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authorRobin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com>2016-02-26 02:02:50 +0100
committerRobin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com>2016-11-18 07:05:52 +0100
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implemented self-documenting (online) help system
* the new "?" (help) command can be used to look up help topics. * help topics are index from $SCITECOPATH/women/*.woman.tec files. * looking up a help topic opens the corresponding "womanpage" and jumps to the position of the topic (it acts like an anchor into the document). * styling is performed by *.woman.tec files. * Setting up the Scintilla view and munging the *.tec file is performed by the new "woman.tes" lexer. On supporting UIs (Gtk), womanpages are shown in a variable-width font. * Woman pages are usually not hand-written, but generated from manpages. A special Groff post-processor grosciteco has been introduced for this purpose. It is much like grotty, but can output SciTECO macros for styling the document (ie. the *.woman.tec files). It is documented in its own man-page. * grosciteco also introduces sciteco.tmac - special Troff macros for controlling the formatting of the document in SciTECO. It also defines .SCITECO_TOPIC which can be used to mark up help topics/terms in Troff markup. * Woman pages are generated/formatted by grosciteco at compile-time, so they will work on platforms without Groff (ie. as on windows). * Groff has been added as a hard compile-time requirement. * The sciteco(1) and sciteco(7) man pages have been augmented with help topic anchors.
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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Robin Haberkorn
+ *
+ * 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 of the License, 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 this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+#ifndef __HELP_H
+#define __HELP_H
+
+#include <string.h>
+
+#include <glib.h>
+#include <glib/gprintf.h>
+
+#include "sciteco.h"
+#include "parser.h"
+#include "undo.h"
+#include "rbtree.h"
+
+namespace SciTECO {
+
+class HelpIndex : public RBTree {
+public:
+ class Topic : public RBTree::RBEntry {
+ public:
+ gchar *name;
+ gchar *filename;
+ tecoInt pos;
+
+ Topic(const gchar *_name, const gchar *_filename = NULL, tecoInt _pos = 0)
+ : name(g_strdup(_name)),
+ filename(_filename ? g_strdup(_filename) : NULL),
+ pos(_pos) {}
+ ~Topic()
+ {
+ g_free(name);
+ g_free(filename);
+ }
+
+ int
+ operator <(RBEntry &l2)
+ {
+ return g_ascii_strcasecmp(name, ((Topic &)l2).name);
+ }
+ };
+
+ void load(void);
+
+ Topic *find(const gchar *name);
+
+ void set(const gchar *name, const gchar *filename,
+ tecoInt pos = 0);
+};
+
+extern HelpIndex help_index;
+
+/*
+ * Command states
+ */
+
+class StateGetHelp : public StateExpectString {
+public:
+ StateGetHelp() : StateExpectString(false) {}
+
+private:
+ void initial(void);
+ State *done(const gchar *str);
+};
+
+namespace States {
+ extern StateGetHelp gethelp;
+}
+
+} /* namespace SciTECO */
+
+#endif