fish-shell/share/tools/create_manpage_completions.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Run me like this: ./create_manpage_completions.py /usr/share/man/man{1,8}/* > man_completions.fish

"""
<OWNER> = Siteshwar Vashisht
<YEAR> = 2012

Copyright (c) 2012, Siteshwar Vashisht
All rights reserved.

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"""

import string, sys, re, os.path, bz2, gzip, traceback, getopt, errno, codecs
from deroff import Deroffer

lzma_available = True
try:
    try:
        import lzma
    except ImportError:
        from backports import lzma
except ImportError:
    lzma_available = False

# Whether we're Python 3
IS_PY3 = sys.version_info[0] >= 3

# This gets set to the name of the command that we are currently executing
CMDNAME = ""

# Information used to track which of our parsers were successful
PARSER_INFO = {}

# built_command writes into this global variable, yuck
built_command_output = []

# Diagnostic output
diagnostic_output = []
diagnostic_indent = 0

# Three diagnostic verbosity levels
VERY_VERBOSE, BRIEF_VERBOSE, NOT_VERBOSE = 2, 1, 0

# Pick some reasonable default values for settings
global VERBOSITY, WRITE_TO_STDOUT, DEROFF_ONLY
VERBOSITY, WRITE_TO_STDOUT, DEROFF_ONLY = NOT_VERBOSE, False, False

def add_diagnostic(dgn, msg_verbosity = VERY_VERBOSE):
    # Add a diagnostic message, if msg_verbosity <= VERBOSITY
    if msg_verbosity <= VERBOSITY:
        diagnostic_output.append('   '*diagnostic_indent + dgn)

def flush_diagnostics(where):
    if diagnostic_output:
        output_str = '\n'.join(diagnostic_output) + '\n'
        where.write(output_str)
        diagnostic_output[:] = []

# Make sure we don't output the same completion multiple times, which can happen
# For example, xsubpp.1.gz and xsubpp5.10.1.gz
# This maps commands to lists of completions
already_output_completions = {}

def compile_and_search(regex, input):
    options_section_regex = re.compile(regex , re.DOTALL)
    options_section_matched = re.search( options_section_regex, input)
    return options_section_matched

def unquote_double_quotes(data):
    if (len(data) < 2):
        return data
    if data[0] == '"' and data[len(data)-1] == '"':
        data = data[1:len(data)-1]
    return data

def unquote_single_quotes(data):
    if (len(data) < 2):
        return data
    if data[0] == '`' and data[len(data)-1] == '\'':
        data = data[1:len(data)-1]
    return data


# Make a string of characters that are deemed safe in fish without needing to be escaped
# Note that space is not included
g_fish_safe_chars = frozenset(string.ascii_letters + string.digits + '_+-|/:=@~')

def fish_escape_single_quote(str):
    # Escape a string if necessary so that it can be put in single quotes
    # If it has no non-safe chars, there's nothing to do
    if g_fish_safe_chars.issuperset(str):
        return str

    str = str.replace('\\', '\\\\') # Replace one backslash with two
    str = str.replace("'", "\\'") # Replace one single quote with a backslash-single-quote
    return "'" + str + "'"

# Make a string Unicode by attempting to decode it as latin-1, or UTF8. See #658
def lossy_unicode(s):
    # All strings are unicode in Python 3
    if IS_PY3 or isinstance(s, unicode): return s
    try:
        return s.decode('latin-1')
    except UnicodeEncodeError:
        pass
    try:
        return s.decode('utf-8')
    except UnicodeEncodeError:
        pass
    return s.decode('latin-1', 'ignore')


def output_complete_command(cmdname, args, description, output_list):
    comps = ['complete -c', cmdname]
    comps.extend(args)
    if description:
        comps.append('--description')
        comps.append(description)
    output_list.append(lossy_unicode(' ').join([lossy_unicode(c) for c in comps]))

def built_command(options, description):
#    print "Options are: ", options
    man_optionlist = re.split(" |,|\"|=|[|]", options)
    fish_options = []
    for optionstr in man_optionlist:
        option = re.sub(r"(\[.*\])", "", optionstr)
        option = option.strip(" \t\r\n[](){}.,:!")


