Description of NeoMutt’s documentation process
Please document your changes. Note that there are several places where you may have to add documentation:
Configuration variables are documented directly in init.h. Note that this includes documentation for possibly added format flags!
The parts of The Manual and the muttrc manual page dealing with these variables, and the global Muttrc, are generated automatically from that documentation. To start this process, type “make update-doc” in the top-level source directory.
Note that you may have to update the makedoc utility (makedoc.c) when adding new data types to init.h.
More precisely, variable name, type, and default value are directly extracted from the initializer for the MuttVars array. Documentation is expected in special comments which follow the initializer. For a line to be included with the documentation, it must (after, possibly, some white space) begin with either “/**” or “**”. Any following white space is ignored. The rest of the line is expected to be plain text, with some formatting instructions roughly similar to [ntg]roff:
\fI switches to italics\fB switches to boldface\fT switches to monospace\fP switches to normal display after \fI, \fB or \fT
\(as can be used to represent an asterisk (*). This is intended to help
avoiding character sequences such as /* or */ inside comments.\(rs can be used to represent a backslash (\). This is intended to help
avoiding problems when trying to represent any of the \ sequences used by
makedoc..dl on a line starts a “definition list” environment (name taken from HTML)
where terms and definitions alternate..dt marks a term in a definition list..dd marks a definition in a definition list..de on a line finishes a definition list environment..ts on a line starts a “verbose tscreen” environment (name taken from
SGML). Please try to keep lines inside such an environment short; a length
of about 40 characters should be OK. This is necessary to avoid a really
bad-looking muttrc (5) manual page..te on a line finishes this environment..pp on a line starts a paragraph.$word will be converted to a reference to word, where appropriate. Note
that $$word is possible as well. Use $$$ to get a literal $ without
making a reference.. ’ in the beginning of a line expands to two space characters. This is
used to protect indentations in tables.Do not use any other SGML or nroff formatting instructions here!
For the complete list, you can always look up the .travis.yml files. Note that these are the ubuntu packages.
