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Fix aliases with whitespace

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And document how that stuff works.

Fixes #2220

Also, the string stuff is cool.
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Fabian Homborg 2015-09-23 13:28:32 +02:00
parent 6f92781992
commit 54d1d98e39
2 changed files with 67 additions and 66 deletions
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doc_src/alias.txt
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@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ alias NAME=DEFINITION
You cannot create an alias to a function with the same name.
Note that spaces need to be escaped in the call to alias just like in the commandline _even inside the quotes_.
\subsection alias-example Example
@ -31,4 +33,8 @@ alias rmi "rm -i"
function rmi
rm -i $argv
end
# This needs to have the spaces escaped or "Chrome.app..." will be seen as an argument to "/Applications/Google":
alias chrome='/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome banana'
\endfish

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share/functions/alias.fish
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@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
function alias --description "Legacy function for creating shellscript functions using an alias-like syntax"
if count $argv >/dev/null
function alias --description 'Legacy function for creating shellscript functions using an alias-like syntax'
if count $argv > /dev/null
switch $argv[1]
case -h --h --he --hel --help
__fish_print_help alias
@ -19,12 +17,7 @@ function alias --description "Legacy function for creating shellscript functions
echo "Fish implements aliases using functions. Use 'functions' builtin to see list of functions and 'functions function_name' to see function definition, type 'help alias' for more information."
return 1
case 1
# Some seds (e.g. on Mac OS X), don't support \n in the RHS
# Use a literal newline instead
# http://sed.sourceforge.net/sedfaq4.html#s4.1
# The extra '' at the end is so $tmp[2] is guaranteed to work
set -l tmp (echo $argv|sed -e 's/\([^=]\{0,1\}\)=/\1\
/') ''
set -l tmp (string replace -r "=" '\n' -- $argv) ""
set name $tmp[1]
set body $tmp[2]
@ -47,12 +40,14 @@ function alias --description "Legacy function for creating shellscript functions
end
# Extract the first command from the body
switch $body
case \*\ \* \*\t\*
# note: strip leading spaces if present
set first_word (echo $body|sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]\{1,\}//;s/[[:space:]].*//;q')
case '*'
set first_word $body
# This is supposed to replace all non-escaped (i.e. preceded by an odd number of `\`) spaces with a newline
# so it splits on them
set -l tmp (string replace -ra "([^\\\ ])((\\\\\\\)*) " '$1\n' $body)
set first_word (string trim $tmp[1])
if set -q tmp[2]
set body $tmp[2..-1]
else
set body
end
# Prevent the alias from immediately running into an infinite recursion if
@ -65,6 +60,6 @@ function alias --description "Legacy function for creating shellscript functions
set prefix command
end
end
eval "function $name --wraps $first_word; $prefix $body \$argv; end"
eval "function $name --wraps $first_word; $prefix $first_word $body \$argv; end"
end