Find -z conditional expression in bash manpage

[pylipp]

Thanks for the great tool, just started experimenting a little bit :)
How come mansnip does not find the part about -z string in the CONDITIONAL EXPRESSIONS section?
I tried mansnip bash '-z string'.

[kristopolous]

hrmm ... this is why I need some regression testing. I can fix it but I can't see what it may break. Let me do that.

[kristopolous]

alright I added a testing system and hopefully addressed this issue

[pylipp]

Thanks, that fixes the issue for me :)
I also wondered why mansnip bash CONDITIONAL does not return anything...

[kristopolous]

lol ok let me look into that. This is why this hasn't been done before. It's actually not easy.

[kristopolous]

so you're looking for a subheading jump? I never really planned for those but it's probably possible.

[kristopolous]

Alright, this now works with the caveat of sometimes showing a line or two of extra information ... that can also be avoided but the only solution I can currently think of is rather sophisticated.

[kristopolous]

ug, not even my hypothesized sophisticated method would work ... I'd have to parse the source man file

[kristopolous]

alright, I'll bump the pypi version with this fix and then contemplate my destiny.

[kristopolous]

I'm definitely in an avoidance/procrastination pattern now. What a toxic mess those are ... let me do something

[kristopolous]

So I could re-interpret the groff man files and then basically create my own post-processor to format it. I forget language theory from university but this is essentially a regular grammar with a simple stack machine. what a shitton of work though.