Proposal for texsrc command

निरंजन niranjanvikastambe at gmail.com
Sun Aug 16 15:31:04 CEST 2020


Thanks, I did not know that. What about other distributions though?

On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 at 18:53, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> wrote:

> ne 16. 8. 2020 v 14:33 odesílatel निरंजन <niranjanvikastambe at gmail.com>
> napsal:
> >
> > 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 -
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > xdg-open /usr/local/texlive/2020/texmf-dist/tex/latex/$@/$@.sty
> >
> 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
> http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
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