[privoxy-devel] Config generation (was Re: Not blocking ads ( issue with +block pattern))

[Hal B. <ha...@bu...>]

On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 05:19:58PM +0200, Andreas Oesterhelt wrote:
> 
> > BTW, Andreas did we sync config comments with u-m? I don't think I've
> > touched any of that, but not sure if anyone else has.
> 
> No. I had hoped someone would do it, which reminds me of this (old) story:
> http://www.nanuq.com/ashleigh/stuff/everybody_somebody_anybody_nobody.html

Somebody has done it :) 

I went ahead and tried to get this as automatic as I could. This
required breaking up u-m into config.sgml and p-config.sgml, and some
tinkering with the content and mark up a little. But I *think* it does
a mostly decent job. There's a make config-file target in Makefile
now, that does about a 98% job of it by using w3m and fmt. Still some
hand editing required, but not too bad. Per previous discussion on
this, lynx does a lousy job. So I wound up using 'fmt' to shorten w3m
line lengths so I don't know how portable that is. w3m just is better
at this despite lynx having many more available options. 

Anyway, maybe after 3.0 someone better at perl can further tweak the
target. Things needing work to make it fully automated (assuming w3m
and fmt are used for final text processing):

-I manually adjusted the section numbering. This just needs the first
digit dropped.
-Some of the examples got mangled, especially Debug levels, forwarding,
and Socks stuff. I think w3m handles this well by not breaking lines
(lynx breaks them anyway), but fmt scrambles them.
-I can't see a way of doing the underlining with '======' for headers,
so that was manually done.

-- 
Hal Burgiss