        # Skip some problematic cases
        if option in ['-', '--']: continue
        if any(c in "{}()" for c in option): continue

        if option.startswith('--'):
            # New style long option (--recursive)
            fish_options.append('-l ' + fish_escape_single_quote(option[2:]))
        elif option.startswith('-') and len(option) == 2:
            # New style short option (-r)
            fish_options.append('-s ' + fish_escape_single_quote(option[1:]))
        elif option.startswith('-') and len(option) > 2:
            # Old style long option (-recursive)
            fish_options.append('-o ' + fish_escape_single_quote(option[1:]))

    # Determine which options are new (not already in existing_options)
    # Then add those to the existing options
    existing_options = already_output_completions.setdefault(CMDNAME, set())
    fish_options = [opt for opt in fish_options if opt not in existing_options]
    existing_options.update(fish_options)

    # Maybe it's all for naught
    if not fish_options: return

    # Here's what we'll use to truncate if necessary
    max_description_width = 78
    if IS_PY3:
        truncation_suffix = '…'
    else:
        ELLIPSIS_CODE_POINT = 0x2026
        truncation_suffix = unichr(ELLIPSIS_CODE_POINT)

    # Try to include as many whole sentences as will fit
    # Clean up some probably bogus escapes in the process
    clean_desc = description.replace("\\'", "'").replace("\\.", ".")
    sentences = clean_desc.split('.')

    # Clean up "sentences" that are just whitespace
    # But don't let it be empty
    sentences = [x for x in sentences if x.strip()]
    if not sentences: sentences = ['']

    udot = lossy_unicode('.')
    uspace = lossy_unicode(' ')

    truncated_description = lossy_unicode(sentences[0]) + udot
    for line in sentences[1:]:
        if not line: continue
        proposed_description = lossy_unicode(truncated_description) + uspace + lossy_unicode(line) + udot
        if len(proposed_description) <= max_description_width:
            # It fits
            truncated_description = proposed_description
        else:
            # No fit
            break

    # If the first sentence does not fit, truncate if necessary
    if len(truncated_description) > max_description_width:
        prefix_len = max_description_width - len(truncation_suffix)
        truncated_description = truncated_description[:prefix_len] + truncation_suffix

    # Escape some more things
    truncated_description = fish_escape_single_quote(truncated_description)
    escaped_cmd = fish_escape_single_quote(CMDNAME)

    output_complete_command(escaped_cmd, fish_options, truncated_description, built_command_output)

def remove_groff_formatting(data):
    data = data.replace("\\fI","")
    data = data.replace("\\fP","")
    data = data.replace("\\f1","")
    data = data.replace("\\fB","")
    data = data.replace("\\fR","")
    data = data.replace("\\e","")
    data = re.sub(".PD( \d+)","",data)
    data = data.replace(".BI","")
    data = data.replace(".BR","")
    data = data.replace("0.5i","")
    data = data.replace(".rb","")
    data = data.replace("\\^","")
    data = data.replace("{ ","")
    data = data.replace(" }","")
    data = data.replace("\ ","")
    data = data.replace("\-","-")
    data = data.replace("\&","")
    data = data.replace(".B","")
    data = data.replace("\-","-")
    data = data.replace(".I","")
    data = data.replace("\f","")
    return data

class ManParser(object):
    def is_my_type(self, manpage):
        return False

    def parse_man_page(self, manpage):
        return False

class Type1ManParser(ManParser):
    def is_my_type(self, manpage):
        #   print manpage
        options_section_matched = compile_and_search("\.SH \"OPTIONS\"(.*?)", manpage)

        if options_section_matched == None:
            return False
        else:
            return True

    def parse_man_page(self, manpage):
        options_section_regex = re.compile( "\.SH \"OPTIONS\"(.*?)(\.SH|\Z)", re.DOTALL)
        options_section_matched = re.search( options_section_regex, manpage)

        options_section = options_section_matched.group(0)
        #   print options_section
        options_parts_regex = re.compile("\.PP(.*?)\.RE", re.DOTALL)
        options_matched = re.search(options_parts_regex, options_section)
        #   print options_matched
        add_diagnostic("Command is %r" % CMDNAME)

