notmuch/emacs/rstdoc.el
David Bremner 1ac110c12e emacs: initial version of rstdoc.el
This small library is intended to support batch extraction of Emacs
Lisp docstrings from source files. Clients will need to include (or
replace) rstdoc.rsti.
2018-12-08 08:45:48 -04:00

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;;; rstdoc.el --- help generate documentation from docstrings -*-lexical-binding: t-*-
;; Copyright (C) 2018 David Bremner
;; Author: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
;; Created: 26 May 2018
;; Keywords: emacs lisp, documentation
;; Homepage: https://notmuchmail.org
;; This file is not part of GNU Emacs.
;; rstdoc.el 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.
;;
;; rstdoc.el 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 rstdoc.el. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
;;
;;; Commentary:
;;
;; Rstdoc provides a facility to extract all of the docstrings defined in
;; an elisp source file. Usage:
;;
;; emacs -Q --batch -L . -l rstdoc -f rstdoc-batch-extract foo.el foo.rsti
;;; Code:
(provide 'rstdoc)
(defun rstdoc-batch-extract ()
"Extract docstrings to and from the files on the command line"
(apply #'rstdoc-extract command-line-args-left))
(defun rstdoc-extract (in-file out-file)
"Write docstrings from IN-FILE to OUT-FILE"
(load-file in-file)
(let* ((definitions (cdr (assoc (expand-file-name in-file) load-history)))
(doc-hash (make-hash-table :test 'eq)))
(mapc
(lambda (elt)
(let ((pair
(pcase elt
(`(defun . ,name) (cons name (documentation name)))
(`(,_ . ,_) nil)
(sym (cons sym (get sym 'variable-documentation))))))
(when (and pair (cdr pair))
(puthash (car pair) (cdr pair) doc-hash))))
definitions)
(with-temp-buffer
(maphash
(lambda (key val)
(rstdoc--insert-docstring key val))
doc-hash)
(write-region (point-min) (point-max) out-file))))
(defun rstdoc--insert-docstring (symbol docstring)
(insert (format "\n.. |docstring::%s| replace::\n" symbol))
(insert (replace-regexp-in-string "^" " " (rstdoc--rst-quote-string docstring)))
(insert "\n"))
(defvar rst--escape-alist
'( ("\\\\='" . "\\\\'")
("\\([^\\]\\)'" . "\\1`")
("^[[:space:]\t]*$" . "|br|")
("^[[:space:]\t]" . "|indent| "))
"list of (regex . replacement) pairs")
(defun rstdoc--rst-quote-string (str)
(with-temp-buffer
(insert str)
(dolist (pair rst--escape-alist)
(goto-char (point-min))
(while (re-search-forward (car pair) nil t)
(replace-match (cdr pair))))
(buffer-substring (point-min) (point-max))))
;;; rstdoc.el ends here