Everyone needs help, so lemmy-help you
lemmy-help is a emmylua parser as well as a CLI which takes that parsed tree and converts it into vim help docs.
- Using
cargo
cargo install lemmy-help --features=cli- Arch Linux
# Using yay
yay -S lemmy-help
# Using paru
paru -S lemmy-help- Using releases
Check out the release page for prebuild binaries available for different operating systems.
To properly generate docs you should follow emmylua spec. The parser is capable of parsing most (not all) of the emmylua syntax. You can read the following doc which can give you the idea on how to properly write emmylua comments.
Using the CLI is simple just give it the path to the lua files; it will parse them and prints help doc onto stdout
lemmy-help /path/to/{first,second,third}.lua > doc/PLUGIN_NAME.txtlemmy-help
USAGE:
lemmy-help [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] <FILES>...
ARGS:
<FILES>... Path to lua files
FLAGS:
-h, --help Print help information
-v, --version Print version information
-M, --no-modeline Don't print modeline at the end
-f, --prefix-func Prefix function name with ---@mod name
-a, --prefix-alias Prefix ---@alias tag with return/---@mod name
-c, --prefix-class Prefix ---@class tag with return/---@mod name
-t, --prefix-type Prefix ---@type tag with ---@mod name
--expand-opt Expand '?' (optional) to 'nil' type
OPTIONS:
-i, --indent <u8> Controls the indent width [default: 4]
-l, --layout <layout> Vimdoc text layout [default: 'default']
- "default" : Default layout
- "compact[:n=0]" : Aligns [desc] with <type>
and uses {n}, if provided, to indent the
following new lines. This option only
affects ---@field and ---@param tags
- "mini[:n=0]" : Aligns [desc] from the start
and uses {n}, if provided, to indent the
following new lines. This option affects
---@field, ---@param and ---@return tags
USAGE:
lemmy-help /path/to/first.lua /path/to/second.lua > doc/PLUGIN_NAME.txt
lemmy-help -c -a /path/to/{first,second,third}.lua > doc/PLUGIN_NAME.txt
lemmy-help --layout compact:2 /path/to/plugin.lua > doc/PLUGIN_NAME.txt
NOTES:
- The order of parsing + rendering is relative to the given files
name: lemmy-helpon: [push]env:
PLUGIN_NAME: plugin-namejobs:
docs:
runs-on: ubuntu-latestname: emmylua to vimdocsteps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- name: Generating helprun: | curl -Lq https://github.com/numToStr/lemmy-help/releases/latest/download/lemmy-help-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz | tar xz ./lemmy-help [args] <path> > doc/${{env.PLUGIN_NAME}}.txt - name: Commituses: stefanzweifel/git-auto-commit-action@v4with:
branch: ${{ github.head_ref }}commit_message: "chore(docs): auto-generate vimdoc"file_pattern: doc/*.txt