Currently, when a variable like $fish_color_command is set but empty:
set -g fish_color_command
what happens is that highlight parses it and ends up with a "normal"
color.
Change it so instead it sees that the variable is empty and goes
on to check the fallback variable, e.g. fish_color_normal.
That makes it easier to make themes that override variables.
This means that older themes that expect an empty variable to be
"normal" need to be updated to set it to "normal".
Following from this, we could make writing .theme files easier by no
longer requiring them to list all variables with specific values.
Either the theme reader could be updated to implicitly set known color
variables to empty, or the themes could feature empty values.
See #8787.
* New -n flag for string join command.
This is an argument that excludes empty result items. Fixes#8351
* New documentation for string-join.
The new argument --no-empty was added at string-join manpage.
* New completions for the new -n flag for string join.
* Remove the documentation of the new -n flag of string join0
The reason to remove this new argument in the join0 is that this flag basically doesn't make any difference in the join0.
* Refactor the validation for the string join.
The string join command was using the length of the argument, this commit changes the validation to use the empty function.
* Revert #4b56ab452
The reason for the revert is thath the build broke on the ubuntu in the Github actions.
* Revert #e72e239a1
The reason the compilation on GitHub broke is that the test was weird, it didn't even run it, Common CI systems are typically very very resource-constrained.
* Resolve conflicts in the string-join.rst.
* Resolve conflicts in the "string-join.rst".
commit #1242d0fd7 not fixed all conflicts.
* Implement fish_wcstod_underscores
* Add fish_wcstod_underscores unit tests
* Switch to using fish_wcstod_underscores in tinyexpr
* Add tests for math builtin underscore separator functionality
* Add documentation for underscore separators for math builtin
* Add a changelog entry for underscore numeric separators
Otherwise this does "justify", which in bad cases can spread the text
over the width of the whole line, leaving awkward space between words.
This looks something like
```
The main file is ~/.config/fish/config.fish
```
The current python docs theme also left-aligns.
If a code block includes a line starting with ">", we assume it shows
an interactive session, all lines starting with ">" are commands and
the rest is output.
Unfortunately, in something like:
```
> for val in $PATh
echo "entry: $val"
end
entry: /usr/bin
```
this won't highlight the dangling lines. We could also prefix them
with `>`, but that require us to parse them in blocks or the `end`
would be an error.
So, for now, simply don't give these as a prompt but as a script with
cheesy comments describing the output.
Includes harmonizing the display of options and arguments, standardising
terminology, using the envvar directive more broadly, adding help options to all
commands that support them, simplifying some language, and tidying up multiple
formatting issues.
string documentation is not changed.
man(1) uses lowercase placeholders but we usually don't. Additionally,
the new synopsis autoformatting only recognizes placeholders if they
are uppercase. Use uppercase for all placeholders.
Recent synopsis changes move from literal code blocks to
[RST line blocks]. This does not translate well to HTML: it's not
rendered in monospace, so aligment is lost. Additionally, we don't
get syntax highlighting in HTML, which adds differences to our code
samples which are highlighted.
We hard-wrap synopsis lines (like code blocks). To align continuation
lines in manpages we need [backslashes in weird places]. Combined with
the **, *, and `` markup, it's a bit hard to get the alignment right.
Fix these by moving synopsis sources back to code blocks and compute
HTML syntax highlighting and manpage markup with a custom Sphinx
extension.
The new Pygments lexer can tokenize a synopsis and assign the various
highlighting roles, which closely matches fish's syntax highlighing:
- command/keyword (dark blue)
- parameter (light blue)
- operator like and/or/not/&&/|| (cyan)
- grammar metacharacter (black)
For manpage output, we don't project the fish syntax highlighting
but follow the markup convention in GNU's man(1):
bold text type exactly as shown.
italic text replace with appropriate argument.
To make it easy to separate these two automatically, formalize that
(italic) placeholders must be uppercase; while all lowercase text is
interpreted literally (so rendered bold).
This makes manpages more consistent, see string-join(1) and and(1).
Implementation notes:
Since we want manpage formatting but Sphinx's Pygments highlighing
plugin does not support manpage output, add our custom "synopsis"
directive. This directive parses differently when manpage output is
specified. This means that the HTML and manpage build processes must
not share a cache, because the parsed doctrees are cached. Work around
this by using separate cache locations for build targets "sphinx-docs"
(which creates HTML) and "sphinx-manpages". A better solution would
be to only override Sphinx's ManualPageBuilder but that would take a
bit more code (ideally we could override ManualPageWriter but Sphinx
4.3.2 doesn't really support that).
