Every builtin or function shipped with fish supports flag -h or --help to
print a slightly condensed version of its manpage.
Some of those help messages are longer than a typical screen;
this commit pipes the help to a pager to make it easier to read.
As in other places in fish we assume that either $PAGER or "less" is a
valid pager and use that.
In three places (error messages for bg, break and continue) the help is
printed to stderr instead of stdout. To make sure the error message is
visible in the pager, we pass it to builtin_print_help, every call of which
needs to be updated.
Fixes#6227
We used to have a global notion of "is the shell interactive" but soon we
will want to have multiple independent execution threads, only some of
which may be interactive. Start tracking this data per-parser.
This was undocumented, not all that useful and potentially unwanted.
In particular it means that things like
mysql -p(read)
will still keep the password in history.
Also it allows us to simply implement asking for the history deletion
term.
See #5791.
This makes the following changes:
1. Events in background threads are executed in those threads, instead of
being silently dropped
2. Blocked events are now per-parser instead of global
3. Events are posted in builtin_set instead of within the environment stack
The last one means that we no longer support event handlers for implicit
sets like (example) argv. Instead only the `set` builtin (and also `cd`)
post variable-change events.
Events from universal variable changes are still not fully rationalized.
This runs build_tools/style.fish, which runs clang-format on C++, fish_indent on fish and (new) black on python.
If anything is wrong with the formatting, we should fix the tools, but automated formatting is worth it.
For some reason on Solaris the previous code was refusing to compile
with an error (regarding the declaration of stdout in the opts struct)
error: declaration of ‘__iob’ as array of references
The obvious guess that it had something to do with the name of the
variable in question proved true; renaming it from `stdout` to
`opts.stdout` allows the build to go through.
It seems that `parse_cmd_opts` does not correctly handle no arguments,
and so argc was being decremented to -1 causing uninitialized memory
access when argv[0] was dereferenced at a later point.
No longer using `-` to indicate reading to stdout. Use lack of arguments
as stdout indicator. This prevents mixing of variables with stdout
reading and makes it clear that stdout may not be mixed with delimiters
or array mode.
Added an option to read to stdout via `read -`. While it may seem
useless at first blush, it lets you do things like include
mysql -p(read --silent) ...
Without needing to save to a local variable and then echo it back.
Kicks in when `-` is provided as the variable name to read to. This is
in keeping with the de facto syntax for reading/writing from/to
stdin/stdout instead of a file in, e.g., tar, cat, and other standard
unix utilities.
This eliminates the "missing" notion of env_var_t. Instead
env_get returns a maybe_t<env_var_t>, which forces callers to
handle the possibility that the variable is missing.
Internally fish should store vars as a vector of elements. The current
flat string representation is a holdover from when the code was written
in C.
Fixes#4200
It's bugged me forever that the scope is the second arg to `env_get()`
but not `env_set()`. And since I'll be introducing some helper functions
that wrap `env_set()` now is a good time to change the order of its
arguments.
My previous change to eliminate `class var_entry_t` caused me to notice
that `env_get()` turned a set but empty var into a missing var. Which
is wrong. Fixing that brought to light several other pieces of code that
were wrong as a consequence of the aforementioned bug.
Another step to fixing issue #4200.
This is the first step to implementing issue #4200 is to stop subclassing
env_var_t from wcstring. Not too surprisingly doing this identified
several places that were incorrectly treating env_var_t and wcstring as
interchangeable types. I'm not talking about those places that passed
an env_var_t instance to a function that takes a wcstring. I'm talking
about doing things like assigning the former to the latter type, relying
on the implicit conversion, and thus losing information.
We also rename `env_get_string()` to `env_get()` for symmetry with
`env_set()` and to make it clear the function does not return a string.
This takes a string that is then split upon like `string split`.
Unlike $IFS, the string is used as one piece, not a set of characters.
There is still a fallback to IFS if no delimiter is given, that
behaves exactly as before.
Fixes#4156.