        if options_matched == None:
            add_diagnostic('Unable to find options')
            if( self.fallback(options_section) ):
                return True
            elif (self.fallback2(options_section) ):
                return True
            return False

        while (options_matched != None):
            data = options_matched.group(1)
            last_dotpp_index = data.rfind(".PP")
            if (last_dotpp_index != -1):
                data = data[last_dotpp_index+3:]

            data = remove_groff_formatting(data)
            data = data.split(".RS 4")
            if (len (data) > 1): #and len(data[1]) <= 300):
                optionName = data[0].strip()

                if ( optionName.find("-") == -1):
                    add_diagnostic("%r doesn't contain '-' " % optionName)
                else:
                    optionName = unquote_double_quotes(optionName)
                    optionName = unquote_single_quotes(optionName)
                    optionDescription = data[1].strip().replace("\n"," ")
                    built_command(optionName, optionDescription)

            else:
                add_diagnostic('Unable to split option from description')
                return False

            options_section = options_section[options_matched.end()-3:]
            options_matched = re.search(options_parts_regex, options_section)

    def fallback(self, options_section):
        add_diagnostic('Trying fallback')
        options_parts_regex = re.compile("\.TP( \d+)?(.*?)\.TP", re.DOTALL)
        options_matched = re.search(options_parts_regex, options_section)
        if options_matched == None:
            add_diagnostic('Still not found')
            return False
        while options_matched != None:
            data = options_matched.group(2)
            data = remove_groff_formatting(data)
            data = data.strip()
            data = data.split("\n",1)
            if (len(data)>1 and len(data[1].strip())>0): # and len(data[1])<400):
                optionName = data[0].strip()
                if ( optionName.find("-") == -1):
                    add_diagnostic("%r doesn't contain '-'" % optionName)
                else:
                    optionName = unquote_double_quotes(optionName)
                    optionName = unquote_single_quotes(optionName)
                    optionDescription = data[1].strip().replace("\n"," ")
                    built_command(optionName, optionDescription)
            else:
                add_diagnostic('Unable to split option from description')
                return False

            options_section = options_section[options_matched.end()-3:]
            options_matched = re.search(options_parts_regex, options_section)
        return True

    def fallback2(self, options_section):
        add_diagnostic('Trying last chance fallback')
        ix_remover_regex = re.compile("\.IX.*")
        trailing_num_regex = re.compile('\\d+$')
        options_parts_regex = re.compile("\.IP (.*?)\.IP", re.DOTALL)

        options_section = re.sub(ix_remover_regex, "", options_section)
        options_matched = re.search(options_parts_regex, options_section)
        if options_matched == None:
            add_diagnostic('Still (still!) not found')
            return False
        while options_matched != None:
            data = options_matched.group(1)

            data = remove_groff_formatting(data)
            data = data.strip()
            data = data.split("\n",1)
            if (len(data)>1 and len(data[1].strip())>0): # and len(data[1])<400):
                optionName = re.sub(trailing_num_regex, "", data[0].strip())

                if ('-' not in optionName):
                    add_diagnostic("%r doesn't contain '-'" % optionName)
                else:
                    optionName = optionName.strip()
                    optionName = unquote_double_quotes(optionName)
                    optionName = unquote_single_quotes(optionName)
                    optionDescription = data[1].strip().replace("\n"," ")
                    built_command(optionName, optionDescription)
            else:
                add_diagnostic('Unable to split option from description')
                return False

            options_section = options_section[options_matched.end()-3:]
            options_matched = re.search(options_parts_regex, options_section)
        return True

class Type2ManParser(ManParser):
    def is_my_type(self, manpage):
        options_section_matched = compile_and_search("\.SH OPTIONS(.*?)", manpage)

        if options_section_matched == None:
            return False
        else:
            return True

    def parse_man_page(self, manpage):
        options_section_regex = re.compile( "\.SH OPTIONS(.*?)(\.SH|\Z)", re.DOTALL)
        options_section_matched = re.search( options_section_regex, manpage)

        options_section = options_section_matched.group(1)

        options_parts_regex = re.compile("\.[I|T]P( \d+(\.\d)?i?)?(.*?)\.([I|T]P|UNINDENT)", re.DOTALL)
        options_matched = re.search(options_parts_regex, options_section)
        add_diagnostic('Command is %r' % CMDNAME)

