manpage downloads 404

[CouldBeThis]

On the linux and mac install pages, all the links to manpages and shell completion are 404.

I see the manpages are located here as .md only: https://github.com/ogham/exa/tree/master/man

It would be really nice to have a copy/paste install line for these if that's possible for the lazy. :) I also noticed that I already have a manpage at exa(4) so if there is some special way to call the page for this exa given a conflict that would be something to mention. If it'll default to (1) then that's good for me.

I was looking around for the manpage but all I could find is the same as is obtained by exa --help.

Whenever the manpages are found, I'd like to submit them to https://github.com/jacksonp/ManKier-extra because mankier is the nicest formatted manpage website. :)

[ariasuni]

On the linux and mac install pages, all the links to manpages and shell completion are 404.

We already have an issue for this, see #757. They are in the downloads, e.g. https://github.com/ogham/exa/releases/download/v0.10.1/exa-accoutrements-v0.10.1.zip.

I see the manpages are located here as .md only: https://github.com/ogham/exa/tree/master/man

They are generated by pandoc from these files, see here:

exa/Justfile

Lines 99 to 102 in 42659f9

	@man:
	mkdir -p "${CARGO_TARGET_DIR:-target}/man"
	pandoc --standalone -f markdown -t man man/exa.1.md > "${CARGO_TARGET_DIR:-target}/man/exa.1"
	pandoc --standalone -f markdown -t man man/exa_colors.5.md > "${CARGO_TARGET_DIR:-target}/man/exa_colors.5"

I also noticed that I already have a manpage at exa(4) so if there is some special way to call the page for this exa given a conflict that would be something to mention. If it'll default to (1) then that's good for me.

Didn’t know about exa acceleration architecture, but I’m not sure if it’s used or even in development anymore. If you want to access exa(1), just use man 1 exa.

Whenever the manpages are found, I'd like to submit them to https://github.com/jacksonp/ManKier-extra because mankier is the nicest formatted manpage website. :)

I guess that could be nice, but I’m not sure what the policy is regarding package version. We have people use different versions of exa, especially because of Ubuntu and Debian providing an older version of exa. At least we already have it, for the version available in Arch Linux, anyway: https://man.archlinux.org/man/community/exa/exa.1.en

[CouldBeThis]

thanks @ariasuni I didn't find that issue when I searched. and thanks for the other useful info.

Is fixing it just a matter of nobody having the time? because I can make a PR based on the above. I can't locate a repo, branch or anything for the website though so perhaps it is not possible.

[ariasuni]

There’s no repository, the original author @ogham is managing the website but he has been unresponsive for a few months, and didn’t answer to my last e-mail. I guess at some point I’ll fork the repo and create a new website, but with my day job, I don’t have that much time to dedicate to exa, I already struggle a lot with reviewing and merge PRs.

[ariasuni]

Closed in favor of #757

exa is unmaintained, use the active fork eza instead (see #1243).