;;; ol-man.el --- Links to man pages ;; ;; Author: Carsten Dominik ;; Keywords: outlines, hypermedia, calendar, wp ;; Homepage: https://orgmode.org ;; Version: 1.0 ;; ;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs. ;; ;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs. If not, see . ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; ;;; Commentary: (require 'ol) (org-link-set-parameters "man" :follow #'org-man-open :export #'org-man-export :store #'org-man-store-link) (defcustom org-man-command 'man "The Emacs command to be used to display a man page." :group 'org-link :type '(choice (const man) (const woman))) (defun org-man-open (path _) "Visit the manpage on PATH. PATH should be a topic that can be thrown at the man command. If PATH contains extra ::STRING which will use `occur' to search matched strings in man buffer." (string-match "\\(.*?\\)\\(?:::\\(.*\\)\\)?$" path) (let* ((command (match-string 1 path)) (search (match-string 2 path))) (funcall org-man-command command) (when search (with-current-buffer (concat "*Man " command "*") (goto-char (point-min)) (search-forward search))))) (defun org-man-store-link () "Store a link to a README file." (when (memq major-mode '(Man-mode woman-mode)) ;; This is a man page, we do make this link (let* ((page (org-man-get-page-name)) (link (concat "man:" page)) (description (format "Manpage for %s" page))) (org-link-store-props :type "man" :link link :description description)))) (defun org-man-get-page-name () "Extract the page name from the buffer name." ;; This works for both `Man-mode' and `woman-mode'. (if (string-match " \\(\\S-+\\)\\*" (buffer-name)) (match-string 1 (buffer-name)) (error "Cannot create link to this man page"))) (defun org-man-export (link description format) "Export a man page link from Org files." (let ((path (format "http://man.he.net/?topic=%s§ion=all" link)) (desc (or description link))) (cond ((eq format 'html) (format "%s" path desc)) ((eq format 'latex) (format "\\href{%s}{%s}" path desc)) ((eq format 'texinfo) (format "@uref{%s,%s}" path desc)) ((eq format 'ascii) (format "%s (%s)" desc path)) ((eq format 'md) (format "[%s](%s)" desc path)) (t path)))) (provide 'ol-man) ;;; ol-man.el ends here