        if options_matched == None:
            add_diagnostic("%r: Unable to find options" % self)
            return False

        while (options_matched != None):
            data = options_matched.group(3)

            data = remove_groff_formatting(data)

            data = data.strip()

            data = data.split("\n",1)
            if (len(data)>1 and len(data[1].strip())>0): # and len(data[1])<400):
                optionName = data[0].strip()
                if '-' not in optionName:
                    add_diagnostic("%r doesn't contain '-'" % optionName)
                else:
                    optionName = unquote_double_quotes(optionName)
                    optionName = unquote_single_quotes(optionName)
                    optionDescription = data[1].strip().replace("\n"," ")
                    built_command(optionName, optionDescription)
            else:
                add_diagnostic('Unable to split option from description')

            options_section = options_section[options_matched.end()-3:]
            options_matched = re.search(options_parts_regex, options_section)


class Type3ManParser(ManParser):
    def is_my_type(self, manpage):
        options_section_matched = compile_and_search("\.SH DESCRIPTION(.*?)", manpage)

        if options_section_matched == None:
            return False
        else:
            return True

    def parse_man_page(self, manpage):
        options_section_regex = re.compile( "\.SH DESCRIPTION(.*?)(\.SH|\Z)", re.DOTALL)
        options_section_matched = re.search( options_section_regex, manpage)

        options_section = options_section_matched.group(1)
        options_parts_regex = re.compile("\.TP(.*?)\.TP", re.DOTALL)
        options_matched = re.search(options_parts_regex, options_section)
        add_diagnostic("Command is %r" % CMDNAME)

        if options_matched == None:
            add_diagnostic('Unable to find options section')
            return False

        while (options_matched != None):
            data = options_matched.group(1)

            data = remove_groff_formatting(data)
            data = data.strip()
            data = data.split("\n",1)

            if (len(data)>1): # and len(data[1])<400):
                optionName = data[0].strip()
                if ( optionName.find("-") == -1):
                    add_diagnostic("%r doesn't contain '-'" % optionName)
                else:
                    optionName = unquote_double_quotes(optionName)
                    optionName = unquote_single_quotes(optionName)
                    optionDescription = data[1].strip().replace("\n"," ")
                    built_command(optionName, optionDescription)

            else:
                add_diagnostic('Unable to split option from description')
                return False

            options_section = options_section[options_matched.end()-3:]
            options_matched = re.search(options_parts_regex, options_section)


class Type4ManParser(ManParser):
    def is_my_type(self, manpage):
        options_section_matched = compile_and_search("\.SH FUNCTION LETTERS(.*?)", manpage)

        if options_section_matched == None:
            return False
        else:
            return True

    def parse_man_page(self, manpage):
        options_section_regex = re.compile( "\.SH FUNCTION LETTERS(.*?)(\.SH|\Z)", re.DOTALL)
        options_section_matched = re.search( options_section_regex, manpage)

        options_section = options_section_matched.group(1)
        options_parts_regex = re.compile("\.TP(.*?)\.TP", re.DOTALL)
        options_matched = re.search(options_parts_regex, options_section)
        add_diagnostic("Command is %r" % CMDNAME)

        if options_matched == None:
            print >> sys.stderr, "Unable to find options section"
            return False

        while (options_matched != None):
            data = options_matched.group(1)

            data = remove_groff_formatting(data)
            data = data.strip()
            data = data.split("\n",1)

            if (len(data)>1): # and len(data[1])<400):
                optionName = data[0].strip()
                if ( optionName.find("-") == -1):
                    add_diagnostic("%r doesn't contain '-' " % optionName)
                else:
                    optionName = unquote_double_quotes(optionName)
                    optionName = unquote_single_quotes(optionName)
                    optionDescription = data[1].strip().replace("\n"," ")
                    built_command(optionName, optionDescription)

            else:
                add_diagnostic('Unable to split option from description')
                return False

            options_section = options_section[options_matched.end()-3:]
            options_matched = re.search(options_parts_regex, options_section)

        return True

class TypeDarwinManParser(ManParser):
    def is_my_type(self, manpage):
        options_section_matched = compile_and_search("\.S[hH] DESCRIPTION", manpage)
        return options_section_matched != None

    def trim_groff(self, line):
        # Remove initial period
        if line.startswith('.'):
            line = line[1:]
        # Skip leading groff crud
        while re.match('[A-Z][a-z]\s', line):
            line = line[3:]

