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29 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Valentin Gagarin
5d78dc4176
doc rendering: add functions to scope explicitly (#7378)
* doc rendering: add functions to scope explicitly

this especially helps beginners with code readability, since the origin
of names is always immediately visible.
2023-05-03 07:16:29 +00:00
John Ericson
ba9ae691b6 Add optionalString to manual Nix lang utilities
Use it everywhere it could be also.
2023-04-16 10:57:46 -04:00
John Ericson
d93e76fbb8 Start cross-referencing experimental features
- Create a glossary entry for experimental features.

- Have the man page experimental feature notice link `nix-commmand`.

  (Eventually this should be programmed, based on whether the command is
  experimental, and if so what experimental feature does it depend on.)

- Document which installables depend on which experimental features.

  I tried to use the same style (bold warning and block quote) that the
  top of the man page uses.

Co-authored-by: Valentin Gagarin <valentin.gagarin@tweag.io>
2023-04-14 07:45:08 -04:00
Eelco Dolstra
2851e239a7 Make useAnchors a named argument 2023-03-23 10:08:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9eb53bbf17 Support per-store Markdown documentation 2023-03-21 14:03:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
8d6d59cb1b nix store --help: Include store type documentation 2023-03-21 14:03:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
6f62cb3611 generate-manpage.nix: Make more readable 2023-03-21 12:11:32 +01:00
Valentin Gagarin
3f881e3378
add missing newline, for consistent formatting 2022-11-30 23:40:53 +01:00
Ana Hobden
069409d167 Print common flags in --help 2022-10-07 09:07:22 -07:00
Valentin Gagarin
d8bef7358f bring back lost newline 2022-09-30 01:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
70eea97742 use more self-explanatory names 2022-09-30 01:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
61188cb820 move final template to the top
this allows readers to enter the code starting with what is visible from
the outside, instead of working themselves up from purely technical details.
2022-09-30 01:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
0e0f1832de remove superfluous let-in pair 2022-09-30 01:43:57 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
a85df04fcb refactor showOptions
it was quite a pain to manipulate strings just with `builtins`
2022-09-30 01:43:53 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
4655563470 refactor rendering command documentation to markdown
idea:
- make document structure visible, like in a template
- order functions by descending abstraction
- avoid nested let bindings
2022-09-30 01:42:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
6b56bb4a79 use indented strings where appropriate 2022-09-30 01:42:46 +02:00
Valentin Gagarin
e7dcacbd7c do not render relative links in help pages
this simplifies the setup a lot, and avoids weird looking `./file.md`
links showing up.

it also does not show regular URLs any more. currently the command
reference only has few of them, and not showing them in the offline
documentation is hopefully not a big deal.

instead of building more special-case solutions, clumsily preprocessing
the input, or issuing verbal rules on dealing with URLs, should better
be solved sustainably by not rendering relative links in `lowdown`:

https://github.com/kristapsdz/lowdown/issues/105
2022-08-26 17:10:41 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
08aa7daee0 Remove links to .md files in help output
Fixes #5337.
2021-10-06 13:01:18 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
49a932fb18 nix --help: Display help using lowdown instead of man
Fixes #4476.
Fixes #5231.
2021-09-13 14:45:21 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
6042febfce Restore warning about 'nix' being experimental
Fixes #4552.
2021-02-17 15:30:49 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
36c4d6f592 Group common options 2021-01-25 19:03:13 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
807d963ee8 Group subcommands by category 2021-01-25 18:19:32 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
1047cb1e53
Command: Remove examples() 2020-12-23 18:26:40 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
9dcd0aebc5
generate-manpage.nix: Fix short names 2020-12-21 13:32:27 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
c3c858ac6d Make doc() return arbitrary Markdown rather than the contents of the "Description" section
Thus we can return the examples section (and any other sections) from
doc() and don't need examples() anymore.
2020-12-03 16:17:58 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
e2efc63979 Put examples first in the manpages 2020-12-02 23:23:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
72428e38d9 Generate separate manpages for each nix subcommand 2020-12-02 23:23:23 +01:00
Eelco Dolstra
58dadf2954 Remove stray 'Title:' from the manual
Closes #4096.
2020-10-08 17:30:40 +02:00
Eelco Dolstra
39bc49318f jq -> nix 2020-09-16 14:58:06 +02:00