[texdoc] Some small bugs and more

[Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda]

Dear Takuto,

That's great!

Regarding the argument parsing, I have something along those lines that 
was originally meant for l3build and later it went for a script of mine:

https://github.com/cereda/checkcites/blob/master/checkcites.lua#L42

Maybe it could help (or not). :)

Kind regards!

Paulo

Em 08-11-2017 11:36, 朝倉卓人 escreveu:
> 
> Hello Karl, Norbert, and everyone
> 
> I read a part of texdoc source code (for understanding the scoring scheme)
> and found some small problems in it.
> 
> First, texdoc doesn't check if they actually have an argument (which should
> be a path to the file) so if we execute a command `texdoc --just-view` and
> that will result to rise an internal error like:
> 
> 	[string "..."]:53: attempt to concatenate a nil value
> 
> I think it is better to print usage text instead of this.
> 
> Secondly, some comments in score.tlu are not telling truths. For example,
> on line 155, it says that
> 
>> if basename is bad, score gets < 0
> 
> but actually, texdoc gives 0.1 (> 0) for that case.
> 
> Thirdly, this is very simillar problem to the second one, some debug messages
> seem that they also not telling the truths.
> 
> I think I can fix these problems, so may I join the project on puszcza?
> 
> And I also read TODO of the project and be interested in the following part:
> 
>> Searching by macro name???
>>      - http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2010-May/025832.html
>>      - other ideas?
> 
> I thought that if texdoc has a function like "fuzzy search", it will be also
> useful especially for people who are looking for new packages.
> 
> Best regards,
> Takuto
> 
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> Takuto Asakura
> Dept. of Bioinformatics and Syetems Biology,
> Faculty of Science, The Univ. of Tokyo.
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