        # If the line ends with a space and then a period or comma, then erase the space
        # This hack handles lines of the form '.Ar projectname .'
        if line.endswith(' ,') or line.endswith(' .'):
            line = line[:-2] + line[-1]
        return line

    def count_argument_dashes(self, line):
        # Determine how many dashes the line has using the following regex hack
        # Look for the start of a line, followed by a dot, then a sequence of
        # one or more dashes ('Fl')
        result = 0
        if line.startswith('.'):
            line = line[4:]
            while line.startswith('Fl '):
                result = result + 1
                line = line[3:]
        return result

    # Replace some groff escapes. There's a lot we don't bother to handle.
    def groff_replace_escapes(self, line):
        line = line.replace('.Nm', CMDNAME)
        line = line.replace('\\ ', ' ')
        line = line.replace('\& ', '')
        return line

    def is_option(self, line):
        return line.startswith('.It Fl')

    def parse_man_page(self, manpage):
        got_something = False
        lines =  manpage.splitlines()
        # Discard lines until we get to ".sh Description"
        while lines and not (lines[0].startswith('.Sh DESCRIPTION') or lines[0].startswith('.SH DESCRIPTION')):
            lines.pop(0)

        while lines:
            # Pop until we get to the next option
            while lines and not self.is_option(lines[0]):
                lines.pop(0)

            if not lines:
                continue

            # Get the line and clean it up
            line = lines.pop(0)

            # Try to guess how many dashes this argument has
            dash_count = self.count_argument_dashes(line)

            line = self.groff_replace_escapes(line)
            line = self.trim_groff(line)
            line = line.strip()
            if not line: continue

            # Extract the name
            name = line.split(None, 2)[0]

            # Extract the description
            desc_lines = []
            while lines and not self.is_option(lines[0]):
                line = lossy_unicode(lines.pop(0).strip())
                # Ignore comments
                if line.startswith(r'.\"'):
                    continue
                if line.startswith('.'):
                    line = self.groff_replace_escapes(line)
                    line = self.trim_groff(line).strip()
                if line:
                    desc_lines.append(line)
            desc = ' '.join(desc_lines)

            if name == '-':
                # Skip double -- arguments
                continue
            elif len(name) > 1:
                # Output the command
                built_command(('-' * dash_count) + name, desc)
                got_something = True
            elif len(name) == 1:
                built_command('-' + name, desc)
                got_something = True

        return got_something


class TypeDeroffManParser(ManParser):
    def is_my_type(self, manpage):
        return True # We're optimists

    def is_option(self, line):
        return line.startswith('-')

    def could_be_description(self, line):
        return len(line) > 0 and not line.startswith('-')

    def parse_man_page(self, manpage):
        d = Deroffer()
        d.deroff(manpage)
        output = d.get_output()
        lines = output.split('\n')

        got_something = False

        # Discard lines until we get to DESCRIPTION or OPTIONS
        while lines and not (lines[0].startswith('DESCRIPTION') or lines[0].startswith('OPTIONS') or lines[0].startswith('COMMAND OPTIONS')):
            lines.pop(0)

        # Look for BUGS and stop there
        for idx in range(len(lines)):
            line = lines[idx]
            if line.startswith('BUGS'):
                # Drop remaining elements
                lines[idx:] = []
                break

        while lines:
            # Pop until we get to the next option
            while lines and not self.is_option(lines[0]):
                line = lines.pop(0)

            if not lines:
                continue

            options = lines.pop(0)

            # Pop until we get to either an empty line or a line starting with -
            description = ''
            while lines and self.could_be_description(lines[0]):
                if description: description += ' '
                description += lines.pop(0)

            built_command(options, description)
            got_something = True

        return got_something

# Return whether the file at the given path is overwritable
# Raises IOError if it cannot be opened
def file_is_overwritable(path):
    result = False
    file = codecs.open(path, "r", encoding="utf-8")
    for line in file:
        # Skip leading empty lines
        line = line.strip()
        if not line:
            continue

