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+libremessages(1) -- common Bash routines
+========================================
+
+## SYNOPSIS
+
+`. $(librelib messages)`<br>
+`. libremessages`<br>
+`libremessages` <COMMAND>
+
+## DESCRIPTION
+
+`libremessages` is a shell library containing many common routines.
+The name is a bit of a misnomer, it mostly deals with printing
+messages, but also has other things.
+
+`libremessages` uses `common.sh`(3) internally for a large portion of
+it's functionality. The authors make no promises that functionality
+that is implemented in `libremessages` won't move into `common.sh` or
+vice-versa. So, it is recommended that you use `libremessages`, not
+`common.sh`.
+
+### STAND ALONE USAGE
+
+The "normal" way to use libremessages is to source it, then call the
+provided routines.
+
+However, if you call libremessages directly, the first argument is
+taken as a the function to call, and the remaining arguments are
+passed to it. The only cases where this doesn't work are the lockfile
+routines (`lock`, `slock`, and `lock_close`), because lockfiles are
+managed as file descriptors.
+
+### VARIABLES
+
+The following variables for printing terminal color codes are set:
+`ALL_OFF`, `BOLD`, `BLUE`, `GREEN`, `RED`, `YELLOW`. If standard
+error is not a terminal (see `isatty`(3)), they are set, but empty.
+They are marked as readonly, so it is an error to try to set them
+afterwords.
+
+### MESSAGE FORMAT
+
+All routines feed the message/format string through `gettext`(1), if
+it is available.
+
+The descriptions will frequently reference `printf`(1)--this isn't
+really that `printf`. The program described by the manual page
+`printf`(1) is probably the version from GNU coreutils, every time it
+is used here, it is `bash`(1)'s internal implementation; try running
+the command `help printf` from a Bash shell for more information.
+
+### GENERAL ROUTINES
+
+ * `_` <MESSAGE>:
+ If `gettext` is available, calls `gettext`, otherwise just prints
+ the arguments given.
+
+ * `in_array` <NEEDLE> <HAYSTACK>...:
+ Evaluates whether <HAYSTACK> includes <NEEDLE>; returns 0 if it
+ does, non-zero if it doesn't.
+
+ * `panic`:
+ For the times when you can't reasonably continue, similar to
+ "assert" in some languages.
+
+ * `term_title` <MESSAGE>...:
+ Joins all arguments with whitespace, and sets the terminal title
+ to that.
+
+### PROSE ROUTINES
+
+These routines print to standard output, ande are useful for printing
+word-wrapped prose.
+
+ * `print` <MESSAGE> [<ARGS>...]:
+ Like `printf`(1), but `gettext`-aware, and automatically prints a
+ trailing newline.
+
+ * `prose` <MESSAGE> [<ARGS>...]:
+ Takes a `printf`(1)-formatted string, collapses whitespace
+ (HTML-style), and then word-wraps it.
+
+ * `bullet` <MESSAGE> [<ARGS>...]:
+ Similar to `prose`, but prints a bullet point before the first
+ line, and indents the remaining lines.
+
+ * `flag` <FLAG> <DESCRIPTION>:
+ Print a flag and description formatted for `--help` text. For
+ example:<br>
+ `flag '-N' 'Disable networking in the chroot'`<br>
+ The description is fed through `gettext`, the flag is not, so if
+ part of the flag needs to be translated, you must do that
+ yourself:<br>
+ `flag "-C <$(_ FILE)>" 'Use this file instead of pacman.conf'`<br>
+ Newlines in the description are ignored; it is
+ whitespace-collapsed (so newlines are stripped), then it is
+ re-word-wrapped, in the same way as `prose` and `bullet`.
+
+### NOTIFICATION ROUTINES
+
+These routines print to standard error, and all take arguments in the
+same format as `printf`(1), except for `stat_done`, which doesn't take
+any arguments.
+
+ * `plain` <MESSAGE> [<ARGS>...]:
+ Prints "plain" message in bold, indented with 4 spaces.
+
+ * `msg` <MESSAGE> [<ARGS>...]:
+ Prints a top-level priority notification.
