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docs: introduce "curldown" for libcurl man page format

curldown is this new file format for libcurl man pages. It is markdown
inspired with differences:

- Each file has a set of leading headers with meta-data
- Supports a small subset of markdown
- Uses .md file extensions for editors/IDE/GitHub to treat them nicely
- Generates man pages very similar to the previous ones
- Generates man pages that still convert nicely to HTML on the website
- Detects and highlights mentions of curl symbols automatically (when
  their man page section is specified)

tools:

- cd2nroff: converts from curldown to nroff man page
- nroff2cd: convert an (old) nroff man page to curldown
- cdall: convert many nroff pages to curldown versions
- cd2cd: verifies and updates a curldown to latest curldown

This setup generates .3 versions of all the curldown versions at build time.

CI:

Since the documentation is now technically markdown in the eyes of many
things, the CI runs many more tests and checks on this documentation,
including proselint, link checkers and tests that make sure we capitalize the
first letter after a period...

Closes #12730

2024-01-23 00:29:02 +01:00

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See-also

curl

curl_easy_option_next

libcurl

curl_easy_option_by_id (3)

curl_easy_option_by_name (3)

curl_easy_setopt (3)

NAME

curl_easy_option_next - iterate over easy setopt options

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

const struct curl_easyoption *
curl_easy_option_next(const struct curl_easyoption *prev);

DESCRIPTION

This function returns a pointer to the first or the next curl_easyoption struct, providing an ability to iterate over all known options for curl_easy_setopt(3) in this instance of libcurl.

Pass a NULL argument as prev to get the first option returned, or pass in the current option to get the next one returned. If there is no more option to return, curl_easy_option_next(3) returns NULL.

The options returned by this functions are the ones known to this libcurl and information about what argument type they want.

If the CURLOT_FLAG_ALIAS bit is set in the flags field, it means the name is provided for backwards compatibility as an alias.

struct

typedef enum {
  CURLOT_LONG,    /* long (a range of values) */
  CURLOT_VALUES,  /*      (a defined set or bitmask) */
  CURLOT_OFF_T,   /* curl_off_t (a range of values) */
  CURLOT_OBJECT,  /* pointer (void *) */
  CURLOT_STRING,  /*         (char * to null-terminated buffer) */
  CURLOT_SLIST,   /*         (struct curl_slist *) */
  CURLOT_CBPTR,   /*         (void * passed as-is to a callback) */
  CURLOT_BLOB,    /* blob (struct curl_blob *) */
  CURLOT_FUNCTION /* function pointer */
} curl_easytype;

/* The CURLOPTTYPE_* id ranges can still be used to figure out what type/size
   to use for curl_easy_setopt() for the given id */
struct curl_easyoption {
  const char *name;
  CURLoption id;
  curl_easytype type;
  unsigned int flags;
};

EXAMPLE

int main(void)
{
  /* iterate over all available options */
  const struct curl_easyoption *opt;
  opt = curl_easy_option_next(NULL);
  while(opt) {
    printf("Name: %s\n", opt->name);
    opt = curl_easy_option_next(opt);
  }
}

AVAILABILITY

This function was added in libcurl 7.73.0

RETURN VALUE

A pointer to the curl_easyoption struct for the next option or NULL if no more options.

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