        # We look in the initial run of lines that start with #
        if not line.startswith('#'):
            break

        # See if this contains the magic word
        if 'Autogenerated' in line:
            result = True
            break

    file.close()
    return result

# Remove any and all autogenerated completions in the given directory
def cleanup_autogenerated_completions_in_directory(dir):
    try:
        for filename in os.listdir(dir):
            # Skip non .fish files
            if not filename.endswith('.fish'): continue
            path = os.path.join(dir, filename)
            cleanup_autogenerated_file(path)
    except OSError as err:
        return False


# Delete the file if it is autogenerated
def cleanup_autogenerated_file(path):
    try:
        if file_is_overwritable(path):
            os.remove(path)
    except (OSError, IOError):
        pass

def parse_manpage_at_path(manpage_path, output_directory):
    filename = os.path.basename(manpage_path)

    # Clear diagnostics
    global diagnostic_indent
    diagnostic_output[:] = []
    diagnostic_indent = 0

    # Set up some diagnostics
    add_diagnostic('Considering ' + manpage_path)
    diagnostic_indent += 1

    if manpage_path.endswith('.gz'):
        fd = gzip.open(manpage_path, 'r')
        manpage = fd.read()
        if IS_PY3: manpage = manpage.decode('latin-1')
    elif manpage_path.endswith('.bz2'):
        fd = bz2.BZ2File(manpage_path, 'r')
        manpage = fd.read()
        if IS_PY3: manpage = manpage.decode('latin-1')
    elif manpage_path.endswith('.xz') or manpage_path.endswith('.lzma'):
        if not lzma_available:
            return
        fd = lzma.LZMAFile(str(manpage_path), 'r')
        manpage = fd.read()
        if IS_PY3: manpage = manpage.decode('latin-1')
    elif manpage_path.endswith((".1", ".2", ".3", ".4", ".5", ".6", ".7", ".8", ".9")):
        if IS_PY3:
            fd = open(manpage_path, 'r', encoding='latin-1')
        else:
            fd = open(manpage_path, 'r')
        manpage = fd.read()
    else:
        return
    fd.close()

    manpage = str(manpage)

    # Get the "base" command, e.g. gcc.1.gz -> gcc
    cmd_base = CMDNAME.split('.', 1)[0]
    ignoredcommands = ["cc", "g++", "gcc", "c++", "cpp", "emacs", "gprof", "wget", "ld", "awk"]
    if cmd_base in ignoredcommands:
        return

    # Ignore perl's gazillion man pages
    ignored_prefixes = ['perl', 'zsh']
    for prefix in ignored_prefixes:
        if cmd_base.startswith(prefix):
            return

    # Ignore the millions of links to BUILTIN(1)
    if 'BUILTIN 1' in manpage or 'builtin.1' in manpage:
        return

    # Clear the output list
    built_command_output[:] = []

    if DEROFF_ONLY:
        parsers = [TypeDeroffManParser()]
    else:
        parsers = [Type1ManParser(), Type2ManParser(), Type4ManParser(), Type3ManParser(), TypeDarwinManParser(), TypeDeroffManParser()]
    parsersToTry = [p for p in parsers if p.is_my_type(manpage)]

    success = False
    if not parsersToTry:
        add_diagnostic(manpage_path + ": Not supported")
    else:
        for parser in parsersToTry:
            add_diagnostic('Trying %s' % parser.__class__.__name__)
            diagnostic_indent += 1
            success = parser.parse_man_page(manpage)
            diagnostic_indent -= 1
            # Make sure empty files aren't reported as success
            if not built_command_output:
                success = False
            if success:
                PARSER_INFO.setdefault(parser.__class__.__name__, []).append(CMDNAME)
                break

        if success:
            if WRITE_TO_STDOUT:
                output_file = sys.stdout
            else:
                fullpath = os.path.join(output_directory, CMDNAME + '.fish')
                try:
                    output_file = codecs.open(fullpath, "w", encoding="utf-8")
                except IOError as err:
                    add_diagnostic("Unable to open file '%s': error(%d): %s" % (fullpath, err.errno, err.strerror))
                    return False

            built_command_output.insert(0, "# " + CMDNAME)

