From: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com>
To: docs@lists.yoctoproject.org
Subject: [PATCH 00/10] docs: editorial repairs to the examples
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:03:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260922020339.481929-1-twoerner@gmail.com> (raw)
These are repairs to the examples themselves. No block is given a
language and no block changes how it is highlighted; what changes is the
text of the examples. Each commit stands on its own: a reader is better
served by every one of them whether or not anything else in this area
lands.
They also clear the way for a later series that states the language of
each code block. A block cannot say it is a console session without a
prompt, or C with a bare "..." in place of the code it omits, or anything
at all while it holds more than one file under a single "::". These
remove exactly those obstacles.
1. a preamble on the root prompts written as a bare "#", which the
rest already carry
2. the copy button and a mouse selection both reduced to the command,
for every prompt shape rather than just "$ "
3. a prompt on the command blocks the prose says to run, and on
transcripts only the opening line, plus dropping the bare trailing
"$" a returning prompt leaves behind
4. elided code written as a comment in the language around it
5. placeholders the reader must replace put in angle brackets
6. real accounts and home directories replaced with /home/user and a
bare "$"
7. kernel metadata examples split so each block holds one file, with
the filename moved to the block's caption
8. the ARCHIVER_MODE varflag examples given comments BitBake can parse,
since a "#" after a value is not an inline comment
9. "partition" dropped as a wic kickstart command; wic has rejected it
since the pykickstart parser was replaced in 2016
10. a list continuation indented, so its "::" stops swallowing the
paragraph and the note beneath it
The first three are related, and the third has been under discussion.
The great majority of command blocks already carry a prompt, so patch 3
finishes a convention rather than proposing one, and patches 1 and 2
remove the cost that convention imposes on a reader.
Patch 2 is the substance: copybutton_prompt_text was the literal "$ ",
so on a block prompted any other way nothing matched, and sphinx-
copybutton then falls back to copying every line, prompt and output
alike. That took in the root prompts, the Windows sessions in
dev-manual/start.rst and the pydevshell session, so the pattern now names
each prompt shape the manuals use. Selection had the opposite defect: it
took the output along with the commands, which the button never did.
Patch 1 comes first because patch 2 treats "#" as a prompt only when a
preamble precedes it. That is not a shortcut: a bare "#" opens a root
prompt, a comment and a line of program output alike, and the manuals
use it for output and for comments far more often than for a prompt.
Giving the stragglers the preamble the rest already use makes the rule
true rather than approximate.
Every commit builds with zero warnings under -W, which is the Makefile
default, and each was built on its own rather than only at the tip.
sphinx-lint over the touched files is unchanged from origin/master.
Trevor Woerner (10):
docs: give the root prompts a preamble
docs: copy only the command from a console block
docs: show a prompt on commands the reader is meant to type
docs: write an elided passage as a comment
docs: mark the placeholders in examples
docs: remove real accounts from the examples
kernel-dev: give each example block one thing to hold
ref-manual: put the ARCHIVER_MODE comments on their own lines
ref-manual: drop "partition" as a wic kickstart command
dev-manual: indent a list continuation so the code block ends
documentation/brief-yoctoprojectqs/index.rst | 2 +-
documentation/bsp-manual/bsp.rst | 4 +-
documentation/conf.py | 21 ++-
.../contributor-guide/recipe-style-guide.rst | 2 +-
.../contributor-guide/submit-changes.rst | 62 ++++----
.../dev-manual/creating-fragments.rst | 4 +-
documentation/dev-manual/debugging.rst | 13 +-
documentation/dev-manual/devtool.rst | 8 +-
documentation/dev-manual/disk-space.rst | 4 +-
documentation/dev-manual/hashequivserver.rst | 2 +-
documentation/dev-manual/layers.rst | 12 +-
.../dev-manual/limiting-resources.rst | 2 +-
documentation/dev-manual/new-recipe.rst | 6 +-
documentation/dev-manual/packages.rst | 4 +-
.../dev-manual/python-development-shell.rst | 1 -
documentation/dev-manual/qemu.rst | 10 +-
documentation/dev-manual/start.rst | 2 +-
.../dev-manual/upgrading-recipes.rst | 18 +--
documentation/dev-manual/wayland.rst | 6 +-
documentation/dev-manual/wic.rst | 44 +++---
documentation/kernel-dev/advanced.rst | 139 ++++++++++--------
documentation/kernel-dev/common.rst | 37 +++--
.../migration-guides/migration-2.1.rst | 4 +-
.../migration-guides/migration-2.5.rst | 4 +-
.../migration-guides/migration-3.2.rst | 2 +-
.../migration-guides/migration-4.0.rst | 2 +-
.../migration-guides/migration-5.2.rst | 16 +-
.../migration-guides/migration-5.3.rst | 10 +-
.../migration-guides/release-notes-4.2.rst | 2 +-
.../migration-guides/release-notes-5.3.rst | 2 +-
documentation/overview-manual/concepts.rst | 2 +-
documentation/profile-manual/usage.rst | 4 +-
documentation/ref-manual/classes.rst | 8 +-
.../ref-manual/devtool-reference.rst | 10 +-
documentation/ref-manual/faq.rst | 6 +-
documentation/ref-manual/fragments.rst | 16 +-
documentation/ref-manual/kickstart.rst | 9 +-
documentation/ref-manual/qa-checks.rst | 4 +-
documentation/ref-manual/variables.rst | 40 +++--
documentation/sdk-manual/extensible.rst | 6 +-
.../sphinx-static/theme_overrides.css | 36 +++++
.../test-manual/reproducible-builds.rst | 2 +-
documentation/test-manual/runtime-testing.rst | 4 +-
43 files changed, 329 insertions(+), 263 deletions(-)
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-22 2:03 Trevor Woerner [this message]
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 01/10] docs: give the root prompts a preamble Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 02/10] docs: copy only the command from a console block Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 12:20 ` [docs] " Antonin Godard
2026-09-22 14:40 ` Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 15:16 ` Antonin Godard
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 03/10] docs: show a prompt on commands the reader is meant to type Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 12:19 ` [docs] " Antonin Godard
2026-09-22 14:23 ` Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 04/10] docs: write an elided passage as a comment Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 05/10] docs: mark the placeholders in examples Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 06/10] docs: remove real accounts from the examples Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 07/10] kernel-dev: give each example block one thing to hold Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 12:19 ` [docs] " Antonin Godard
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 08/10] ref-manual: put the ARCHIVER_MODE comments on their own lines Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 09/10] ref-manual: drop "partition" as a wic kickstart command Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 12:19 ` [docs] " Antonin Godard
2026-09-22 2:03 ` [PATCH 10/10] dev-manual: indent a list continuation so the code block ends Trevor Woerner
2026-09-22 12:19 ` [docs] " Antonin Godard
2026-09-22 12:19 ` [docs] [PATCH 00/10] docs: editorial repairs to the examples Antonin Godard
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