* lisp/man.el: Handle different "man -k" behaviors. Use utf-8.

(Man-man-k-use-anchor): New var.
(Man-parse-man-k): New function.
(Man-completion-table): Use it.
(man): Flush the completion cache between uses.
* test/automated/man-tests.el: New file.

Fixes: debbugs:13160
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Wolfgang Jenkner 2013-01-10 10:01:35 -05:00 committed by Stefan Monnier
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2013-01-10 Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
* man.el: Handle different "man -k" behaviors (bug#13160). Use utf-8.
(Man-man-k-use-anchor): New var.
(Man-parse-man-k): New function.
(Man-completion-table): Use it.
(man): Flush the completion cache between uses.
2013-01-10 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
* autorevert.el: Add file watch support.

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;;; man.el --- browse UNIX manual pages -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
;;; man.el --- browse UNIX manual pages -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
;; Copyright (C) 1993-1994, 1996-1997, 2001-2013 Free Software
;; Foundation, Inc.
@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ Used in `bookmark-set' to get the default bookmark name."
:type 'hook
:group 'man)
(defvar Man-name-regexp "[-a-zA-Z0-9_­+][-a-zA-Z0-9_.:­+]*"
(defvar Man-name-regexp "[-a-zA-Z0-9_­+][-a-zA-Z0-9_.:­+]*"
"Regular expression describing the name of a manpage (without section).")
(defvar Man-section-regexp "[0-9][a-zA-Z0-9+]*\\|[LNln]"
@ -780,6 +780,59 @@ POS defaults to `point'."
;; but apparently that's not the case in all cases, so let's add a cache.
"Cache of completion table of the form (PREFIX . TABLE).")
(defvar Man-man-k-use-anchor
;; man-db or man-1.*
(memq system-type '(gnu gnu/linux gnu/kfreebsd))
"If non-nil prepend ^ to the prefix passed to \"man -k\" for completion.
The value should be nil if \"man -k ^PREFIX\" may omit some man
pages whose names start with PREFIX.
Currently, the default value depends on `system-type' and is
non-nil where the standard man programs are known to behave
properly. Setting the value to nil always gives correct results
but computing the list of completions may take a bit longer.")
(defun Man-parse-man-k ()
"Parse \"man -k\" output and return the list of page names.
The current buffer should contain the output of a command of the
form \"man -k keyword\", which is traditionally also available with
apropos(1).
While POSIX man(1p) is a bit vague about what to expect here,
this function tries to parse some commonly used formats, which
can be described in the following informal way, with square brackets
indicating optional parts and whitespace being interpreted
somewhat loosely.
foo[, bar [, ...]] [other stuff] (sec) - description
foo(sec)[, bar(sec) [, ...]] [other stuff] - description
For more details and some regression tests, please see
test/automated/man-tests.el in the emacs bzr repository."
(goto-char (point-min))
;; See man-tests for data about which systems use which format (hopefully we
;; will be able to simplify the code if/when some of those formats aren't
;; used any more).
(let (table)
(while (search-forward-regexp "^\\([^ \t,\n]+\\)\\(.*?\\)\
\\(?:[ \t]\\(([^ \t,\n]+?)\\)\\)?\\(?:[ \t]+- ?\\(.*\\)\\)?$" nil t)
(let ((section (match-string 3))
(description (match-string 4))
(bound (match-end 2)))
(goto-char (match-end 1))
(while
(progn
;; The first regexp grouping may already match the section
;; tacked on to the name, which is ok since for the formats we
;; claim to support the third (non-shy) grouping does not
;; match in this case, i.e., section is nil.
(push (propertize (concat (match-string 1) section)
'help-echo description)
table)
(search-forward-regexp "\\=, *\\([^ \t,]+\\)" bound t)))))
(nreverse table)))
(defun Man-completion-table (string pred action)
(cond
;; This ends up returning t for pretty much any string, and hence leads to
@ -811,16 +864,15 @@ POS defaults to `point'."
;; run differently in Man-getpage-in-background, an error
;; here may not necessarily mean that we'll also get an
;; error later.
(ignore-errors
(call-process manual-program nil '(t nil) nil
"-k" (concat "^" prefix))))
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (re-search-forward "^\\([^ \t\n]+\\)\\(?: ?\\((.+?)\\)\\(?:[ \t]+- \\(.*\\)\\)?\\)?" nil t)
(push (propertize (concat (match-string 1) (match-string 2))
'help-echo (match-string 3))
table)))
;; Cache the table for later reuse.
(setq Man-completion-cache (cons prefix table)))
(ignore-errors
(call-process manual-program nil '(t nil) nil
"-k" (concat (when (or Man-man-k-use-anchor
(string-equal prefix ""))
"^")
prefix))))
(setq table (Man-parse-man-k)))
;; Cache the table for later reuse.
(setq Man-completion-cache (cons prefix table)))
;; The table may contain false positives since the match is made
;; by "man -k" not just on the manpage's name.
(if section
@ -891,6 +943,7 @@ names or descriptions. The pattern argument is usually an
;; ("man -k" is case-insensitive similarly, so the
;; table has everything available to complete)
(completion-ignore-case t)
Man-completion-cache ;Don't cache across calls.
(input (completing-read
(format "Manual entry%s"
(if (string= default-entry "")
@ -1395,7 +1448,7 @@ The following key bindings are currently in effect in the buffer:
;; Update len, in case a reference spans
;; more than two lines (paranoia).
len (1- (length word))))
(if (memq (aref word len) '(?- ?­))
(if (memq (aref word len) '(?- ?­))
(setq hyphenated (substring word 0 len)))
(and (string-match Man-reference-regexp word)
(not (member word Man--refpages))

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2013-01-10 Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
* automated/man-tests.el: New file.
2013-01-09 Aaron S. Hawley <aaron.s.hawley@gmail.com>
* automated/undo-tests.el (undo-test0): Adjust error to code change.

