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tocic
ade61fd50f docs: Fix typos 2022-09-17 21:31:06 +08:00
Mitchell Kember
ee1018ab53
Document that break cannot be used in switch 2022-09-17 00:12:10 -05:00
Fabian Boehm
47574de6b1 docs/path: Fix typos 2022-09-16 15:54:23 +02:00
Mitchell Kember
3e7ccefe11 Fix diagnostic flag in set_color docs 2022-09-15 20:01:04 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
41c22d5e60 Add string shorten
This is essentially the inverse of `string pad`.
Where that adds characters to get up to the specified width,
this adds an ellipsis to a string if it goes over a specific maximum width.
The char can be given, but defaults to our ellipsis string.
("…" if the locale can handle it and "..." otherwise)

If the ellipsis string is empty, it just truncates.

For arguments given via argv, it goes line-by-line,
because otherwise length makes no sense.

If "--no-newline" is given, it adds an ellipsis instead and removes all subsequent lines.

Like pad and `length --visible`, it goes by visible width,
skipping recognized escape sequences, as those have no influence on width.

The default target width is the shortest of the given widths that is non-zero.

If the ellipsis is already wider than the target width,
we truncate instead. This is safer overall, so we don't e.g. move into a new line.
This is especially important given our default ellipsis might be width 3.
2022-09-09 18:49:57 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
09a50a2b1e Fix typo 2022-09-08 22:50:28 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
c753f22003 docs: Format path synopsis
This was written while we changed how our synopses are formatted, so
we missed adding a "synopsis" marker to it.

The tokenizer here is a bit cheesy, so we can't mark continuation
lines with a "\", and we also can't mark the general options with a
":=". Tbh that's not a big deal.

Fixes #9154
2022-08-25 13:06:57 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
7e75118956 Document math's lack of bitnot
Fixes #9148
2022-08-23 19:55:55 +02:00
pagedown
9c16677706 help: Handle the missing builtin aliases : and [ 2022-08-12 20:45:20 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
df7b97d99d Link to correct path subcommand
Resolve is indeed the same as resolve
2022-08-08 21:13:10 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
39fbc27d8d Clarify math documentation
The words "rounded down" here get us into some trouble.
2022-08-06 10:58:46 +02:00
SeekingBlues
f9786673e3 Fix typo for or input function 2022-08-05 18:32:32 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
177cfbc605 docs/path: Add some more on resolve/normalize dichotomy 2022-08-02 19:58:43 +02:00
Johannes Altmanninger
453aac14af Advance pager history search with Control-R/Control-S
Note that every change to the search field still starts a new search, from
the end of history. We could change this in future but it's unclear to me
what the expected behavior is. I don't find the traditional readline behavior
very intuitive.
2022-07-30 23:27:24 +02:00
Johannes Altmanninger
dcff0a2f2b Add Control+R incremental history search in pager
This reimplements ridiculousfish/control_r which is a more future-proof
approach than #6686.
Pressing Control+R shows history in our pager and allows to search filter
commands with the pager search field.

On the surface, this works just like in other shells; though there are
some differences.

- Our pager shows multiple results at a time.
- Other shells allow to use up arrow/down arrow to select adjacent entries
  in history. Shouldn't be hard to implement but the hidden state might
  confuse users and it doesn't play well with up-or-search, so this is
  left out.

Users might expect the history pager to use subsequence matching (fuzzy
matching) like the completion pager, however due to the history pager design it
uses substring matching.  We could change this in future, however that means
we would also want to change the ordering from "reverse-chronological" to
"longest common subsequence" (e.g. what fuzzy finders do), because otherwise
a query "fis" might give this ordering:

            fsck /dev/disk/by-partlabel/Linux\x20filesystem
            fish

which is probably not what the user wants.

The pager shows only a small number of history items at a time.  This is
because, as explained above, the history pager does not support subsequence
matching, so navigating it does not scale well.

Closes #602
2022-07-30 23:27:24 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
547a4b2baf docs: Link some more to $PATH 2022-07-18 20:53:37 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
603a8e31e3 docs: Link fish_greeting function from FAQ
And explain the variable more in fish_greeting.

