SYNOPSIS

eric4_doc [options] files...

where files can be be either Python modules, package directories or ordinary directories.

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the eric4_doc command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation provided in the file /usr/share/doc/eric/README-eric4-doc.txt.gz in plain text format.

eric4_doc is the documentation generator of the eric4 IDE. Source code documentation may be included as ordinary Python doc-strings or as documentation comments. For Quixote Template file (PTL) only documentation comments are available due to the inner workings of Quixote. Documentation comments start with the string ###, followed by the contents and ended by ###. Every line of the documentation comments contents must start with a # (see example below).

OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

-p prefix or --prefix=prefix

Prepend given prefix to file names.

-o directory or --outdir=directory

Generate files in the named directory.

-R, -r or --recursive

Perform a recursive search for Python files.

-x directory or --exclude=directory

Specify a directory basename to be excluded. This option may be repeated multiple times.

-i or --noindex

Don't generate index files.

-e or --noempty

Don't include empty modules.

-h, --help

Show summary of options.

-v, --version

Show version of program.

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Torsten Marek <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).