---
Alternative solution: stick with line blocks but use roles like
:command: or :option: (or custom ones). While this would make it
possible to produce HTML that is consistent with code blocks (by adding
a bit of CSS), the source would look uglier and is harder to maintain.
(Let's say we want to add custom formatting to the [|] metacharacters
in HTML. This is much easier with the proposed patch.)
---
[RST line blocks]: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#line-blocks
[backslashes in weird places]: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/8626#discussion_r782837750
The next commit will load another of our Python extensions from a
separate file. That extension will contain more than just a Pygments
lexer, so instead of using a function that can only load a lexer,
just import from the module to keep things consistent.
Keywords and options recently got dedicated highlighting roles in
b3626d48e (Highlight keywords differently, 2021-02-04) and
711796ad1 (Highlight options differently, 2021-10-19)
but still default to "command" and "parameter", respectively.
The dedicated roles were not colored by our CSS theme,
which makes a "test -f foo.txt" look weird:
- "test" is dark blue (since it's a command)
- "foo.txt" is light blue (since it's a parameter)
- "-f" is black (weird!)
The CSS theme doesn't support configuration, so the dedicated
highlighting roles should always default to their fallback
options. Make it so.
This corrects what looks like wrong alignment of some synopsis lines.
(I think the alignment is not a bad idea but it makes us do more
manual work, maybe we can automate that in future. We still need to
figure out how to translate it to HTML.)
"man -l build/user_doc/man/man1/history.1" before:
string match [-a | --all] [-e | --entire] [-i | --ignore-case]
[-r | --regex] [-n | --index] [-q | --quiet] [-v | --invert]
PATTERN [STRING…]
and after:
string match [-a | --all] [-e | --entire] [-i | --ignore-case]
[-r | --regex] [-n | --index] [-q | --quiet] [-v | --invert]
PATTERN [STRING…]
Also make the lines align the same way in the RST source by carefully
choosing the position of the backslash. I'm not sure why we used
two backslashes per line. Use only one; this gives us no choice
of where to put it so both source and man page output are aligned.
Change tabs to spaces to make the alignment in the source work.
The ellipsis is a grammar metacharacter, just like the []()|.
Write *FOO*… instead of *FOO…*, so the ellipsis is not underlined
in the man page. Not super sure about this one.
This matches the style in man(1) (except that we use the … ligature).
A previous iteration did the reverse (never use a space before the
ellipsis). That would be a smaller change.
We use plural "*OPTIONS*" more often than "*OPTION*...", so let's do
that everywhere.
In some other places where we do have an ellipsis, make sure to use
singular, since the ellipsis already means repetition. This change
is incomplete, and I'm not sure if this is worth it, since it's
subjective, so I might drop it.
Correct the grammar by moving the options after the command argument.
Also group the -c/--command and -p/--path pairs, to convey that the
short and long variants are equivalent.
While at it, consolidate the -C/--do-complete forms, like we usually
do.
One synopsis misrenders as
set [options] VARIABLE*[*INDICES]… VALUES…
Add a missing backslash to fix that. Also go back to uppercase
because I'm not sure why this was changed to lowercase.
Finally, remove the spurious ellipsis after VARIABLE[INDICES].
This element cannot be repeated. Multiple index values and ranges
can be specified but that's already implied by the plural INDICES.
For alteration we usually use "(a | b)", not "{a | b}".
While at it, instead of writing 4/6 subcommands in one line, write them
on separate lines, so it's very obvious that all these are separate
subcommands. We mainly use the (a | b) syntax for long/short options.
The -- is not special here and we don't mention it in other synopses.
It was originally added for a good reason in 98449fec5 (fix `math`
regression, 2017-07-14), along this addition to math.rst:
> You should always place a `--` flag separator before the expression. [...]
However, since 56d913453 (Cache math expressions, 2017-08-24) that
line was changed to
> You don't need to use `--` before the expression even if it begins with a minus sign [...]
Previously, when we got an unknown option with --ignore-unknown, we
would increment woptind but still try to read the same contents.
This means in e.g.
```
argparse -i h -- -ooo -h
```
The `-h` would also be skipped as an option, because after the first
`-o` getopt reads the other two `-o` and skips that many options.
This could be handled more extensively in wgetopt, but the simpler fix
is to just skip to the next argv entry once we have an unknown option
- there's nothing more we can do with it anyway!
Additionally, document this and clearly explain that we currently
don't transform the option.
Fixes#8637
Unfortunately the normal font families like "sans-serif" and
"monospace" are basically broken because the browser defaults are
decades old.
TODO: Inline code is barely distinguishable.
Unfortunately this removes the index also from the sidebar in other pages. This makes it basically inaccessible.
Maybe there is a way to not show it in the list at the bottom, but this isn't it. Maybe a manual list of pages instead of reusing the TOC?
