doc: add Sphinx plugin for generating links to man pages

PR-URL: https://github.com/libuv/libuv/pull/236
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>

1 files changed, 46 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/src/sphinx-plugins/manpage.py b/docs/src/sphinx-plugins/manpage.py
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+# encoding: utf-8
+
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2013 Dariusz Dwornikowski.  All rights reserved.
+#
+# Adapted from https://github.com/tdi/sphinxcontrib-manpage
+# License: Apache 2
+#
+
+
+import re
+
+from docutils import nodes, utils
+from docutils.parsers.rst.roles import set_classes
+from string import Template
+
+
+def make_link_node(rawtext, app, name, manpage_num, options):
+    ref = app.config.man_url_regex
+    if not ref:
+        ref = "http://linux.die.net/man/%s/%s" % (manpage_num, name)
+    else:
+        s = Template(ref)
+        ref = s.substitute(num=manpage_num, topic=name)
+    set_classes(options)
+    node = nodes.reference(rawtext, "%s(%s)" % (name, manpage_num), refuri=ref, **options)
+    return node
+
+
+def man_role(name, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner, options={}, content=[]):
+    app = inliner.document.settings.env.app
+    p = re.compile("([a-zA-Z0-9_\.-_]+)\((\d)\)")
+    m = p.match(text)
+
+    manpage_num = m.group(2)
+    name = m.group(1)
+    node = make_link_node(rawtext, app, name, manpage_num, options)
+    return [node], []
+
+
+def setup(app):
+    app.info('Initializing manpage plugin')
+    app.add_role('man', man_role)
+    app.add_config_value('man_url_regex', None, 'env')
+    return
+