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Add individual documentation pages for string's subcommands This adds string-x.rst for each subcommand x of string. The main page (string.rst) is not changed, except that examples are shown directly after each subcommand. The subcommand sections in string.rst are created by textual inclusion of parts of the string-x.rst files. Subcommand man pages can be viewed with either of: ``` man string collect man string-collect string collect <press F1 or Alt-h> string collect -h ``` While `string -h ...` still prints the full help. Closes #5968
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string-escape - escape special characters
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Synopsis
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.. BEGIN SYNOPSIS
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
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.. synopsis::
string escape [-n | --no-quoted] [--style=] [STRING ...]
string unescape [--style=] [STRING ...]
Add individual documentation pages for string's subcommands This adds string-x.rst for each subcommand x of string. The main page (string.rst) is not changed, except that examples are shown directly after each subcommand. The subcommand sections in string.rst are created by textual inclusion of parts of the string-x.rst files. Subcommand man pages can be viewed with either of: ``` man string collect man string-collect string collect <press F1 or Alt-h> string collect -h ``` While `string -h ...` still prints the full help. Closes #5968
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.. END SYNOPSIS
Description
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.. BEGIN DESCRIPTION
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.
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``string escape`` escapes each *STRING* in one of three ways. The first is **--style=script**. This is the default. It alters the string such that it can be passed back to ``eval`` to produce the original argument again. By default, all special characters are escaped, and quotes are used to simplify the output when possible. If **-n** or **--no-quoted** is given, the simplifying quoted format is not used. Exit status: 0 if at least one string was escaped, or 1 otherwise.
Add individual documentation pages for string's subcommands This adds string-x.rst for each subcommand x of string. The main page (string.rst) is not changed, except that examples are shown directly after each subcommand. The subcommand sections in string.rst are created by textual inclusion of parts of the string-x.rst files. Subcommand man pages can be viewed with either of: ``` man string collect man string-collect string collect <press F1 or Alt-h> string collect -h ``` While `string -h ...` still prints the full help. Closes #5968
2019-10-27 09:56:24 +00:00
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.
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**--style=var** ensures the string can be used as a variable name by hex encoding any non-alphanumeric characters. The string is first converted to UTF-8 before being encoded.
Add individual documentation pages for string's subcommands This adds string-x.rst for each subcommand x of string. The main page (string.rst) is not changed, except that examples are shown directly after each subcommand. The subcommand sections in string.rst are created by textual inclusion of parts of the string-x.rst files. Subcommand man pages can be viewed with either of: ``` man string collect man string-collect string collect <press F1 or Alt-h> string collect -h ``` While `string -h ...` still prints the full help. Closes #5968
2019-10-27 09:56:24 +00:00
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 14:22:00 +00:00
**--style=url** ensures the string can be used as a URL by hex encoding any character which is not legal in a URL. The string is first converted to UTF-8 before being encoded.
Add individual documentation pages for string's subcommands This adds string-x.rst for each subcommand x of string. The main page (string.rst) is not changed, except that examples are shown directly after each subcommand. The subcommand sections in string.rst are created by textual inclusion of parts of the string-x.rst files. Subcommand man pages can be viewed with either of: ``` man string collect man string-collect string collect <press F1 or Alt-h> string collect -h ``` While `string -h ...` still prints the full help. Closes #5968
2019-10-27 09:56:24 +00:00
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 14:22:00 +00:00
**--style=regex** escapes an input string for literal matching within a regex expression. The string is first converted to UTF-8 before being encoded.
Add individual documentation pages for string's subcommands This adds string-x.rst for each subcommand x of string. The main page (string.rst) is not changed, except that examples are shown directly after each subcommand. The subcommand sections in string.rst are created by textual inclusion of parts of the string-x.rst files. Subcommand man pages can be viewed with either of: ``` man string collect man string-collect string collect <press F1 or Alt-h> string collect -h ``` While `string -h ...` still prints the full help. Closes #5968
2019-10-27 09:56:24 +00:00
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 14:22:00 +00:00
``string unescape`` performs the inverse of the ``string escape`` command. If the string to be unescaped is not properly formatted it is ignored. For example, doing ``string unescape --style=var (string escape --style=var $str)`` will return the original string. There is no support for unescaping **--style=regex**.
Add individual documentation pages for string's subcommands This adds string-x.rst for each subcommand x of string. The main page (string.rst) is not changed, except that examples are shown directly after each subcommand. The subcommand sections in string.rst are created by textual inclusion of parts of the string-x.rst files. Subcommand man pages can be viewed with either of: ``` man string collect man string-collect string collect <press F1 or Alt-h> string collect -h ``` While `string -h ...` still prints the full help. Closes #5968
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.. END DESCRIPTION
Examples
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.. BEGIN EXAMPLES
::
docs: Use \ instead of \\ in examples (#7286) Instead of informing the bell character (hex 07), the example was using an escaped \ followed by x07. $ echo \\x07 \x07 $ echo \x07 $ echo \x07 | od -a 0000000 bel nl 0000002 $ * docs: Use \u instead of \\u Instead of informing the Unicode character 慡, this example was using an escaped \ followed by u6161. $ echo \\u6161 \u6161 $ echo \u6161 慡 Before: $ string escape --style=var 'a1 b2'\\u6161 | string unescape --style=var a1 b2\u6161 Now: $ string escape --style=var 'a1 b2'\u6161 | string unescape --style=var a1 b2慡
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>_ echo \x07 | string escape
\cg
Add individual documentation pages for string's subcommands This adds string-x.rst for each subcommand x of string. The main page (string.rst) is not changed, except that examples are shown directly after each subcommand. The subcommand sections in string.rst are created by textual inclusion of parts of the string-x.rst files. Subcommand man pages can be viewed with either of: ``` man string collect man string-collect string collect <press F1 or Alt-h> string collect -h ``` While `string -h ...` still prints the full help. Closes #5968
2019-10-27 09:56:24 +00:00
docs: Use \ instead of \\ in examples (#7286) Instead of informing the bell character (hex 07), the example was using an escaped \ followed by x07. $ echo \\x07 \x07 $ echo \x07 $ echo \x07 | od -a 0000000 bel nl 0000002 $ * docs: Use \u instead of \\u Instead of informing the Unicode character 慡, this example was using an escaped \ followed by u6161. $ echo \\u6161 \u6161 $ echo \u6161 慡 Before: $ string escape --style=var 'a1 b2'\\u6161 | string unescape --style=var a1 b2\u6161 Now: $ string escape --style=var 'a1 b2'\u6161 | string unescape --style=var a1 b2慡
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>_ string escape --style=var 'a1 b2'\u6161
a1_20_b2_E6_85_A1_
Add individual documentation pages for string's subcommands This adds string-x.rst for each subcommand x of string. The main page (string.rst) is not changed, except that examples are shown directly after each subcommand. The subcommand sections in string.rst are created by textual inclusion of parts of the string-x.rst files. Subcommand man pages can be viewed with either of: ``` man string collect man string-collect string collect <press F1 or Alt-h> string collect -h ``` While `string -h ...` still prints the full help. Closes #5968
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.. END EXAMPLES
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