lacuna.nvim

lacuna.nvim is will be a neovim plugin that provides an interface to Dash docs. It's written in Yuescript, not "pure" Lua.

It doesn't do anything useful right now. :-)

Current Status

One of the problems with this plugin at the moment is that docs from dash/zeal are in HTML format, not plaintext (obviously). Getting nicely-formatted content from that is quite annoying (go figure).

There are a few options that I'm exploring:

1. glow: basically, pretend all content is actually markdown and let something else do the rendering work. Not great, as it requires an external tool and executes it each time.

2. write a small html-cleaner lib: likely never going to be 100% capable of handling every situation.

With option 2, it'd be possible to clean docs ahead-of-time and provide an alternate download host, too. At that point, though, is it even useful? Should we just use manpages forever?

Install

lacuna requires lsqlite3, xmlua, and luafilesystem, which also require packages to be installed on your system. i'll detail this later. i am lazy.

• lsqlite3: pacman -S sqlite3
• xmlua: pacman -S libxml2

also, idk man, i use packer.

packer.startup (use) ->
  use_rocks "lsqlite3"
  use_rocks "xmlua"
  use_rocks "luafilesystem"
  use_rocks "lua-cjson"

  use {
    "chrsm/lacuna.nvim"
    config: ->
      require("lacuna").setup!
  }

Contributing

• use yue
• write decent commit messages
• ???