Proposal for texsrc command

[Zdenek Wagner]

ne 16. 8. 2020 v 14:33 odesílatel निरंजन <niranjanvikastambe at gmail.com> napsal:
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> Hello friends,
>
> I am Niranjan. I wanted to propose a command named texsrc for seeing the source code of a package. Currently TeXLive provides the texdoc command which opens the documentation of any desired package, but there is no such command for opening the source (.sty) file which is strange.
>
> I am a Linux user and I have TL2020, therefore I have made a shell script in my /usr/bin/. It works for me (but only till I retain TL2020) and opens the source text of the desired package. The code is this -
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> #!/bin/sh
> xdg-open /usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/$@/$@.sty
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No script needed:

vim `kpsewhich something.sty`

or replace "vim" with whatever editor you like, or you can just use
"more" or "cat", if you are afraid of modifying the package by
mistake.

> This is a very minimal script. It needs to be refined as per the distribution year, os and path. I am no expert in shell to satisfy these requirements, but is it possible to build such a command?
>
> Regards,
> Niranjan


Zdeněk Wagner
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