On 4/21/06, Ben Staniford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I notice that fish uses the man pages to complete man help style > completions. But is there any reason that man pages to build command > completions, rather than building completions manually? Man pages seem > to contain lots of things like OptDef that describe options that are > possible for commands.
Man-pages are rather losely structured, while there are many conventions, few of them are strictly followed by the individual pages, making it a very difficult task to correctly parse the structure of a man-page. That said, there is a project called doclifter, that tries to do just that. It could probably be used as the base for an automatic completion-parser. You are more than welcome to give it a try. > > Kind Regards, > > -- > Ben Staniford > http://www.staniford.net -- Axel ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
