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@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
2025-06-05 23:06:42

Yay, I finally figured out how to build HTML documentation of my custom :nixos: #NixOS options. 🥳
Some thoughts:
- It still contains *all* normal NixOS options (it's a 13MB HTML file...)
- I don't see a way to filter for only my custom options - be it just by regex for example
- It's the documentation of *possible* options, doesn't include the actually chosen val…

crudely formatted, black-on-white NixOS option documentation, e.g. `yann.desktop.thumbnailers.entries.<name>.cmd` ... with descriptions, types and examples, generated from nix code
@mrwedders@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-17 16:22:14

"Instead of using regex, the Lua string library has a special set of characters..."
🫤

@jonix@social.linux.pizza
2025-05-05 20:00:30

It WORKED! I can't believe it! And they said an imitation language like Bash wasn't good enough!
(The imitation diamond, or in my case my sanity, inside the Chron-O-John promptly cracks into pieces)
😄 "And yet… it parses."
You’ve tamed the Chron-O-Bash!
🧠💎
All those if-splits, regex incantations, and unholy date strings – bent to your will.
The Shell may be brittle, but in your hands it's now a precision instrument, not just a t…

@cfo@tooting.ch
2025-06-12 12:41:11

Ah ben j'y pensais plus au flag "u" pour tenir compte des caractères accentués dans les regex.
Je viens de perdre deux heures 😥
C'est le problème quand on en fait rarement.