Closes #9056
2022-07-18 20:52:16 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
5dfb64b547
Add path mtime (#9057)
This can be used to print the modification time, like `stat` with some
options.

The reason is that `stat` has caused us a number of portability
headaches:

1. It's not available everywhere by default
2. The versions are quite different

For instance, with GNU stat it's `stat -c '%Y'`, with macOS it's `stat
-f %m`.

So now checking a cache file can be done just with builtins.
2022-07-18 20:39:01 +02:00
Aaron Gyes
92eb6024ed Document the three new [ operators
Explain test(1)'s -ef, -nt, -ot features.
2022-07-16 12:40:36 -07:00
Fabian Boehm
98ba66ed8e set_color: Print the given colors with --print-colors 2022-07-01 21:28:35 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
0a73b182c0 bind: Document --silent
See #9045
2022-07-01 20:46:52 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
993448d552 argparse: Allow usage without optspecs
It's still useful without, for instance to implement a command that
takes no options, or to check min-args or max-args.

(technically no optspecs, no min/max args and --ignore-unknown does
nothing, but that's a very specific error that we don't need to forbid)

Fixes #9006
2022-06-27 17:02:20 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
4f0c0486a6 Fix copy-pasteo in fish_config docs 2022-06-17 09:23:38 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
18433278ec Document that status fish-path is platform-specific 2022-06-16 16:39:09 +02:00
David Adam
0431f21bb2 docs: list reserved keywords 2022-06-16 19:45:55 +10:00
Fabian Homborg
3552a11afa fish_git_prompt: Print cleanstate character whenever it's defined
And then only define it in informative mode.
2022-06-08 21:23:43 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
ca9910edb7 fish_git_prompt: Add colors for dirty/staged branches
This is a neat feature of the terlar git prompt
2022-06-08 21:23:43 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
f9a170e5f2 git_prompt: Only show untracked files in informative mode if asked
This makes it so

1. The informative status can work without showing untracked
files (previously it was disabled if bash.showUntrackedFiles was
false)
2. If untrackedfiles isn't explicitly enabled, we use -uno, so git
doesn't have to scan all the files.

In a large repository (like the FreeBSD ports repo), this can improve
performance by a factor of 5 or up.
2022-06-07 13:30:03 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
78ffb50d1f docs: Fix typo 2022-06-07 13:28:11 +02:00
SeekingBlues
cf620c829b Improve newline behavior of kill-whole-line
Previously, `kill-whole-line` kills the line and its following
newline. This is insufficient when we are on the last line, because
it would not actually clear the line. The cursor would stay on the
line, which is not the correct behavior for bindings like `dd`.

Also, `cc` in vi-mode used `kill-whole-line`, which is not correct
because it should not remove any newlines. We have to introduce
another special input function (`kill-inner-line`) to fix this.
2022-06-04 13:45:25 -07:00
Fabian Homborg
64b34c8cda Allow complete to have multiple conditions
This makes it so `complete -c foo -n test1 -n test2` registers *both*
conditions, and when it comes time to check the candidate, tries both,
in that order. If any fails it stops, if all succeed the completion is offered.

The reason for this is that it helps with caching - we have a
condition cache, but conditions like

```fish
test (count (commandline -opc)) -ge 2; and contains -- (commandline -opc)[2] length

test (count (commandline -opc)) -ge 2; and contains -- (commandline -opc)[2] sub
```

defeats it pretty easily, because the cache only looks at the entire
script as a string - it can't tell that the first `test` is the same
in both.

So this means we separate it into

```fish
complete -f -c string -n "test (count (commandline -opc)) -ge 2; and contains -- (commandline -opc)[2] length" -s V -l visible -d "Use the visible width, excluding escape sequences"
+complete -f -c string -n "test (count (commandline -opc)) -ge 2" -n "contains -- (commandline -opc)[2] length" -s V -l visible -d "Use the visible width, excluding escape sequences"
```

which allows the `test` to be cached.

In tests, this improves performance for the string completions by 30%
by reducing all the redundant `test` calls.

