This repository contains automation scripts to periodically generate an online web version of MacVim documentation. It uses vimhelp as a backend to generate HTML versions of MacVim's documentation and publishes them as a GitHub page. The repository is named "docs" so that it would show up as the same URL under the root domain under GitHub Pages.

The subfolder vimhelp is a forked version of vimhelp using Git subtree (we avoid using submodules to avoid having to make another repository just for the downstream changes). It contains changes to add support for a "MacVim" project and to change the output to match MacVim's needs. It also has some improvements to the offline mode (e.g. manual light/dark mode selection). There's also a custom filter to make gui_mac.txt render a little fancier, including showing the MacVim icon.

Command used to add the subtree:

git remote add -f vimhelp [email protected]:c4rlo/vimhelp.git
git subtree add --prefix=vimhelp vimhelp/master --squash

Command used for staying in sync and pulling from upstream:

git fetch vimhelp
git subtree merge -m "Merge subtree 'vimhelp' from 'vimhelp/master'" --prefix=vimhelp vimhelp/master --squash

To run the scripts locally, follow vimhelp's README to set up a venv first:

cd vimhelp
uv sync

Then run the script (make sure to substitute $macvim_dir with the directory that you have MacVim cloned to):

scripts/h2h.py -i $macvim_dir/runtime/doc -o ../build --project macvim --web-version --output-tags-json

You can then run a simple web server in the build folder and browse to it. E.g. Use Python as a web server (it will be available at http://localhost:8000):

cd build
python3 -m http.server