Files
fish-config/docs/site
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.
2026-08-31 22:02:37 -04:00
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fish-config docs site

Starlight site for the 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:

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 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

  • UnoCSS (uno.config.ts) render icons from any Iconify 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

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.