On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 02:12:01 +0000 Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfrapr...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> Sphinx 3.1 introduced namespaces for C cross-references. With this, > each C domain type/function declaration is put inside the namespace that > was active at the time of its declaration. > > Add support for automatic cross-referencing inside C namespaces by > checking whether the corresponding source file had a C namespace Sphinx > directive, and if so, try cross-referencing inside of it before going to > the global scope. > > This assumes there's only one namespace (if any) per rst file. > > Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfrapr...@protonmail.com> > --- > > To those following from v1: > > I ended up doing the simplest solution possible, which is to just directly > read > the rst source corresponding to the doc page right before doing the > automarkup. > It's not very efficient in the sense that the source is being read > twice (first by Sphinx, then by this), but it sidesteps the "data sharing > between processes" issue, so parallel_read_safe can be reenabled, and I didn't > notice any performance hit from this patch (as opposed to the big hit from > v1). > Works with both Sphinx 2 and 3. The solution does lack elegance, but it is a solution, which is more than we had before :) That said, rather than re-opening and re-reading the file, why not just connect to the source-read event, which will happily hand you the document source that it has already read? Thanks, jon
