// Copyright 2017 The Go Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. // Package help implements the “go help” command. package help import ( "bufio" "fmt" "io" "os" "strings" "text/template" "unicode" "unicode/utf8" "cmd/go/internal/base" ) // Help implements the 'help' command. func Help(w io.Writer, args []string) { // 'go help documentation' generates doc.go. if len(args) == 1 && args[0] == "documentation" { fmt.Fprintln(w, "// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.") fmt.Fprintln(w, "// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style") fmt.Fprintln(w, "// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.") fmt.Fprintln(w) fmt.Fprintln(w, "// Code generated by 'go test cmd/go -v -run=^TestDocsUpToDate$ -fixdocs'; DO NOT EDIT.") fmt.Fprintln(w, "// Edit the documentation in other files and then execute 'go generate cmd/go' to generate this one.") fmt.Fprintln(w) buf := new(strings.Builder) PrintUsage(buf, base.Go) usage := &base.Command{Long: buf.String()} cmds := []*base.Command{usage} for _, cmd := range base.Go.Commands { cmds = append(cmds, cmd) cmds = append(cmds, cmd.Commands...) } tmpl(&commentWriter{W: w}, documentationTemplate, cmds) fmt.Fprintln(w, "package main") return } cmd := base.Go Args: for i, arg := range args { for _, sub := range cmd.Commands { if sub.Name() == arg { cmd = sub continue Args } } // helpSuccess is the help command using as many args as possible that would succeed. helpSuccess := "go help" if i > 0 { helpSuccess += " " + strings.Join(args[:i], " ") } fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "go help %s: unknown help topic. Run '%s'.\n", strings.Join(args, " "), helpSuccess) base.SetExitStatus(2) // failed at 'go help cmd' base.Exit() } if len(cmd.Commands) > 0 { PrintUsage(os.Stdout, cmd) } else { tmpl(os.Stdout, helpTemplate, cmd) } // not exit 2: succeeded at 'go help cmd'. return } var usageTemplate = `{{.Long | trim}} Usage: {{.UsageLine}} [arguments] The commands are: {{range .Commands}}{{if or (.Runnable) .Commands}} {{.Name | printf "%-11s"}} {{.Short}}{{end}}{{end}} Use "go help{{with .LongName}} {{.}}{{end}} " for more information about a command. {{if eq (.UsageLine) "go"}} Additional help topics: {{range .Commands}}{{if and (not .Runnable) (not .Commands)}} {{.Name | printf "%-15s"}} {{.Short}}{{end}}{{end}} Use "go help{{with .LongName}} {{.}}{{end}} " for more information about that topic. {{end}} ` var helpTemplate = `{{if .Runnable}}usage: {{.UsageLine}} {{end}}{{.Long | trim}} ` var documentationTemplate = `{{range .}}{{if .Short}}{{.Short | capitalize}} {{end}}{{if .Commands}}` + usageTemplate + `{{else}}{{if .Runnable}}Usage: {{.UsageLine}} {{end}}{{.Long | trim}} {{end}}{{end}}` // commentWriter writes a Go comment to the underlying io.Writer, // using line comment form (//). type commentWriter struct { W io.Writer wroteSlashes bool // Wrote "//" at the beginning of the current line. } func (c *commentWriter) Write(p []byte) (int, error) { var n int for i, b := range p { if !c.wroteSlashes { s := "//" if b != '\n' { s = "// " } if _, err := io.WriteString(c.W, s); err != nil { return n, err } c.wroteSlashes = true } n0, err := c.W.Write(p[i : i+1]) n += n0 if err != nil { return n, err } if b == '\n' { c.wroteSlashes = false } } return len(p), nil } // An errWriter wraps a writer, recording whether a write error occurred. type errWriter struct { w io.Writer err error } func (w *errWriter) Write(b []byte) (int, error) { n, err := w.w.Write(b) if err != nil { w.err = err } return n, err } // tmpl executes the given template text on data, writing the result to w. func tmpl(w io.Writer, text string, data any) { t := template.New("top") t.Funcs(template.FuncMap{"trim": strings.TrimSpace, "capitalize": capitalize}) template.Must(t.Parse(text)) ew := &errWriter{w: w} err := t.Execute(ew, data) if ew.err != nil { // I/O error writing. Ignore write on closed pipe. if strings.Contains(ew.err.Error(), "pipe") { base.SetExitStatus(1) base.Exit() } base.Fatalf("writing output: %v", ew.err) } if err != nil { panic(err) } } func capitalize(s string) string { if s == "" { return s } r, n := utf8.DecodeRuneInString(s) return string(unicode.ToTitle(r)) + s[n:] } func PrintUsage(w io.Writer, cmd *base.Command) { bw := bufio.NewWriter(w) tmpl(bw, usageTemplate, cmd) bw.Flush() }