The `git` completions can also greatly benefit from this.
2022-05-30 20:47:14 +02:00
Fabian Boehm
4612343d6e
Merge pull request #8958 from faho/builtin-path
This adds a path builtin to deal with paths.

It offers the following subcommands:

    filter to go through a list of paths and only print the ones that pass some filter - exist, are a directory, have read permission, ...
    is as a shortcut for filter -q to only return true if one of the paths passed the filter
    basename, dirname and extension to print certain parts of the path
    change-extension to change the extension to a different one (as a string operation)
    normalize and resolve to canonicalize the paths in various flavors
    sort to sort paths, also only using the basename or dirname as a key

The definition of "extension" here was carefully considered and should line up with how extensions are actually used - ~/.bashrc doesn't have an extension, but ~/.conf.d does (".d").

These subcommands all compose well - they can read from arguments or stdin (like string), they can use null-delimited input or output (input is autodetected - if a NULL happens in the first PATH_MAX bytes it switches automatically).

It is both a failglob exception (so like set if a glob passed to it fails it just doesn't get any arguments for it instead of triggering an error), and passes output to command substitution buffers explicitly split (like string split0) so newlines are easy to handle.
2022-05-29 20:15:03 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
67b0860fe7 Rename sort --invert to sort --reverse/-r
To match sort(1).
2022-05-29 17:53:03 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
c87d063211 Update docs 2022-05-29 17:48:40 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
00949fccda Rename --what to --key
More sorty, less generic.
2022-05-29 17:48:40 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
e87ad48f9b Test and document symlink loop 2022-05-29 17:48:40 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
b6ebf15c75 Refer to asci 0x00 as "NUL"
it is the american standard code for information, after all
2022-05-29 17:48:40 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
e5858522e3 Document ./- more. 2022-05-29 17:48:12 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
bc3d3de30a Also prepend "./" for filter if a filename starts with "-"
This is now added to the two commands that definitely deal with
relative paths.

It doesn't work for e.g. `path basename`, because after removing the
dirname prepending a "./" doesn't refer to the same file, and the
basename is also expected to not contain any slashes.
2022-05-29 17:48:12 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
c88f648cdf Add sort --unique 2022-05-29 17:48:12 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
54778f65f8 Some sort docs 2022-05-29 17:48:12 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
b961afed49 normalize: Add "./" if a path starts with a "-" 2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
bb3700997c Correct docs for normalize/resolve
Resolve absolutizes, normalize doesn't
2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
83a993a28e Remove references to match/expand in the docs 2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
2b8bb5bd7f path: Rename "real" to "resolve" 2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
5844164feb document real change 2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
4fced3ef5a Remove sticky filter
This isn't super useful, and having a caveat in the docs that it might
cause the entire filter to fail is awkward.

So just remove it.
2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
972ed61266 path: Docs work 2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
1c1e643218 WIP path: Make extensions start at the "."
This includes the "." in what `path extension` prints.

This allows distinguishing between an empty extension (just `.`) and a
non-existent extension (no `.` at all).
2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
d991096cb4 Add some more links in the docs 2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
ce7281905d Switch strip-extension to change-extension
This allows replacing the extension, e.g.

    > path change-extension mp4 foo.wmv
    foo.mp4
2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
00ed0bfb5d Rename base/dir to basename/dirname
"dir" sounds like it asks "is it a directory".
2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
fbfad686aa Another pass over the docs 2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
9f174d3a62 Moar on the docs 2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
d0e8eb1700 docs: Replace the general options recantation with "GENERAL_OPTIONS"
I'm not sure if this is the actual proper syntax to describe this, but
it sure is a heck of a lot more readable.
2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
efb3ae6d49 Add path is shorthand for path filter -q
This replaces `test -e` and such.
2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
b23548b2a6 Add "-rwx" and "-fdl" shorthand
These are short flags for "--perm=read" and "--type=link" and such.

Not every type or permission has a shorthand - we don't want "-s" for
"suid". So just the big three each get one.
2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
48ac2ea1e0 Address feedback 2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
bcf6f8572f Another pass over the docs 2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
0ff25d581c Infer splitting on NULL if one appears in the first PATH_MAX bytes
This is theoretically sound, because a path can only be PATH_MAX - 1
bytes long, so at least the PATH_MAXest byte needs to be a NULL.