            # Output the magic word Autogenerated so we can tell if we can overwrite this
            built_command_output.insert(1, "# Autogenerated from man page " + manpage_path)
            # built_command_output.insert(2, "# using " + parser.__class__.__name__) # XXX MISATTRIBUTES THE CULPABILE PARSER! Was really using Type2 but reporting TypeDeroffManParser

            for line in built_command_output:
                output_file.write(line)
                output_file.write('\n')
            output_file.write('\n')
            add_diagnostic(manpage_path + ' parsed successfully')
            if output_file != sys.stdout:
                output_file.close()
        else:
            parser_names =  ', '.join(p.__class__.__name__ for p in parsersToTry)
            #add_diagnostic('%s contains no options or is unparsable' % manpage_path, BRIEF_VERBOSE)
            add_diagnostic('%s contains no options or is unparsable (tried parser %s)' % (manpage_path, parser_names), BRIEF_VERBOSE)

    return success

def parse_and_output_man_pages(paths, output_directory, show_progress):
    global diagnostic_indent, CMDNAME
    paths.sort()
    total_count = len(paths)
    successful_count, index = 0, 0
    padding_len = len(str(total_count))
    last_progress_string_length = 0
    if show_progress and not WRITE_TO_STDOUT:
        print("Parsing man pages and writing completions to {0}".format(output_directory))

    man_page_suffixes = set([os.path.splitext(m)[1][1:] for m in paths])
    lzma_xz_occurs = "xz" in man_page_suffixes or "lzma" in man_page_suffixes
    if lzma_xz_occurs and not lzma_available:
        add_diagnostic('At least one man page is compressed with lzma or xz, but the "lzma" module is not available.'
                       ' Any man page compressed with either will be skipped.',
                       NOT_VERBOSE)
        flush_diagnostics(sys.stderr)

    for manpage_path in paths:
        index += 1

        # Get the "base" command, e.g. gcc.1.gz -> gcc
        man_file_name = os.path.basename(manpage_path)
        CMDNAME = man_file_name.split('.', 1)[0]
        output_file_name = CMDNAME + '.fish'

        # Show progress if we're doing that
        if show_progress:
            progress_str = '  {0} / {1} : {2}'.format((str(index).rjust(padding_len)), total_count, man_file_name)
            # Pad on the right with spaces so we overwrite whatever we wrote last time
            padded_progress_str = progress_str.ljust(last_progress_string_length)
            last_progress_string_length = len(progress_str)
            sys.stdout.write("\r{0}\r".format(padded_progress_str))
            sys.stdout.flush()

        # Maybe we want to skip this item
        skip = False
        if not WRITE_TO_STDOUT:
            # Compute the path that we would write to
            output_path = os.path.join(output_directory, output_file_name)

        # Now skip if requested
        if skip:
            continue

        try:
            if parse_manpage_at_path(manpage_path, output_directory):
                successful_count += 1
        except IOError:
            diagnostic_indent = 0
            add_diagnostic('Cannot open ' + manpage_path)
        except (KeyboardInterrupt, SystemExit):
            raise
        except:
            add_diagnostic('Error parsing %s: %s' % (manpage_path, sys.exc_info()[0]), BRIEF_VERBOSE)
            flush_diagnostics(sys.stderr)
            traceback.print_exc(file=sys.stderr)
        flush_diagnostics(sys.stderr)
    print("") #Newline after loop
    add_diagnostic("Successfully parsed %d / %d pages" % (successful_count, total_count), BRIEF_VERBOSE)
    flush_diagnostics(sys.stderr)

