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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
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string-pad - pad strings to a fixed width
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Synopsis
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--------
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.. BEGIN SYNOPSIS
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.. synopsis::
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string pad [-r | --right] [(-c | --char) CHAR] [(-w | --width) INTEGER]
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[STRING ...]
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.. END SYNOPSIS
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Description
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-----------
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.. BEGIN DESCRIPTION
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``string pad`` extends each STRING to the given visible width by adding CHAR to the left. That means the width of all visible characters added together, excluding escape sequences and accounting for $fish_emoji_width and $fish_ambiguous_width. It is the amount of columns in a terminal the STRING occupies.
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The escape sequences reflect what *fish* knows about, and how it computes its output. Your terminal might support more escapes, or not support escape sequences that fish knows about.
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If ``-r`` or ``--right`` is given, add the padding after a string.
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If ``-c`` or ``--char`` is given, pad with CHAR instead of whitespace.
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The output is padded to the maximum width of all input strings. If ``-w`` or ``--width`` is given, use at least that.
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.. END DESCRIPTION
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Examples
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.. BEGIN EXAMPLES
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::
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>_ string pad -w 10 abc abcdef
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abc
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abcdef
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>_ string pad --right --char=🐟 "fish are pretty" "rich. "
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fish are pretty
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rich. 🐟🐟🐟🐟
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>_ string pad -w$COLUMNS (date)
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# Prints the current time on the right edge of the screen.
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See Also
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- The :ref:`printf <cmd-printf>` command can do simple padding, for example ``printf %10s\n`` works like ``string pad -w10``.
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- :ref:`string length <cmd-string-length>` with the ``--visible`` option can be used to show what fish thinks the width is.
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.. END EXAMPLES
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