skipping heading levels (eg from # to ###, or starting at ###) is legal in pandoc, but not in nixos-render-docs. pandoc acts as though section levels *were* consecutive, nixos-render-docs prefers to tell people not to do that kind of thing because it can make documents more fragile.
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installShellFiles
This hook helps with installing manpages and shell completion files. It exposes 2 shell functions installManPage
and installShellCompletion
that can be used from your postInstall
hook.
The installManPage
function takes one or more paths to manpages to install. The manpages must have a section suffix, and may optionally be compressed (with .gz
suffix). This function will place them into the correct directory.
The installShellCompletion
function takes one or more paths to shell completion files. By default it will autodetect the shell type from the completion file extension, but you may also specify it by passing one of --bash
, --fish
, or --zsh
. These flags apply to all paths listed after them (up until another shell flag is given). Each path may also have a custom installation name provided by providing a flag --name NAME
before the path. If this flag is not provided, zsh completions will be renamed automatically such that foobar.zsh
becomes _foobar
. A root name may be provided for all paths using the flag --cmd NAME
; this synthesizes the appropriate name depending on the shell (e.g. --cmd foo
will synthesize the name foo.bash
for bash and _foo
for zsh). The path may also be a fifo or named fd (such as produced by <(cmd)
), in which case the shell and name must be provided.
nativeBuildInputs = [ installShellFiles ];
postInstall = ''
installManPage doc/foobar.1 doc/barfoo.3
# explicit behavior
installShellCompletion --bash --name foobar.bash share/completions.bash
installShellCompletion --fish --name foobar.fish share/completions.fish
installShellCompletion --zsh --name _foobar share/completions.zsh
# implicit behavior
installShellCompletion share/completions/foobar.{bash,fish,zsh}
# using named fd
installShellCompletion --cmd foobar \
--bash <($out/bin/foobar --bash-completion) \
--fish <($out/bin/foobar --fish-completion) \
--zsh <($out/bin/foobar --zsh-completion)
'';