The one case this could break is when something has a NULL-output mode
but doesn't bother printing the NULL for only one path, and that path
contains a newline. So we leave --null-in there, to force it on.
2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
7b6c2cb8dd Apply suggestions from code review
Co-authored-by: Johannes Altmanninger <aclopte@gmail.com>
2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
3a9c52cefa Add --invert to filter/match
Like `grep -v`/`string match -v`.
2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
f6fb347d98 Add "path" builtin
This adds a "path" builtin that can handle paths.

Implemented so far:

- "path filter PATHS", filters paths according to existence and optionally type and permissions
- "path base" and "path dir", run basename and dirname, respectively
- "path extension PATHS", prints the extension, if any
- "path strip-extension", prints the path without the extension
- "path normalize PATHS", normalizes paths - removing "/./" components
- and such.
- "path real", does realpath - i.e. normalizing *and* link resolution.

Some of these - base, dir, {strip-,}extension and normalize operate on the paths only as strings, so they handle nonexistent paths. filter and real ignore any nonexistent paths.

All output is split explicitly, so paths with newlines in them are
handled correctly. Alternatively, all subcommands have a "--null-input"/"-z" and "--null-output"/"-Z" option to handle null-terminated input and create null-terminated output. So

    find . -print0 | path base -z

prints the basename of all files in the current directory,
recursively.

With "-Z" it also prints it null-separated.

(if stdout is going to a command substitution, we probably want to
skip this)

All subcommands also have a "-q"/"--quiet" flag that tells them to skip output. They return true "when something happened". For match/filter that's when a file passed, for "base"/"dir"/"extension"/"strip-extension" that's when something about the path *changed*.

Filtering
---------

`filter` supports all the file*types* `test` has - "dir", "file", "link", "block"..., as well as the permissions - "read", "write", "exec" and things like "suid".

It is missing the tty check and the check for the file being non-empty. The former is best done via `isatty`, the latter I don't think I've ever seen used.

There currently is no way to only get "real" files, i.e. ignore links pointing to files.

Examples
--------

> path real /bin///sh
/usr/bin/bash

> path extension foo.mp4
mp4

> path extension ~/.config
  (nothing, because ".config" isn't an extension.)
2022-05-29 17:48:11 +02:00
ridiculousfish
cf2ca56e34 Allow trapping SIGINT and SIGTERM in scripts
This teaches `--on-signal SIGINT` (and by extension `trap cmd SIGINT`)
to work properly in scripts, not just interactively. Note any such
function will suppress the default behavior of exiting. Do this for
SIGTERM as well.
2022-05-28 17:44:13 -07:00
Fabian Homborg
8bfc987705 docs/math: Some simple changes 2022-05-14 10:59:41 +02:00
Henrik Hørlück Berg
c5a6dce27a Docs: be more consistent about argument formatting 2022-05-14 10:05:02 +02:00
Henrik Hørlück Berg
255bfffed7 Fix more lost string documentation
- Errors from 14d60ccb32
- See: #8928
2022-05-14 10:05:02 +02:00
Henrik Hørlück Berg
837c446dc6 Document string split --fields
- The parameter-listing appears to have been lost as a part of
  14d60ccb32
2022-05-02 17:46:18 +02:00
exploide
a18be7b844 docs: removed enumeration item from echo docs 2022-04-22 20:16:14 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
2c702de52c Put funcsave long option back
This reverts ed8c78c0ea, emphatically.

Fixes #8830
2022-03-24 20:11:39 +01:00
David Adam
8c4c526698 ulimit: add new limits from FreeBSD/NetBSD
Short option names are taken from sh for those platforms where possible.
2022-03-24 10:23:04 +08:00
David Adam
2c2b87af07 ulimit: add new limits from Linux
Short options are taken from prlimit(1) where appropriate.

