This makes it easier to get *any pager* in the number of places we do.
Unfortunately:
1. It can't just execute the pager because that might block
2. We can't really set the necessary options for less here
so they still need to be set outside.
This
Fixes#10074
by falling back to `cat` in that case. We could also decide to abort
instead of using a non-pager, but for history that's probably fine.
After deleting a history item with
history delete --exact --case-sensitive the-item
it is still reachable by history search until the shell is restarted.
Let's fix this by saving history after each deletion. The non-exact variants
of "history delete" already do this. I think this was just an oversight
owed to the fact that hardly anyone uses "--exact" (else we would surely
have changed it to not require an explicit "--case-sensitive").
- Introduce BUILTIN_ERR_COMBO2_EXCLUSIVE
- Distill generally more terse, unambiguous error descriptions.
Remember English is not everyone's language.
- Do not capitalize sentence fragments
- Use the modality where problem input is in a %s: prefix, then
is explained.
- Do not address the user (the "You cannot do ..." kraderism)
- Spell out 'arguments' rather than 'args' for consistency
- Mention 'function' as a scope
The less -F / --quit-if-one-screen option is buggy before v530. To work
around this, pass --no-init less versions older than 530.
The --no-init option was previously passed; it was removed in d15a51897d
for mouse support. Unfortunately it looks like we can't have mouse
support and --quit-if-one-screen on macOS shipped less (version 487).
It's worth fixing this because otherwise history and help is just not
printed on stock macOS.
Relevant is https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/107315/less-quit-if-one-screen-without-no-initFixes#8157.
Stop using "--no-init"/"-X" because we have no actual reason to and it
may break mouse initialization on my best friend macOS.
Use --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS, the capital version that only lets through
specific escape sequences, not *everything* - we shouldn't have
anything weird here, but less heavily discourages the other version.
Allow a user's $LESS to override.
Fixes#7997.
"-C" is short for "--case-sensitive", which is entirely okay with "--delete".
The one that isn't okay is "-X", which is short for "--Clear".
Seen on gitter.im
This just makes more sense, as people don't want to enter exact
matches if they delete interactively.
It also brings it in line with "search".
Fixes#6142
Rejects #6070
Largely reverts 007d794b6e.
fish_indent is extremely resource-intensive on large inputs and can crash; it also does not handle
invalid characters gracefully.
Work on #5402.
- Colorize history search output when interactive, using
fish_indent. This is the same way we colorize `type` output.
- Ask less to act like `cat` if the output will fit in the
terminal window, so it's less jaring with short output.
- history is viewed in a pager when interactive, but pagers
typically strip escape codes. We accomplish the above by
doing exactly what `git` does[1] when it has colored output
for a pager:
if $LESS is unset, set it to enable -R, -F, and -X options.
if $LV is unset, set it to -c.
[1]: 398dd4bd03/pager.c (L87)
This flag was only documented for a few weeks before being renamed
`--show-time` and has been deprecated for a long time. Fish 3.0 is a good
opportunity to remove it.
* Implement `history search --reverse`
It should be possible to have `history search` output ordered oldest to
newest like nearly every other shell including bash, ksh, zsh, and csh.
We can't make this the default because too many people expect the
current behavior. This simply makes it possible for people to define
their own abbreviations or functions that provide behavior they are
likely used to if they are transitioning to fish from another shell.
This also fixes a bug in the `history` function with respect to how it
handles the `-n` / `--max` flag.
Fixes#4354
* Fix comment for format_history_record()
While updating the `history` function to use `argparse` I realized it is
useful to define an option that can be used in three ways. First by
using the short flag; e.g., `-n NNN`. Second by using the long flag;
e.g., `--max NNN`. Third, as an implicit int flag; e.g., `-NNN`. This
use case is now supported by a spec of the form `n#max`.
While working on making the history command support case-sensitive and
insensitive searches I noticed that entering "all" when interactively
deleting history entries resulted in an error. That's because the
history builtin currently only supports `--exact` so we need to loop
over the matching entries and delete them one at a time.
Fixes#3448
This adds a flag to the `history search` command to limit the number of
matching entries to the first "n". The default is unlimited. This is
mostly useful in conjunction with aliases (i.e., functions) that are
intended to report the "n" most recent matching history entries without
piping the result through the user's pager.
Fixes#3244
This deprecates the use of long options for history sub-commands (e.g.,
`history --delete`) in favor of proper sub-commands (e.g., `history
delete`). It also eliminates the short options for those sub-commands.
Also change option processing to allow options anywhere on the command
line to match how the vast majority of fish builtins handle flags.
Replace --with-time with --show-time.
Fixes#3367
Implementing the --shadow-builtin flag has proven to be highly controversial.
Revert the introduction of that flag to the `function` command. If someone
shoots themselves in the foot by redefining a builtin as a function that's
their problem and not our responsibility to protect them from doing so.
Fixes#3319
The recent change to reconcile the history builtin command and function
broke an undocumented behavior of `history --delete`. This change
reinstates that behavior. It also adds an explicit `--exact` search mode
for the `--search` and `--delete` subcommands.
Fixes#3270
This fixes several problems with how the builtin `history` command handles
arguments. It now complains and refuses to do anything if the user specifies
incompatible actions (e.g., `--search` and `--clear`). It also fixes a
regression introduced by previous changes with regard to invocations that
don't explicitly specify `--search` or a search term.
Enhances the history man page to clarify the behavior of various options.
This change is already far larger than I like so unit tests will be added
in a separate commit.
Fixes#3224.
Note: This fixes only a couple problems with the interactive `history
--delete` command in the `history` function. The main problem will be
dealt with via issue #31.
We don't seem to mention in the documentation that we were forcing
-t for all interactive uses. If we want to do that we should apply
that in the builtin.
history.fish reimplementing every option and doing things kind of
differently is a real pain and it's not clear if the docs are
referring to the or the wrapper script or both.
The previous commit to add a `--with-timestamp` flag to the `history` command
caused me to notice the history function didn't recognize the new long option.
Neither did it recognize the short options for the builtin command. This
change fixes both of those issues.
It's currently too easy for someone to bork their shell by doing something
like `function test; return 0; end`. That's obviously a silly, contrived,
example but the point is that novice users who learn about functions are
prone to do something like that without realizing it will bork the shell. Even
expert users who know about the `test` builtin might forget that, say, `pwd`
is a builtin.
This change adds a `--shadow-builtin` flag that must be specified to
indicate you know what you're doing.
Fixes#3000
I'm going to modify these functions as part of dealing with issue #3000
and don't want those changes to be masked by running the files through
`make style`.
