse out command descriptions from files for Sphinx man pages

sphinx expects that the description for a command (as appearing in its man
page) be provided in conf.py, not in the rst file itself. LLVM handles this
with some custom Python code that parses it out of the file. Do the same
thing in fish.
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ridiculousfish 2019-02-10 14:38:04 -08:00
parent c8dc306b18
commit fb75d0f848

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@ -144,6 +144,16 @@ latex_documents = [
# -- Options for manual page output ------------------------------------------
def get_command_description(path):
""" Return the description for a command, by parsing its first line """
with open(path) as fd:
title = fd.readline()
if ' - ' not in title:
raise SphinxWarning('No description in file %s' % os.path.basename(path))
_, desc = title.split(' - ', 1)
return desc.strip()
# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
man_pages = [
@ -153,7 +163,7 @@ man_pages = [
for path in sorted(glob.glob('cmds/*')):
docname = strip_ext(path)
cmd = os.path.basename(docname)
man_pages.append((docname, cmd, '', '', 1))
man_pages.append((docname, cmd, get_command_description(path), '', 1))
# -- Options for Texinfo output ----------------------------------------------