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-rw-r--r--runtime/autoload/man.vim69
1 files changed, 54 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/autoload/man.vim b/runtime/autoload/man.vim
index 122ae357bc..215df9484a 100644
--- a/runtime/autoload/man.vim
+++ b/runtime/autoload/man.vim
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ function! man#open_page(count, count1, mods, ...) abort
" 1, also a valid section. If they are equal, count explicitly set.
let sect = string(a:count)
endif
- let [sect, name, path] = s:verify_exists(sect, name)
+ let path = s:verify_exists(sect, name)
+ let [sect, name] = s:extract_sect_and_name_path(path)
catch
call s:error(v:exception)
return
@@ -83,7 +84,8 @@ endfunction
function! man#read_page(ref) abort
try
let [sect, name] = man#extract_sect_and_name_ref(a:ref)
- let [sect, name, path] = s:verify_exists(sect, name)
+ let path = s:verify_exists(sect, name)
+ let [sect, name] = s:extract_sect_and_name_path(path)
let page = s:get_page(path)
catch
call s:error(v:exception)
@@ -204,7 +206,7 @@ function! man#extract_sect_and_name_ref(ref) abort
if empty(name)
throw 'manpage reference cannot contain only parentheses'
endif
- return [get(b:, 'man_default_sects', ''), name]
+ return ['', name]
endif
let left = split(ref, '(')
" see ':Man 3X curses' on why tolower.
@@ -227,24 +229,62 @@ function! s:get_path(sect, name) abort
return substitute(get(split(s:system(['man', s:find_arg, s:section_arg, a:sect, a:name])), 0, ''), '\n\+$', '', '')
endfunction
+" s:verify_exists attempts to find the path to a manpage
+" based on the passed section and name.
+"
+" 1. If the passed section is empty, b:man_default_sects is used.
+" 2. If manpage could not be found with the given sect and name,
+" then another attempt is made with b:man_default_sects.
+" 3. If it still could not be found, then we try again without a section.
+" 4. If still not found but $MANSECT is set, then we try again with $MANSECT
+" unset.
+"
+" This function is careful to avoid duplicating a search if a previous
+" step has already done it. i.e if we use b:man_default_sects in step 1,
+" then we don't do it again in step 2.
function! s:verify_exists(sect, name) abort
+ let sect = a:sect
+ if empty(sect)
+ let sect = get(b:, 'man_default_sects', '')
+ endif
+
try
- let path = s:get_path(a:sect, a:name)
+ return s:get_path(sect, a:name)
catch /^command error (/
+ endtry
+
+ if !empty(get(b:, 'man_default_sects', '')) && sect !=# b:man_default_sects
try
- let path = s:get_path(get(b:, 'man_default_sects', ''), a:name)
+ return s:get_path(b:man_default_sects, a:name)
catch /^command error (/
- let path = s:get_path('', a:name)
endtry
- endtry
- " Extract the section from the path, because sometimes the actual section is
- " more specific than what we provided to `man` (try `:Man 3 App::CLI`).
- " Also on linux, name seems to be case-insensitive. So for `:Man PRIntf`, we
- " still want the name of the buffer to be 'printf'.
- return s:extract_sect_and_name_path(path) + [path]
+ endif
+
+ if !empty(sect)
+ try
+ return s:get_path('', a:name)
+ catch /^command error (/
+ endtry
+ endif
+
+ if !empty($MANSECT)
+ try
+ let MANSECT = $MANSECT
+ unset $MANSECT
+ return s:get_path('', a:name)
+ catch /^command error (/
+ finally
+ let $MANSECT = MANSECT
+ endtry
+ endif
+
+ throw 'no manual entry for ' . a:name
endfunction
-" extracts the name and sect out of 'path/name.sect'
+" Extracts the name/section from the 'path/name.sect', because sometimes the actual section is
+" more specific than what we provided to `man` (try `:Man 3 App::CLI`).
+" Also on linux, name seems to be case-insensitive. So for `:Man PRIntf`, we
+" still want the name of the buffer to be 'printf'.
function! s:extract_sect_and_name_path(path) abort
let tail = fnamemodify(a:path, ':t')
if a:path =~# '\.\%([glx]z\|bz2\|lzma\|Z\)$' " valid extensions
@@ -339,8 +379,7 @@ function! s:get_paths(sect, name, do_fallback) abort
endif
" fallback to a single path, with the page we're trying to find
- let [l:sect, l:name, l:path] = s:verify_exists(a:sect, a:name)
- return [l:path]
+ return [s:verify_exists(a:sect, a:name)]
endtry
endfunction