Closes #8786.
2022-03-24 10:23:04 +08:00
David Adam
ee69a2467e ulimit: some corrections to descriptions and documentation 2022-03-24 10:23:04 +08:00
ys64
c92cda9bec Is this a typo?
I copied the code, and gave me the following error:

Missing end to balance this function definition
2022-03-23 15:04:25 +01:00
joao-vitor-sr
4ae4ea0169
New -n flag for string join. (#8774)
* 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.
2022-03-13 11:47:33 +01:00
Andrey Mishchenko
59e50f77bc
Allow underscores as separators in the math builtin (#8611)
* 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
2022-03-13 11:23:35 +01:00
David Adam
4bc6b36bed string docs: format options and arguments in line with other pages
There are a number of items which don't fit cleanly into the styles used in the
synopses, and have been left alone.
2022-03-12 22:22:02 +08:00
David Adam
3a23fdf359 docs: omnibus cleanup
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.
2022-03-12 00:21:13 +08:00
David Adam
e23e52a8e9 docs: standardise on definition lists for options
Harmonizes the option listing including formatting in a similar manner to the
synopsis of each entry.
2022-03-12 00:21:12 +08:00
Martin Pool
c0be74c55a Better documentation of forward-char and friends
This makes it match the code in reader.cpp, and explains why the default
binding of `right` accepts the complete line.

Closes #8748
2022-03-02 21:18:29 +01:00
Nadav Zingerman
9e0f74eb6c Add --escape option to complete -C
An example use case is an external completion pager:

    bind \cg "commandline -rt (complete -C --escape|fzf|cut -d\t -f1)\ "

Fixes #3469
2022-02-09 08:34:03 +01:00
Johannes Altmanninger
2a98b7a593 docs synopsis: make all placeholder arguments uppercase
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.
2022-01-19 22:56:41 +08:00
Johannes Altmanninger
c0d1e41313 docs synopsis: add HTML highlighing and automate manpage markup
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
2022-01-19 22:56:41 +08:00
Johannes Altmanninger
7aa0f4a2cf test.rst: fix runaway space 2022-01-16 14:06:40 +01:00
Johannes Altmanninger
97db9d5c38 docs synopses: fix alignment of continuation lines
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.
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Johannes Altmanninger
18467457c6 docs synopses: do not add markup to the ellipsis character
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.
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Johannes Altmanninger
78101364c3 docs synopses: remove unconventional spaces inside [] and ()
We usually write "[a | b]", not "[ a | b ]".
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Johannes Altmanninger
ad4530acd3 docs synopses: add space before ellipsis
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.
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Johannes Altmanninger
be451091d4 docs synopses: use ellipsis with singular words
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.
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Johannes Altmanninger
f8e8c23ac3 docs synopses: use parenthesis to indicate that short/long option pairs take same args
Matches Git, see for example the -O option in git-grep(1).
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Johannes Altmanninger
4a4905aaa5 docs synopses: fix RST syntax 2022-01-16 14:05:47 +01:00
Johannes Altmanninger
adccd6e6f5 function.rst: remove ellipsis since there is no repetition
Alternatively we could say *COMMANDS*... or similar.
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Johannes Altmanninger
851512a7cc complete.rst: clarify in synopsis that -c/-p take an argument
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.
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Johannes Altmanninger
115615b831 psub.rst: add long option to synopsis 2022-01-16 14:05:47 +01:00
Johannes Altmanninger
d9287ec471 set.rst: fix synopsis glitch and make placeholder uppercase
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.
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Johannes Altmanninger
dd8351d1b4 history.rst: fix BNF syntax for orthogonal options
These can be used alone, or in combination, let's reflect that in
the synopsis.
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Johannes Altmanninger
a7f45b05b7 history.rst: fix wrong subcommand name and unconventional braces
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.
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Johannes Altmanninger
0d6bad9660 history.rst: don't mention the --show-time option for "history delete"
It's ignored.  We could support it in future (and maybe throw an
"unsupported" error until then).
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Johannes Altmanninger
19aebebb95 math.rst: remove stray mention of -- separator from synopsis
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 [...]
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Johannes Altmanninger
6df86c6c23 math.rst: use 4 spaces instead of a tab for indentation
I personally prefer tabs but we always use spaces, so this is much
less surprising.
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