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[PATCH 0/2] man-db: Better parsing of man macros.

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Message #11 received at 77387 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Sergey Trofimov <sarg <at> sarg.org.ru>
To: 77387 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Sergey Trofimov <sarg <at> sarg.org.ru>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] man-db: Support mdoc-formatted man pages.
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2025 16:32:55 +0200

* guix/man-db.scm (man-page->entry): Extract man name and section from
.Dt macro.

Change-Id: I02dc99d73dceecdb077315805025efad9a650e91
---
 guix/man-db.scm | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/guix/man-db.scm b/guix/man-db.scm
index 44c01ac298..44668a3ebf 100644
--- a/guix/man-db.scm
+++ b/guix/man-db.scm
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ (define* (man-page->entry file #:optional (resolve identity))
                   (mandb-entry file name (or section 0) (or synopsis "")
                                kind)
                   (match (if (string-prefix? "." line) (man-macro-tokenize line) #f)
-                    ((".TH" name (= string->number section) _ ...)
+                    (((or ".TH" ".Dt") name (= string->number section) _ ...)
                      (loop name section synopsis kind))
                     ((".SH" (or "NAME" "\"NAME\""))
                      (loop name section (read-synopsis port) kind))
-- 
2.49.0

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