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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-split - split strings by delimiter
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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::
Docs: be more consistent about argument formatting
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string split [(-f | --fields) FIELDS] [(-m | --max) MAX] [-n | --no-empty]
Document `string split --fields` - The parameter-listing appears to have been lost as a part of https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/commit/14d60ccb328fbff47408e914eb8cb27e887669b8
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[-q | --quiet] [-r | --right] SEP [STRING ...]
Docs: be more consistent about argument formatting
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string split0 [(-f | --fields) FIELDS] [(-m | --max) MAX] [-n | --no-empty]
Document `string split --fields` - The parameter-listing appears to have been lost as a part of https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/commit/14d60ccb328fbff47408e914eb8cb27e887669b8
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[-q | --quiet] [-r | --right] [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 split`` splits each *STRING* on the separator *SEP*, which can be an empty string. If **-m** or **--max** is specified, at most MAX splits are done on each *STRING*. If **-r** or **--right** is given, splitting is performed right-to-left. This is useful in combination with **-m** or **--max**. With **-n** or **--no-empty**, empty results are excluded from consideration (e.g. ``hello\n\nworld`` would expand to two strings and not three). Exit status: 0 if at least one split was performed, or 1 otherwise.
string split: update docs
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Document `string split --fields` - The parameter-listing appears to have been lost as a part of https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/commit/14d60ccb328fbff47408e914eb8cb27e887669b8
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Use **-f** or **--fields** to print out specific fields. FIELDS is a comma-separated string of field numbers and/or spans. Each field is one-indexed, and will be printed on separate lines. If a given field does not exist, then the command exits with status 1 and does not print anything, unless **--allow-empty** is used.
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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docs: Use :doc: role when linking to commands This makes it so we link to the very top of the document instead of a special anchor we manually include. So clicking e.g. :doc:`string <cmds/string>` will link you to cmds/string.html instead of cmds/string.html#cmd-string. I would love to have a way to say "this document from the root of the document path", but that doesn't appear to work, I tried `/cmds/string`. So we'll just have to use cmds/string in normal documents and plain `string` from other commands.
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See also the **--delimiter** option of the :doc:`read <read>` command.
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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``string split0`` splits each *STRING* on the zero byte (NUL). Options are the same as ``string split`` except that no separator is given.
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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``split0`` has the important property that its output is not further split when used in a command substitution, allowing for the command substitution to produce elements containing newlines. This is most useful when used with Unix tools that produce zero bytes, such as ``find -print0`` or ``sort -z``. See split0 examples below.
.. END DESCRIPTION
Examples
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.. BEGIN EXAMPLES
::
>_ string split . example.com
example
com
>_ string split -r -m1 / /usr/local/bin/fish
/usr/local/bin
fish
>_ string split '' abc
a
b
c
Document `string split --fields` - The parameter-listing appears to have been lost as a part of https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/commit/14d60ccb328fbff47408e914eb8cb27e887669b8
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>_ string split --allow-empty -f1,3-4,5 '' abcd
Add `string split --fields`
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a
c
Document `string split --fields` - The parameter-listing appears to have been lost as a part of https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/commit/14d60ccb328fbff47408e914eb8cb27e887669b8
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d
Add `string split --fields`
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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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NUL Delimited Examples
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
::
>_ # Count files in a directory, without being confused by newlines.
>_ count (find . -print0 | string split0)
42
>_ # Sort a list of elements which may contain newlines
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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>_ set foo beta alpha\ngamma
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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>_ set foo (string join0 $foo | sort -z | string split0)
>_ string escape $foo[1]
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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alpha\ngamma
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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