+
+ * `msg2` <MESSAGE> [<ARGS>...]:
+ Prints a secondary notification.
+
+ * `warning` <MESSAGE> [<ARGS>...]:
+ Prints a warning.
+
+ * `error` <MESSAGE> [<ARGS>...]:
+ Prints an error message.
+
+ * `stat_busy` <MESSAGE> [<ARGS>...]:
+ Prints a "working..." type message without a trailing newline.
+
+ * `stat_done`:
+ Prints a "done" type message to terminate `stat_busy`.
+
+### TEMPORARY DIRECTORY MANAGEMENT
+
+These are used by devtools, and not used within the rest of
+libretools.
+
+They work by creating and removing the directory referred to by the
+variable $<WORKDIR>; `libretools.conf`(5) uses the same variable to
+where the user saves all their work. If you aren't careful with
+these, you could end up deleting a lot of someone's work.
+
+ * `setup_workdir`:
+ Creates a temporary directory, and sets the environmental
+ variable $<WORKDIR> to it. Also sets traps for the signals INT,
+ QUIT, TERM and HUP to run `abort`; and EXIT to run `cleanup`
+ (see `signal`(7)).
+
+ * `cleanup` [<EXIT_STATUS>]:
+ *If* `setup_workdir` has been run, `rm -rf "$WORKDIR"`. If given
+ a numeric argument, it will then call `exit`(1) with that argument.
+
+ * `abort`:
+ Calls `msg` with the message "Aborting...", then calls
+ `cleanup 0`.
+
+ * `die` <MESSAGE> [<ARGS>...]:
+ Exactly like `error`, but calls `cleanup` and calls `exit`(1)
+ with a status of 1.
+
+### LOCKFILE ROUTINES
+
+ * `lock` <FD> <LOCKFILE> <MESSAGE> [<MSG_ARGS>...]:
+ Opens (creating if nescessary) the file <LOCKFILE> with file
+ descriptor <FD> in the current process, and gets an exclusive
+ lock on it. If another program already has a lock on the file,
+ and this program needs to wait for the lock to be release, then
+ it uses `stat_busy`/`stat_done` to print <MESSAGE>.
+
+ * `slock` <FD> <LOCKFILE> <MESSAGE> [<MSG_ARGS>...]:
+ Identical like `lock`, but opens a shared lock. This is also
+ known as a "read lock". Many programs can have a shared lock at
+ the same time, as long as no one has an exclusive lock on it.
+
+ * `lock_close` <FD>:
+ Closes file descriptor <FD>, releasing the lock opened on it.
+
+### MAKEPKG ROUTINES
+
+These routines relate to `makepkg`(8).
+
+ * `get_full_version` [<PKGNAME>]:
+ Inspects variables that are set, and prints the full version
+ spec, including <epoch> if necessary, <pkgver>, and <pkgrel>. By
+ default, it will print the information for <pkgbase>, following
+ the normal rules for finding <pkgbase>. If <PKGNAME> is given,
+ it will print the information for that sub-package. The versions
+ for different parts of a split package don't have to be the same!
+
+## BUGS
+
+libremessages sets <TEXTDOMAIN> to `libretools` unconditionally,
+making it generally unsuitable for use outside of libretools. If you
+override <TEXTDOMAIN> after loading the library, that should work, but
+you will also have to provide translations for libremessage's internal
+messages (such as "ERROR" or "Warning").
+
+Generating `.pot` files for the prose functions is a pain. The
+libretools Makefiles have rules to do it, but it might make sense to
+pull it into a separate program.
+
+`term_title` currently only knows about the terminals screen, tmux,
+xterm and rxvt (and their various <TERM> values;
+"rxvt-unicode-256color" is still rxvt).
+
+Also, I think `abort` calling `cleanup 1` would make more sense than
+`cleanup 0`.
+
+## SEE ALSO
+
+librelib(7), gettext(1), common.sh(3)
+
+Things that were mentioned:
+
+bash(1), exit(1), isatty(3), libretools.conf(5), makepkg(8),
+printf(1), signal(7)