This reverts commit b5a95317f0.
Use the remaining_to_disclose count to determine if all completions
are shown (allows consistent behavior between short and long completion
lists).
Closes#8485
Currently,
set -q --unpath PATH
simply ignores the "--unpath" bit (and same for "--path").
This changes it, so just like exportedness you can check pathness.
Unless we use "complete --require-parameter", we must say "-w32",
not "-w 32", because the second "32" is a positional argument.
Notably, old options do not have this behavior, which is a bit weird,
see #8465
Taken from a discussion in #8459
* fish_key_reader: Simplify default output
It now only prints the bind statement. Timing information and such is
relegated to a separate "verbose" mode.
* Adjust fish_key_reader docs
* Adjust tests
Unlike in other shells, for-loops do not set $status if
1. the loop count is zero, or if
2. the loop body consists of only commands like "set" that don't
set $status.
POSIX for-loops always set an exit status (they set 0 if no loop
iterations). Following that would be awkward because it would add a
lot of complexity in combination with the 2 special cases above.
Document that "for" behaves the same as "set": it will pass through
existing $status, and also the last child's $status.
See the discussion in #8409
Adding the underline in the list of sections makes them bleed
together, making it hard to discern where one ends and the other
begins.
In the body of the text we don't have that issue - multiple links are
rarely next to each other.
Fixes#8439
Unfortunately, currently :program: doesn't link to the program's page.
So we use the old-school :ref: again where we should link, i.e. for
everything that's not the program the current page is about.
Fixes#8438
Documents like fish-tutorial don't need the NAME portion below.
(they also shoudln't be in section 1! These should be section 7,
they aren't for programs.)
the manpage writer will skip NAME if given an empty sstring as
the description.
--
FISH-TUTORIAL(1) fish-shell FISH-TUTORIAL(1)
NAME
fish-tutorial - fish-shell tutorial
This fixes the indentation problem for the SYNOPSIS section by not
inserting the :: literal block. Format it the same way Sphinx does
their own manpages for commands.
Use more semantic markup, like :command:, so that commands are
highlighted in the man pages.
Split by sentence to give `man` a chance to ascertain lines.
Long-term, it should be possible to teach Sphinx to turn :command:s
into references and get us automatic links to articles for matching
cmds/*.
This introduces a new variable, $fish_color_option, that can be used
to highlight options differently.
Options are tokens starting with `-`, but only up to (and including!)
the first `--`.
Fixes#8292.
This uses a bit of javascript to add copy buttons, so you can directly
copy all the code in a given block to the clipboard!
For codeblocks without prompts, it just copies all the code, for
blocks with prompts, it copies all the lines after prompts, under the
assumption that that's the code to be executed.
It would give you *all* the lines, so the output wouldn't be
interleaved like it is in the html, but good enough.
The buttons appear on hover, so they aren't usable on phones, but
since you won't really have a clipboard on phones and I have no idea
how to make them not always in front of the text otherwise: Eh.
I'm not in love with the javascript here, but it'll do.
* commandline: Add --is-valid option to query whether it's syntactically complete
This means querying when the commandline is in a state that it could
be executed. Because our `execute` bind function also inserts a
newline if it isn't.
One case that's not handled right now: `execute` also expands
abbreviations, those can technically make the commandline invalid
again.
Unfortunately we have no real way to *check* without doing the
replacement.
Also since abbreviations are only available in command position when
you _execute_ them the commandline will most likely be valid.
This is enough to make transient prompts work:
```fish
function reset-transient --on-event fish_postexec
set -g TRANSIENT 0
end
function maybe_execute
if commandline --is-valid
set -g TRANSIENT 1
commandline -f repaint
else
set -g TRANSIENT 0
end
commandline -f execute
end
bind \r maybe_execute
```
and then in `fish_prompt` react to $TRANSIENT being set to 1.
That `find` example is a bit dated and awkward, and doesn't really fit
the section.
We also don't want to point people to `?` because we want to remove it.
* Add `set --function`
This makes the function's scope available, even inside of blocks. Outside of blocks it's the toplevel local scope.
This removes the need to declare variables locally before use, and will probably end up being the main way variables get set.
E.g.:
```fish
set -l thing
if condition
set thing one
else
set thing two
end
```
could be written as
```fish
if condition
set -f thing one
else
set -f thing two
end
```
Note: Many scripts shipped with fish use workarounds like `and`/`or`
instead of `if`, so it isn't easy to find good examples.
Also, if there isn't an else-branch in that above, just with
```fish
if condition
set -f thing one
end
```
that means something different from setting it before! Now, if
`condition` isn't true, it would use a global (or universal) variable of
te same name!
