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Markdown command line interface definition

5 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2017-04-26 · latest 2023-01-18

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  1. I had a go at this a while ago, uses the markdown AST to build a program descriptor: https://github.com/mkdoc/mkcli I think docopt is a better choice as it has more traction but this experiment showed me a pure markdown implementation is…
    comment by tmpfs · 2023-01-18 · in Argdown: A simple syntax for complex argumentation
  2. I had a crack at this here: https://github.com/mkdoc/mkcli One of these days i would like to rewrite it in Go or Rust. I even got around to generating bash/zsh completion scripts from the generated program descriptor.
    comment by tmpfs · 2021-02-15 · in Argdown – a simple syntax for complex argumentation
  3. I wrote some tooling around this for creating man pages from markdown for CLI apps: https://github.com/mkdoc/mkcli And a generic man page output is here: https://github.com/mkdoc/mkout/blob/master/README.md#mkman It does make the…
    comment by tmpfs · 2020-05-29 · in History of Unix Manpages (2011)
  4. You may want to try my markdown based CLI definition tool: https://github.com/mkdoc/mkcli Generates help files, man pages, shell autocomplete for bash etc
    comment by tmpfs · 2019-03-20 · in Docli – A declarative language for command-line interfaces in Go