From: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
To: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org
Subject: [PATCH v3 02/10] docs: copy only the command from a console block
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:28:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260924172853.2665062-3-twoerner@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260924172853.2665062-1-twoerner@gmail.com>
The copy button matches the literal "$ " prompt, so on a block prompted
any other way it matches nothing and falls back to copying every line,
prompt, and output included. Match a pattern covering each prompt shape
the manuals use instead, so the button gives the command alone whatever
the prompt looks like.
AI-Generated: codex/claude-opus 5 (xhigh)
Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
---
changes in v3:
- the comment is shorter and no longer contradicts itself about scope
- a ">>> " alternative covers the one Python interpreter example
- a "(gdb) " alternative. The console lexer already marks that prompt,
so a selection skipped it while the button copied it; the two now
agree
changes in v2:
- dropped the stylesheet change, so a mouse selection keeps the output
- the comment now says this governs the copy button only, and only
reaches a block the console lexer has read
---
documentation/conf.py | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/documentation/conf.py b/documentation/conf.py
index 48d28a686807..d2252d5ab966 100644
--- a/documentation/conf.py
+++ b/documentation/conf.py
@@ -242,4 +242,21 @@ intersphinx_mapping = {
# -- sphinx_copybutton configuration -----------------------------------------
# sphinx-copybutton configuration
-copybutton_prompt_text = "$ "
+# Applies to the copy button only; a mouse selection is untouched.
+# Not scoped to console blocks, so every alternative has to be safe in a
+# BitBake or configuration example too.
+# No rule for a bare "#": it opens a comment, a root prompt, and a
+# line of program output alike.
+copybutton_prompt_text = "|".join((
+ r"^(?:\S+[@:]\S*)?\$\s+", # "$ ", and "user@host:~$ "
+ r"^\S+[@:]\S*#\s+", # "root@machine:~# ", a root prompt
+ r"^[A-Za-z]:\\[^>]*>\s*", # "C:\WINDOWS\system32>", cmd.exe
+ r"^DISKPART>\s*", # diskpart prints a prompt of its own
+ r"^pydevshell>\s+", # bitbake -c pydevshell
+ r"^>>> ", # a Python interpreter session
+ r"^\(gdb\)\s+", # a gdb session
+))
+copybutton_prompt_is_regexp = True
+copybutton_only_copy_prompt_lines = True
+copybutton_remove_prompts = True
+copybutton_line_continuation_character = "\\"
--
2.50.0.173.g8b6f19ccfc3a
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-24 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-24 17:28 [PATCH v3 00/10] docs: editorial repairs to the examples Trevor Woerner
2026-09-24 17:28 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] docs: give the root prompts a preamble Trevor Woerner
2026-09-24 17:28 ` Trevor Woerner [this message]
2026-09-24 17:28 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] docs: show a prompt on commands the reader is meant to type Trevor Woerner
2026-09-24 17:28 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] docs: write an elided passage as a comment Trevor Woerner
2026-09-24 17:28 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] docs: mark the placeholders in examples Trevor Woerner
2026-09-24 17:28 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] docs: remove real accounts from the examples Trevor Woerner
2026-09-24 17:28 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] kernel-dev: give each example block one thing to hold Trevor Woerner
2026-09-24 17:28 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] ref-manual: put the ARCHIVER_MODE comments on their own lines Trevor Woerner
2026-09-24 17:28 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] ref-manual: drop "partition" as a wic kickstart command Trevor Woerner
2026-09-24 17:28 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] dev-manual: indent a list continuation so the code block ends Trevor Woerner
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