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;;; man-tests.el --- Test suite for man.
;; Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Author: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
;; Keywords: help, internal, unix
;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
;; GNU Emacs 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 of the License, or
;; (at your option) any later version.
;; GNU Emacs 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 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
;;; Code:
(require 'ert)
(require 'man)
(defconst man-tests-parse-man-k-tests
'(;; GNU/Linux: man-db-2.6.1
("\
sin (3) - sine function
sinf (3) - sine function
sinl (3) - sine function"
. (#("sin(3)" 0 6 (help-echo "sine function")) #("sinf(3)" 0 7 (help-echo "sine function")) #("sinl(3)" 0 7 (help-echo "sine function"))))
;; GNU/Linux: man-1.6g
("\
sin (3) - sine function
sinf [sin] (3) - sine function
sinl [sin] (3) - sine function"
. (#("sin(3)" 0 6 (help-echo "sine function")) #("sinf(3)" 0 7 (help-echo "sine function")) #("sinl(3)" 0 7 (help-echo "sine function"))))
;; FreeBSD 9
("\
sin(3), sinf(3), sinl(3) - sine functions"
. (#("sin(3)" 0 6 (help-echo "sine functions")) #("sinf(3)" 0 7 (help-echo "sine functions")) #("sinl(3)" 0 7 (help-echo "sine functions"))))
;; SunOS, Solaris
;; http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/805-6331/usradm-7/index.html
;; SunOS 4
("\
tset, reset (1) - establish or restore terminal characteristics"
. (#("tset(1)" 0 7 (help-echo "establish or restore terminal characteristics")) #("reset(1)" 0 8 (help-echo "establish or restore terminal characteristics"))))
;; SunOS 5.7, Solaris
("\
reset tset (1b) - establish or restore terminal characteristics
tset tset (1b) - establish or restore terminal characteristics"
. (#("reset(1b)" 0 8 (help-echo "establish or restore terminal characteristics")) #("tset(1b)" 0 7 (help-echo "establish or restore terminal characteristics"))))
;; Minix 3
;; http://www.minix3.org/manpages/html5/whatis.html
("\
cawf, nroff (1) - C version of the nroff-like, Amazingly Workable (text) Formatter
whatis (5) - database of online manual pages"
. (#("cawf(1)" 0 7 (help-echo "C version of the nroff-like, Amazingly Workable (text) Formatter")) #("nroff(1)" 0 8 (help-echo "C version of the nroff-like, Amazingly Workable (text) Formatter")) #("whatis(5)" 0 9 (help-echo "database of online manual pages"))))
;; HP-UX
;; http://docstore.mik.ua/manuals/hp-ux/en/B2355-60130/man.1.html
;; Assuming that the line break in the zgrep description was
;; introduced by the man page formatting.
("\
grep, egrep, fgrep (1) - search a file for a pattern
zgrep(1) - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression"
. (#("grep(1)" 0 7 (help-echo "search a file for a pattern")) #("egrep(1)" 0 8 (help-echo "search a file for a pattern")) #("fgrep(1)" 0 8 (help-echo "search a file for a pattern")) #("zgrep(1)" 0 8 (help-echo "search possibly compressed files for a regular expression"))))
;; AIX
;; http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds6/whatis.htm
("\
ls(1) -Displays the contents of a directory."
. (#("ls(1)" 0 5 (help-echo "Displays the contents of a directory."))))
;; https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/cgaix/entry/catman_0703_102_usr_lbin_mkwhatis_the_error_number_is_1?lang=en
("\
loopmount(1) - Associate an image file to a loopback device."
. (#("loopmount(1)" 0 12 (help-echo "Associate an image file to a loopback device."))))
)
"List of tests for `Man-parse-man-k'.
Each element is a cons cell whose car is a string containing
man -k output. That should result in the table which is stored
in the cdr of the element.")
(defun man-tests-name-equal-p (name description string)
(and (equal name string)
(not (next-single-property-change 0 'help-echo string))
(equal (get-text-property 0 'help-echo string) description)))
(defun man-tests-parse-man-k-test-case (test)
(let ((temp-buffer (get-buffer-create " *test-man*"))
(man-k-output (car test)))
(unwind-protect
(save-window-excursion
(with-current-buffer temp-buffer
(erase-buffer)
(insert man-k-output)
(let ((result (Man-parse-man-k))
(checklist (cdr test)))
(while (and checklist result
(man-tests-name-equal-p
(car checklist)
(get-text-property 0 'help-echo
(car checklist))
(pop result)))
(pop checklist))
(and (null checklist) (null result)))))
(and (buffer-name temp-buffer)
(kill-buffer temp-buffer)))))
(ert-deftest man-tests ()
"Test man."
(dolist (test man-tests-parse-man-k-tests)
(should (man-tests-parse-man-k-test-case test))))
(provide 'man-tests)
;;; man-tests.el ends here