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Author SHA1 Message Date
Johannes Altmanninger
7d5b44e828 Support FOO=bar syntax for passing variables to individual commands
This adds initial support for statements with prefixed variable assignments.
Statments like this are supported:

a=1 b=$a echo $b        # outputs 1

Just like in other shells, the left-hand side of each assignment must
be a valid variable identifier (no quoting/escaping).  Array indexing
(PATH[1]=/bin ls $PATH) is *not* yet supported, but can be added fairly
easily.

The right hand side may be any valid string token, like a command
substitution, or a brace expansion.

Since `a=* foo` is equivalent to `begin set -lx a *; foo; end`,
the assignment, like `set`, uses nullglob behavior, e.g. below command
can safely be used to check if a directory is empty.

x=/nothing/{,.}* test (count $x) -eq 0

Generic file completion is done after the equal sign, so for example
pressing tab after something like `HOME=/` completes files in the
root directory
Subcommand completion works, so something like
`GIT_DIR=repo.git and command git ` correctly calls git completions
(but the git completion does not use the variable as of now).

The variable assignment is highlighted like an argument.

Closes #6048
2019-11-25 09:20:51 +01:00
Mark Stosberg
d2455bdd5a Document alternates for common arrow key usage.
Arrow keys are often not conveniently located on keyboards, so the use of arrow keys for common keyboard shortcuts can be a turn-off for some.

I found that fish supports alternate keybindings for these cases but I didn't seem them documented in these places where the arrow keys versions are highlighted.
2019-07-31 14:09:43 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
c89883b6ab docs/faq: Fix header formatting
[ci skip]
2019-06-06 19:14:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
235266894b docs: Fix reference to FAQ
This adds a reference to one specific FAQ, so it adds a label for that
one question. It does not add the rest, because they currently aren't
linked. If you add a reference to an FAQ, you should add the label as
well.

[ci skip]
2019-04-06 23:23:48 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
ac61d3f34d docs: More references
Including two more href.
2019-03-31 11:48:35 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
cb94dd4d30 docs: Use command labels
[ci skip]
2019-03-31 11:15:57 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
0c4580d874 docs: Fix moar reference syntax 2019-03-30 20:44:07 +01:00
Fabian Homborg
203927245d docs: Fix reference syntax
Fixes #5776.

[ci skip]
2019-03-30 20:28:09 +01:00
Fabian Homborg
99d77c6049 docs: Replace &.arr; markup with unicode arrows
This is still missing the @cursor_keys bit.

See #5696.

[ci skip]
2019-03-24 20:03:52 +01:00
Fabian Homborg
848d538f08 docs: Replace @key markup with :kbd:
The best I could find. It doesn't currently appear to render in the
html, but it's better than showing `@key{thing}`.
2019-03-24 19:59:23 +01:00
GReagle
277a94c118 FAQ: how to check whether variable is defined or not empty (#5732)
* FAQ: how to check whether variable is defined or not empty

* FAQ: how to check whether variable is not empty: include test in answer
2019-03-21 10:24:08 +01:00
ridiculousfish
2d75ab8e9b Add FAQ to sphinx docs build 2019-02-24 18:23:33 -08:00