Some more interesting parts:
Because it *is* a local scope, setting a variable `-f` and
`-l` in the toplevel of a function ends up the same:
```fish
function foo2
set -l foo bar
set -f foo baz # modifies the *same* variable!
end
```
but setting it locally inside a block creates a new local variable
that shadows the function-scoped variable:
```fish
function foo3
set -f foo bar
begin
set -l foo banana
# $foo is banana
end
# $foo is bar again
end
```
This is how local variables already work. "Local" is actually "block-scoped".
Also `set --show` will only show the closest local scope, so it won't
show a shadowed function-level variable. Again, this is how local
variables already work, and could be done as a separate change.
As a fun tidbit, functions with --no-scope-shadowing can now use this to set variables in the calling function. That's probably okay given that it's already an escape hatch (but to be clear: if it turns out to problematic I reserve the right to remove it).
Fixes#565
For some reason I've seen one version of firefox use this over the one
we set in pydoctheme.css. Since we set it there in both light and dark
mode, this one should not be used.
This is opt-in through a new feature flag "ampersand-nobg-in-token".
When this flag and "qmark-noglob" are enabled, this command no longer
needs quoting:
curl https://example.com/thing?foo=bar&duran=duran
Compared to the previous approach e1570a4 ("Let '&' only separate as
the first char of a word"), this has some advantages:
1. "&&" and "&>" are no longer affected. They are still special, even
if used between tokens without spaces, like "echo bar&>foo".
Maybe this is not really *better*, but it avoids risking to annoy
users by breaking the old variant.
2. "&" is still special if at the end of a token, like in "sleep 1&".
Word movement is not affected by the semantics change, so Alt-F and
friends still stop at every "&".
Currently, if a "return" is given outside of a function, we'd just
throw an error.
That always struck me as a bit weird, given that scripts can also
return a value.
So simply let "return" outside also exit the script, kinda like "exit"
does.
However, unlike "exit" it doesn't quit an interactive shell - it seems
weird to have "return" do that as well. It sets $status, so it can be
used to quickly set that, in case you want to test something.
Still not happy with this, it's overwhelming!
Might have to split this into two - one with simple paths and rough
descriptions, and one with the full scoop for experts?
For builtins that have the same name as common commands, it might not
be entirely obvious that there is another page.
So, for those builtins, we add a note, but only in the man pages.
(exception is true and false because the note would be longer than the
page, and it's fridging true and false)
Fixes#8077.
`fish_config theme`:
- `list` to list all available themes (files in the two theme
directories - either the web_config/themes one or
~/.config/fish/themes!)
- `show` to show select (or all) themes right in the terminal - this
starts another fish that reads the theme file and prints the sample
text, manually colored
- `choose` to load a theme *now*, setting the variables globally
- `save` to load a theme and save the variables universally
- `dump` to write the current theme in .theme format (to stdout)
- `demo` to display the current theme
Instead of having a toctree after the "index", just append the
important documents directly. Having one pdf file with different
chapters and sections and such feels better.
This allows
sphinx-build -blinkcheck . /dev/null
To be used without getting rate-limited to hell by github because the
release notes include hundreds of links to our own issues. Just assume
all issue numbers are valid.
pdflatex simply doesn't cut it.
This still results in an awkward pdf that starts with "Further
Reading" (the intro section is placed before it, but doesn't have a
chapter marker!) and ends with a massive "Other help pages" chapter
that includes *the entire rest of the docs*.
But it's generally readable and acceptably formatted (with a lot of
empty pages in between).
* string: Allow `collect --no-empty` to avoid empty ellision
Currently we still have that issue where
test -n (thing | string collect)
can return true if `thing` doesn't print anything, because the
collected argument will still be removed.
So, what we do is allow `--no-empty` to be used, in which case we
print one empty argument.
This means
test -n (thing | string collect -n)
can now be safely used.
"no-empty" isn't the best name for this flag, but string's design
really incentivizes reusing names, and it's not *terrible*.
* Switch to `--allow-empty`
`--no-empty` does the exact opposite for `string split` and split0.
Since `-a`/`--allow-empty` already exists, use it.
First, I changed "the escape key" to :kbd:`Esc`. This makes this information
easier to find when scanning the docs because it stands out and because it is
more consistent with the docs's formatting of keyboard keys.
Additionally, emphasize that escape/page-down can be used to edit
the original search sting.
Finally, I added a link from the FAQ to history-search to make this mechanism
easier to discover.
This was all to address confusion in former zsh and bash users as to how to
edit a search that is in progress, but this will also help new users. See
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/6686#issuecomment-872960760
Especially in dark-mode this was often too close to the background.
Should make it easier to read.
As always, colors not checked for artistic merit for I have none.
