* docgen: implement cross-document links
Fully implements https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/125
Follow-up of: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/18642 (for internal links)
and https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/20127.
Overview
--------
Explicit import-like directive is required, called `.. importdoc::`.
(the syntax is % RST, Markdown will use it for a while).
Then one can reference any symbols/headings/anchors, as if they
were in the local file (but they will be prefixed with a module name
or markup document in link text).
It's possible to reference anything from anywhere (any direction
in `.nim`/`.md`/`.rst` files).
See `doc/docgen.md` for full description.
Working is based on `.idx` files, hence one needs to generate
all `.idx` beforehand. A dedicated option `--index:only` is introduced
(and a separate stage for `--index:only` is added to `kochdocs.nim`).
Performance note
----------------
Full run for `./koch docs` now takes 185% of the time before this PR.
(After: 315 s, before: 170 s on my PC).
All the time seems to be spent on `--index:only` run, which takes
almost as much (85%) of normal doc run -- it seems that most time
is spent on file parsing, turning off HTML generation phase has not
helped much.
(One could avoid it by specifying list of files that can be referenced
and pre-processing only them. But it can become error-prone and I assume
that these linke will be **everywhere** in the repository anyway,
especially considering https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/478.
So every `.nim`/`.md` file is processed for `.idx` first).
But that's all without significant part of repository converted to
cross-module auto links. To estimate impact I checked the time for
`doc`ing a few files (after all indexes have been generated), and
everywhere difference was **negligible**.
E.g. for `lib/std/private/osfiles.nim` that `importdoc`s large
`os.idx` and hence should have been a case with relatively large
performance impact, but:
* After: 0.59 s.
* Before: 0.59 s.
So Nim compiler works so slow that doc part basically does not matter :-)
Testing
-------
1) added `extlinks` test to `nimdoc/`
2) checked that `theindex.html` is still correct
2) fixed broken auto-links for modules that were derived from `os.nim`
by adding appropriate ``importdoc``
Implementation note
-------------------
Parsing and formating of `.idx` entries is moved into a dedicated
`rstidx.nim` module from `rstgen.nim`.
`.idx` file format changed:
* fields are not escaped in most cases because we need original
strings for referencing, not HTML ones
(the exception is linkTitle for titles and headings).
Escaping happens later -- on the stage of `rstgen` buildIndex, etc.
* all lines have fixed number of columns 6
* added discriminator tag as a first column,
it always allows distinguish Nim/markup entries, titles/headings, etc.
`rstgen` does not rely any more (in most cases) on ad-hoc logic
to determine what type each entry is.
* there is now always a title entry added at the first line.
* add a line number as 6th column
* linkTitle (4th) column has a different format: before it was like
`module: funcName()`, now it's `proc funcName()`.
(This format is also propagated to `theindex.html` and search results,
I kept it that way since I like it more though it's discussible.)
This column is what used for Nim symbols resolution.
* also changed details on column format for headings and titles:
"keyword" is original, "linkTitle" is HTML one
* fix paths on Windows + more clear code
* Update compiler/docgen.nim
Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
* Handle .md and .nim paths uniformly in findRefFile
* handle titles better + more comments
* don't allow markup overwrite index title for .nim files
Co-authored-by: Andreas Rumpf <rumpf_a@web.de>
* make more standard libraries work with `nimPreviewSlimSystem`
* typo
* part two
* Delete specutils.nim
* fixes more tests
* more fixes
* fixes tests
* fixes three more tests
* add formatfloat import
* fix
* last
* Implement Pandoc Markdown concise link extension
This implements https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/20127.
Besides reference to headings we also support doing references
to Nim symbols inside Nim modules.
Markdown:
```
Some heading
------------
Ref. [Some heading].
```
Nim:
```
proc someFunction*() ...
... ## Ref. [someFunction]
```
This is substitution for RST syntax like `` `target`_ ``.
All 3 syntax variants of extension from Pandoc Markdown are supported:
`[target]`, `[target][]`, `[description][target]`.
This PR also fixes clashes in existing files, particularly
conflicts with RST footnote feature, which does not work with
this PR (but there is a plan to adopt a popular [Markdown footnote
extension](https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#footnotes) to make footnotes work).
Also the PR fixes a bug that Markdown links did not work when `[...]`
section had a line break.
The implementation is straightforward since link resolution did not
change w.r.t. RST implementation, it's almost only about new syntax
addition. The only essential difference is a possibility to add a custom
link description: form `[description][target]` which does not have an
RST equivalent.
* fix nim 1.0 gotcha
