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rootiest 577ad993ea feat(help): render inline code spans instead of printing backticks
config-help pipes the manual through bat, which dims the backticks and
leaves the span content the same colour as the prose around it -- so a
delimiter carried no information and every span cost the reader two
literal characters. 1236 of them across the document.

Each span is now rendered bold and the delimiters dropped, in every
branch of the viewer chain:

- ov + bat, and ov alone, style the spans (bat's output wraps each
  backtick in its own SGR sequence; raw Markdown is matched directly)
- bat alone flattens them on the way in instead, because bat escapes
  any SGR sequence handed to it as input
- less and cat style them, less gaining -R to render the result
- man -l needs nothing; pandoc consumed the backticks at build time

Both substitutions are line-preserving, so the tail-slice that opens
the pager on a requested section still lands on it.
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# fish-config docs site
[Starlight](https://starlight.astro.build) site for the
[fish-config](https://git.rootiest.dev/rootiest/fish-config) manual.
## Generated, not authored
Everything under `src/content/docs/` is generated — **do not edit it
directly**, changes will be overwritten. The sources are:
- `docs/manual/**` — prose for every section except the functions reference
- `functions/*.fish` comment headers — the functions reference (Section 5)
Regenerate from the repo root:
```fish title="regenerate the site content"
python3 docs/build-manual.py --site
```
`docs/verify-manual.py` validates both sources before you build; run it
first if you've touched a header or a manual page.
## Inline code spans
Function headers are read as plain text (by `config-help`, by `funcsave`,
by anyone opening the `.fish` file), so they're authored without backticks
— `-a/--all`, not `` `-a`/`--all` ``. `docs/codespans.py` puts the
backticks on at render time, as the last step of `prettify()`.
`build_concat()` runs the same pass, so the man page and `config-help`
mark code the way the site does rather than only where the SSOT happened
to backtick something by hand. `config-help` then renders those spans
bold and drops the delimiters, since a terminal pager would otherwise
show them as literal punctuation.
It recognises flags, `$vars`, `SCREAMING_SNAKE` env vars, snake_case
identifiers (`__fish_config_op_aliases`, `fish_greeting`), paths and
filenames, key chords (`Ctrl-R`), shadow chains (`ls->eza`), runs of tool
names (`btop, dust, duf, …`), whole command lines in a table column of
command lines, and command names it knows — the `_fdc_*` catalog in
`functions/_fish_deps_catalog.fish`, the `functions/` directory listing,
and a standard-command list in the module.
Names that also read as English (`find`, `top`, `screen`) are listed in
`AMBIGUOUS_COMMANDS` and are never wrapped on sight; they still count
where position already proves they're a command. Add to that list rather
than removing a rule if a wrap ever reads wrong.
Fenced blocks, indented blocks, existing code spans, headings, link
targets, URLs, component markup, and `<FileTree>` bodies are never
touched. Leaving a token alone is always the safe outcome, so every rule
bails out when it isn't sure.
Indented blocks matter only to the concat — `prettify()` has already
fenced them by the time the site is rendered — but there they are the
table of contents and every section 5 entry, which must stay verbatim.
## llms.txt
The [`starlight-llms-txt`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/starlight-llms-txt)
plugin emits `llms.txt`, `llms-full.txt`, and `llms-small.txt` alongside the
built pages — no configuration needed, it just walks the generated content.
## Icons
[`starlight-plugin-icons`](https://docs.rettend.me/starlight-plugin-icons)
+ [UnoCSS](https://unocss.dev) (`uno.config.ts`) render icons from any
[Iconify](https://icones.js.org) set as `i-<collection>:<name>` classes.
The Gitea link in the header uses it (see
`src/components/starlight/SocialIcons.astro`) to show the real Gitea logo
instead of Starlight's generic `code-branch` icon. Sidebar (`sidebar:
true`) and codeblock (`codeblock: true`) icon support are wired up in
`astro.config.mjs` but unused so far — see the plugin docs for the
`icon:` sidebar syntax if you want to add them.
## Development
```fish title="local dev server"
cd docs/site
npm install
npm run dev
```
## Deploy
Built and deployed to Cloudflare Pages by the Gitea Actions workflow on
every push to `main` — there's no manual deploy step.