Unlike other builtins, "{" is a separate token, not a keyword-string
token.
Allow the left brace token as command string; produce it when parsing
"{ -h"/"{ --help" (and nowhere else). By using a decorated statement,
we reuse logic for redirections etc.
Other syntax elements like "and" are in the builtin list, which
- adds highlighting logic
- adds it to "builtin --names"
- makes it runnable as builtin
(e.g. "builtin '{'" would hypothetically print the man page)
These don't seem very important (highlighting for '{' needs to match
'}' anyway).
Additionally, making it a real builtin would mean that we'd need to
deactivate a few places that unescape "{" to BRACE_BEGIN.
Let's not add it to the built in list. Instead, simply synthesize
builtin_generic in the right spot.
I'm assuming we want "{ -h" to print help, but '"{" -h' to run an
external command, since the latter is historical behavior. This works
naturally with the above fake builtin approach which never tries to
unescape the left brace.
For compound commands we already have begin/end but
> it is long, which it is not convenient for the command line
> it is different than {} which shell users have been using for >50 years
The difference from {} can break muscle memory and add extra steps
when I'm trying to write simple commands that work in any shell.
Fix that by embracing the traditional style too.
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Since { and } have always been special syntax in fish, we can also
allow
{ }
{ echo }
which I find intuitive even without having used a shell that supports
this (like zsh. The downside is that this doesn't work in some other
shells. The upside is in aesthetics and convenience (this is for
interactive use). Not completely sure about this.
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This implementation adds a hack to the tokenizer: '{' is usually a
brace expansion. Make it compound command when in command position
(not something the tokenizer would normally know). We need to disable
this when parsing a freestanding argument lists (in "complete somecmd
-a "{true,false}"). It's not really clear what "read -t" should do.
For now, keep the existing behavior (don't parse compound statements).
Add another hack to increase backwards compatibility: parse something
like "{ foo }" as brace statement only if it has a space after
the opening brace. This style is less likely to be used for brace
expansion. Perhaps we can change this in future (I'll make a PR).
Use separate terminal token types for braces; we could make the
left brace an ordinary string token but since string tokens undergo
unescaping during expansion etc., every such place would need to know
whether it's dealing with a command or an argument. Certainly possible
but it seems simpler (especially for tab-completions) to strip braces
in the parser. We could change this.
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In future we could allow the following alternative syntax (which is
invalid today).
if true {
}
if true; {
}
Closes#10895Closes#10898
See the changelog additions for user-visible changes.
Since we enable/disable terminal protocols whenever we pass terminal ownership,
tests can no longer run in parallel on the same terminal.
For the same reason, readline shortcuts in the gdb REPL will not work anymore.
As a remedy, use gdbserver, or lobby for CSI u support in libreadline.
Add sleep to some tests, otherwise they fall (both in CI and locally).
There are two weird failures on FreeBSD remaining, disable them for now
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/10359/checks?check_run_id=23330096362
Design and implementation borrows heavily from Kakoune.
In future, we should try to implement more of the kitty progressive
enhancements.
Closes#10359
This makes two changes:
1. Remove the 'brace_text_start' idea. The idea of 'brace_text_start' was
to prevent emitting `BRACE_SPACE` at the beginning or end of an item. But
we later strip these off anyways, so there is no apparent benefit. If we
are not doing brace expansion, this prevented emitting whitespace at the
beginning or end of an item, leading to #6564.
2. When performing brace expansion, only stomp the space character with
`BRACE_SPACE`; do not stomp newlines and tabs. This is because the fix in
came from a newline or tab literal, then we would have effectively
replaced a newline or tab with a space, so this is important for #6564 as
well. Moreover, it is not easy to place a literal newline or tab inside a
brace expansion, and users who do probably do not mean for it to be
stripped, so I believe this is a good change in general.
Fixes#6564
