zig docs on command line.

usage:

zdoc [source] <identifier>

the program searches source code for matching public identifiers, printing found types and their doc comments to stdout. the search is case-insensitive and non-exhaustive.

for example, look up format function in std lib:

zdoc std.fmt format

print fmt's top level doc comments:

zdoc std.fmt

look up "hello" identifier in a project file:

zdoc ./src/main.zig hello

search across all .zig files starting from the src directory, recursively and following symlinks:

zdoc ./src hello

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that's about all it can do for now. a future version may include search syntax for public struct fields, enum tags and other constructs, like so:

zdoc std.foo.bar .somefield

for some types, zig may log an error reading something like, "renderingExpression for ... unimplemented". that's because i commented out a big chunk of rendering cases in src/output.zig which was adapted from std/zig/render.zig, to suppress definitions output.

if you see an error like this, please create an issue or send a code change.

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to contribute, create a pull request or send a patch with git send-mail to alex-dot-cloudware.io.

before sending a change, please make sure tests pass:

zig build test

and all code is formatted:

zig fmt --check .

license

same as zig license.