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Author SHA1 Message Date
Daniel Stenberg
e7219c2bdc
cmdline-opts: language cleanups
Use imperative mood consistently for the first sentence describing an
option.

"Set this" instead "tell curl to set" or "this sets..."

Plus some extra cleanups and rephrasing.

Closes #13106
2024-03-12 15:42:33 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
1ccf1cd993
scripts/managen: the new name and home for the manpage generator
It was previously docs/cmdline-opts/gen.pl

Closes #13089
2024-03-08 17:05:08 +01:00
RainRat
2cd78f525c misc: Fix typos in docs and lib
This fixes miscellaneous typos and duplicated words in the docs, lib
and test comments and a few user facing errorstrings.

Author: RainRat on Github
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
Reviewed-by: Dan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>
Closes: #13019
2024-03-01 09:59:48 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
6e494a2390
docs: more language cleanups
- present tense
- avoid bad words

Closes #13003
2024-02-27 16:19:43 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
911fc964a1
cmdline-docs: quote and angle bracket cleanup
- make sure angle brackets are escaped
- remove a lot of superfluous double quotes
- replace several double quotes with backticks

To make nicer-looking markdown.

Closes #12884
2024-02-07 08:35:28 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
2494b8dd51
docs/cmdline: change to .md for cmdline docs
- switch all invidual files documenting command line options into .md,
   as the documentation is now markdown-looking.

 - made the parser treat 4-space indents as quotes

 - switch to building the curl.1 manpage using the "mainpage.idx" file,
   which lists the files to include to generate it, instead of using the
   previous page-footer/headers. Also, those files are now also .md
   ones, using the same format. I gave them underscore prefixes to make
   them sort separately:
   _NAME.md, _SYNOPSIS.md, _DESCRIPTION.md, _URL.md, _GLOBBING.md,
   _VARIABLES.md, _OUTPUT.md, _PROTOCOLS.md, _PROGRESS.md, _VERSION.md,
   _OPTIONS.md, _FILES.md, _ENVIRONMENT.md, _PROXYPREFIX.md,
   _EXITCODES.md, _BUGS.md, _AUTHORS.md, _WWW.md, _SEEALSO.md

 - updated test cases accordingly

Closes #12751
2024-01-23 14:30:15 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
a859e29a60
gen.pl: support ## for doing .IP in table-like lists
Warn on use of .RS/.IP/.RE

Closes #12667
2024-01-09 16:00:16 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
4600bd3993
cmdline-docs: use present tense, not future
+ some smaller cleanups

Closes #11821
2023-09-08 16:57:33 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
86ec17b856
docs/cmdline-opts: mark all global options
gen.pl now outputs a generic explanations for them for each option

Fixes #10566
Reported-by: u20221022 on github
Closes #10584
2023-02-22 08:35:45 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
daf4e6a3a1
curl.1: make help, version and manual sections "custom"
Instead of using "multi: boolean", as these are slightly special as in
they do are not enable/disable ones.

Fixes #10490
Reported-by: u20221022 on github
Closes #10497
2023-02-13 20:52:11 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
2bc1d775f5
copyright: update all copyright lines and remove year ranges
- they are mostly pointless in all major jurisdictions
- many big corporations and projects already don't use them
- saves us from pointless churn
- git keeps history for us
- the year range is kept in COPYING

checksrc is updated to allow non-year using copyright statements

Closes #10205
2023-01-03 09:19:21 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
ef305de95c
cmdline/docs: add a required 'multi' keyword for each option
The keyword specifies how option works when specified multiple times:

 - single: the last provided value replaces the earlier ones
 - append: it supports being provided multiple times
 - boolean: on/off values
 - mutex: flag-like option that disable anoter flag

The 'gen.pl' script then outputs the proper and unified language for
each option's multi-use behavior in the generated man page.

The multi: header is requires in each .d file and will cause build error
if missing or set to an unknown value.

Closes #9759
2022-10-18 18:50:25 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
df45fd1794
docs/cmdline-opts: add copyright and license identifier to each file
gen.pl now insists on C: and SPDX-License-Identifier: fields to be
present in all files.

Closes #9002
2022-06-14 08:48:09 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
d1828b470f
gen.pl: improve example output format
Treat consecutive lines that start with a space to be "examples". They
are output enclosed by .nf and .fi

Updated form.d to use this new fanciness

Closes #8016
2021-11-15 22:59:49 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
68784d73c3
curl.1: provide examples for each option
The file format for each option now features a "Example:" header that
can provide one or more examples that get rendered appropriately in the
output. All options MUST have at least one example or gen.pl complains
at build-time.

This fix also does a few other minor format and consistency cleanups.

Closes #7654
2021-09-01 14:02:43 +02:00
Daniel Stenberg
d7f737dd13
docs: make gen.pl support *italic* and **bold**
Remove some nroffisms from the cmdline doc files to simplify editing,
and instead support this markdown style.

Closes #6771
2021-03-22 16:50:58 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
6888a670aa MANPAGE: clarify the dash situation in meta data 2017-03-08 09:20:36 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
a387d881ec cmdline-docs: more options converted and fixed
Now all options are in the new system.
2016-11-28 09:53:15 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
81e61cda39 gen: support 'redirect'
... and warn for too long --help lines
2016-11-16 10:42:50 +01:00
Alex Chan
771f3f22dd docs: Spelling fixes 2016-11-15 15:41:45 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
b8c35f40f9 cmdline-opts: support generating the --help output 2016-11-15 09:08:50 +01:00
Daniel Stenberg
050aa80309 cmdline-opts: first test version of a new man page generator kit
See MANPAGE.md for the description of how this works. Each command line
option is now described in a separate .d file.
2016-11-13 23:40:12 +01:00