def get_paths_from_man_locations():
    # Return all the paths to man(1) and man(8) files in the manpath
    import subprocess, os
    proc = None
    # $MANPATH takes precedence, just like with `man` on the CLI.
    if os.getenv("MANPATH"):
        parent_paths = os.getenv("MANPATH").strip().split(':')
    else:
        # Some systems have manpath, others have `man --path` (like Haiku).
        for prog in [['manpath'], ['man', '--path']]:
            try:
                proc = subprocess.Popen(prog, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
            except OSError: # Command does not exist, keep trying
                continue
            break # Command exists, use it.
        manpath, err_data = proc.communicate()
        parent_paths = manpath.decode().strip().split(':')
    if (not parent_paths) or (proc and proc.returncode > 0):
        # HACK: Use some fallbacks in case we can't get anything else.
        # `mandoc` does not provide `manpath` or `man --path` and $MANPATH might not be set.
        # The alternative is reading its config file (/etc/man.conf)
        if os.path.isfile('/etc/man.conf'):
            data = open('/etc/man.conf', 'r')
            for line in data:
                if ('manpath' in line or 'MANPATH' in line):
                    p = line.split(' ')[1]
                    p = p.split()[0]
                    parent_paths.append(p)
        if (not parent_paths):
            sys.stderr.write("Unable to get the manpath, falling back to /usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man. Please set $MANPATH if that is not correct.\n")
        parent_paths = ["/usr/share/man", "/usr/local/share/man"]
    result = []
    for parent_path in parent_paths:
        for section in ['man1', 'man6', 'man8']:
            directory_path = os.path.join(parent_path, section)
            try:
                names = os.listdir(directory_path)
            except OSError as e:
                names = []
            names.sort()
            for name in names:
                result.append(os.path.join(directory_path, name))
    return result

def usage(script_name):
    print("Usage: {0} [-v, --verbose] [-s, --stdout] [-d, --directory] [-p, --progress] files...".format(script_name))
    print("""Command options are:
     -h, --help\t\tShow this help message
     -v, --verbose [0, 1, 2]\tShow debugging output to stderr. Larger is more verbose.
     -s, --stdout\tWrite all completions to stdout (trumps the --directory option)
     -d, --directory [dir]\tWrite all completions to the given directory, instead of to ~/.local/share/fish/generated_completions
     -m, --manpath\tProcess all man1 and man8 files available in the manpath (as determined by manpath)
     -p, --progress\tShow progress
    """)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    script_name = sys.argv[0]
    try:
        opts, file_paths = getopt.gnu_getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'v:sd:hmpc:z', ['verbose=', 'stdout', 'directory=', 'cleanup-in=', 'help', 'manpath', 'progress'])
    except getopt.GetoptError as err:
        print(err.msg) # will print something like "option -a not recognized"
        usage(script_name)
        sys.exit(2)

    # Directories within which we will clean up autogenerated completions
    # This script originally wrote completions into ~/.config/fish/completions
    # Now it writes them into a separate directory
    cleanup_directories = []

    use_manpath, show_progress, custom_dir = False, False, False
    output_directory = ''
    for opt, value in opts:
        if opt in ('-v', '--verbose'):
            VERBOSITY = int(value)
        elif opt in ('-s', '--stdout'):
            WRITE_TO_STDOUT = True
        elif opt in ('-d', '--directory'):
            output_directory = value
        elif opt in ('-h', '--help'):
            usage(script_name)
            sys.exit(0)
        elif opt in ('-m', '--manpath'):
            use_manpath = True
        elif opt in ('-p', '--progress'):
            show_progress = True
        elif opt in ('-c', '--cleanup-in'):
            cleanup_directories.append(value)
        elif opt in ('-z',):
            DEROFF_ONLY = True
        else:
            assert False, "unhandled option"

    if use_manpath:
        # Fetch all man1 and man8 files from the manpath or man.conf
        file_paths.extend(get_paths_from_man_locations())

    if cleanup_directories:
        for cleanup_dir in cleanup_directories:
            cleanup_autogenerated_completions_in_directory(cleanup_dir)

    if not file_paths:
        print("No paths specified")
        sys.exit(0)

    if not WRITE_TO_STDOUT and not output_directory:
        # Default to ~/.local/share/fish/generated_completions/
        # Create it if it doesn't exist
        xdg_data_home = os.getenv('XDG_DATA_HOME', '~/.local/share')
        output_directory = os.path.expanduser(xdg_data_home + '/fish/generated_completions/')
        try:
            os.makedirs(output_directory)
        except OSError as e:
            if e.errno != errno.EEXIST:
                raise

    if not WRITE_TO_STDOUT:
        # Remove old generated files
        cleanup_autogenerated_completions_in_directory(output_directory)

    parse_and_output_man_pages(file_paths, output_directory, show_progress)