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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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.. _cmd-random:
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random - generate random number
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Synopsis
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--------
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.. synopsis::
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random
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random SEED
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random START END
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random START STEP END
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random choice [ITEMS ...]
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Description
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-----------
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``random`` generates a pseudo-random integer from a uniform distribution. The
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range (inclusive) depends on the arguments.
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No arguments indicate a range of 0 to 32767 (inclusive).
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If one argument is specified, the internal engine will be seeded with the
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argument for future invocations of ``random`` and no output will be produced.
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Two arguments indicate a range from START to END (both START and END included).
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Three arguments indicate a range from START to END with a spacing of STEP
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between possible outputs.
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``random choice`` will select one random item from the succeeding arguments.
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Note that seeding the engine will NOT give the same result across different
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systems.
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You should not consider ``random`` cryptographically secure, or even
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statistically accurate.
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Example
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-------
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The following code will count down from a random even number between 10 and 20 to 1:
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::
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for i in (seq (random 10 2 20) -1 1)
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echo $i
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end
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And this will open a random picture from any of the subdirectories:
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::
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open (random choice **.jpg)
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Or, to only get even numbers from 2 to 20::
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random 2 2 20
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Or odd numbers from 1 to 3::
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random 1 2 3 # or 1 2 4
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