archwiki.el

• Introduction
• Installation
• Customizing
• Contributing
• License
• Footnotes

Introduction

archwiki.el is a utility for navigating the Arch Wiki from Emacs. It is strongly advised for users of ArchLinux and ArchLinux derivates to install the arch-wiki-docs package¹.

This package is geared towards ArchLinux in particular, but any Linux distribution that has a local copy of the Arch Wiki can be compatible with this package.

Installation

As mentioned above, you will absolutely need a local copy of the Arch Wiki available to Emacs. You can install the arch-wiki-docs package if you are running ArchLinux or a derivate Linux distribution (ArcoLinux, ArchCraft, Manjaro,…), or refer to the readme of its repository.

A couple of options are available for installing archwiki.el. The first one is to clone the repository in your load-path and add the following to your .emacs or your init.el:

  (require 'archwiki)

In my case, I prefer using use-package with straight:

  (use-package eshell-info-banner
    :ensure t
    :defer t
    :straight (archwiki :type git
                        :host nil
                        :repo "https://labs.phundrak.com/phundrak/archwiki.el"))

I personally also added :build t in the straight recipe to ensure Emacs compiles my package, both to .elc and .eln files (I am on Emacs 28.0, feature/native-comp got merged into master!)

There is probably a similar way to install it with pure straight.el or quelpa, but I’m not knowledgable enough for that, feel free to create a PR to add some more installation instructions!

There is currently no plans of making this package available on MELPA or non-gnu elpa.

Customizing

A couple of variables can be edited by the user in order to configure archwiki.el:

archwiki-local-path

Where your local copy of the Arch Wiki is located. Default value: "/usr/share/doc/arch-wiki/html/en/"

archwiki-use-eww

If non nil, use the Emacs Web Wowser for viewing the Arch Wiki pages, otherwise use an external program. Default value: t

archwiki-external-browser

External program to use to view the Arch Wiki pages. If the value is nil or an empty string, or if the executable cannot be found by Emacs, use xdg-open, otherwise use this program. This can be a path to an executable or the name of an executable available on your $PATH. Default value: ""

Contributing

See /phundrak/archwiki.el/src/branch/main/CONTRIBUTING.org.

License

archwiki.el is available under the GNU GPL-3.0 license. You can find the full text in LICENSE.md.

Footnotes

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¹

https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/arch-wiki-docs/