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;;; helm-man.el --- Man and woman UI -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
;; Copyright (C) 2012 ~ 2025 Thierry Volpiatto
;; 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/>.
;;; Code:
(require 'cl-lib)
(require 'helm)
(require 'helm-help)
(defvar woman-topic-all-completions)
(defvar woman-manpath)
(defvar woman-path)
(defvar woman-expanded-directory-path)
(declare-function woman-file-name "woman.el" (topic &optional re-cache))
(declare-function woman-file-name-all-completions "woman.el" (topic))
(declare-function Man-getpage-in-background "man.el" (topic))
(declare-function woman-expand-directory-path "woman.el" (path-dirs path-regexps))
(declare-function woman-topic-all-completions "woman.el" (path))
(declare-function helm-generic-sort-fn "helm-utils.el" (S1 S2))
(declare-function helm-comp-read "helm-mode")
(defgroup helm-man nil
"Man and Woman applications for Helm."
:group 'helm)
(defcustom helm-man-or-woman-function 'Man-getpage-in-background
"Default command to display a man page."
:group 'helm-man
:type '(radio :tag "Preferred command to display a man page"
(const :tag "Man" Man-getpage-in-background)
(const :tag "Woman" woman)))
(defcustom helm-man-format-switches (cl-case system-type
((darwin macos) "%s")
(t "-l %s"))
"Arguments to pass to the `manual-entry' function.
Arguments are passed to `manual-entry' with `format.'"
:group 'helm-man
:type 'string)
;; Internal
(defvar helm-man--pages nil
"All man pages on system.
Will be calculated the first time you invoke Helm with this
source.")
(defvar helm-source-man-pages nil)
(defun helm-man-default-action (candidate)
"Default action for jumping to a woman or man page from Helm."
(let ((wfiles (mapcar #'car (woman-file-name-all-completions candidate))))
(condition-case nil
(let ((file (if (cdr wfiles)
(helm-comp-read "ManFile: " wfiles :must-match t)
(car wfiles))))
(if (eq helm-man-or-woman-function 'Man-getpage-in-background)
(manual-entry (format helm-man-format-switches file))
(condition-case nil
(woman-find-file file)
;; If woman is unable to format correctly
;; try Man instead.
(error (kill-buffer)
(manual-entry (format helm-man-format-switches file))))))
;; If even Man failed with file as argument, try again with Man
;; but using Topic candidate instead of the file calculated by
;; woman.
(error (kill-buffer)
(Man-getpage-in-background candidate)))))
(defun helm-man--init ()
(require 'woman)
(require 'helm-utils)
(unless helm-man--pages
(setq woman-expanded-directory-path
(woman-expand-directory-path woman-manpath woman-path))
(setq woman-topic-all-completions
(woman-topic-all-completions woman-expanded-directory-path))
(setq helm-man--pages (mapcar 'car woman-topic-all-completions)))
(helm-init-candidates-in-buffer 'global helm-man--pages))
(defun helm-man-popup-info (candidate)
(let ((output (shell-command-to-string (format "man -f '%s'" candidate))))
(when (string-match (format "\\(%s ?([^(]+)\\) *- ?\\(.*\\)\n" candidate)
output)
(match-string 2 output))))
(defclass helm-man-pages-class (helm-source-in-buffer)
((popup-info :initform #'helm-man-popup-info)))
;;;###autoload
(defun helm-man-woman (arg)
"Preconfigured `helm' for Man and Woman pages.
With a prefix ARG reinitialize the cache. To have a popup
showing a basic description of selected candidate, turn on
`helm-popup-tip-mode'."
(interactive "P")
(when arg (setq helm-man--pages nil))
(unless helm-source-man-pages
(setq helm-source-man-pages
(helm-make-source "Manual Pages" 'helm-man-pages-class
:init #'helm-man--init
:persistent-action #'ignore
:filtered-candidate-transformer
(lambda (candidates _source)
(sort candidates #'helm-generic-sort-fn))
:action '(("Display Man page" . helm-man-default-action))
:group 'helm-man)))
(helm :sources 'helm-source-man-pages
:buffer "*helm man woman*"))
(provide 'helm-man)
;;; helm-man.el ends here
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