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Split nix-env and nix-store documentation per-subcommand

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Documentation on "classic" commands with many sub-commands are
notoriously hard to discover due to lack of overview and anchor links.
Additionally the information on common options and environment variables
is not accessible offline in man pages, and therefore often overlooked
by readers.

With this change, each sub-command of nix-store and nix-env gets its
own page in the manual (listed in the table of contents), and each own
man page.

Also, man pages for each subcommand now (again) list common options
and environment variables. While this makes each page quite long and
some common parameters don't apply, this should still make it easier
to navigate as that additional information was not accessible on the
command line at all.

It is now possible to run 'nix-store --<subcommand> --help` to display
help pages for the given subcommand.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
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Alexander Bantyev 2023-03-23 19:27:41 +04:00 • committed by Valentin Gagarin
parent 84c2c09ec2
commit 36b059748d
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doc/manual/local.mk
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@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ man-pages := $(foreach n, \
nix.conf.5 nix-daemon.8 \
, $(d)/$(n))
# man pages for subcommands
# convert from `$(d)/src/command-ref/nix-{1}/{2}.md` to `$(d)/nix-{1}-{2}.1`
# FIXME: unify with how nix3-cli man pages are generated
man-pages += $(foreach subcommand, \
$(filter-out %opt-common.md %env-common.md, $(wildcard $(d)/src/command-ref/nix-*/*.md)), \
$(d)/$(subst /,-,$(subst $(d)/src/command-ref/,,$(subst .md,.1,$(subcommand)))))
clean-files += $(d)/*.1 $(d)/*.5 $(d)/*.8
# Provide a dummy environment for nix, so that it will not access files outside the macOS sandbox.
@ -38,6 +45,26 @@ define process-includes
done < <(grep '{{#include' $(1))
endef
$(d)/nix-env-%.1: $(d)/src/command-ref/nix-env/%.md
@printf "Title: %s\n\n" "$(subst nix-env-,nix-env --,$$(basename "$@" .1))" > $^.tmp
$(render-subcommand)
$(d)/nix-store-%.1: $(d)/src/command-ref/nix-store/%.md
@printf -- 'Title: %s\n\n' "$(subst nix-store-,nix-store --,$$(basename "$@" .1))" > $^.tmp
$(render-subcommand)
# FIXME: there surely is some more deduplication to be achieved here with even darker Make magic
define render-subcommand
@cat $^ >> $^.tmp
@$(call process-includes,$^,$^.tmp)
$(trace-gen) lowdown -sT man --nroff-nolinks -M section=1 $^.tmp -o $@
@# fix up `lowdown`'s automatic escaping of `--`
@# https://github.com/kristapsdz/lowdown/blob/edca6ce6d5336efb147321a43c47a698de41bb7c/entity.c#L202
@sed -i 's/\e\[u2013\]/--/' $@
@rm $^.tmp
endef
$(d)/%.1: $(d)/src/command-ref/%.md
@printf "Title: %s\n\n" "$$(basename $@ .1)" > $^.tmp
@cat $^ >> $^.tmp