Add more descriptive error messages when trying to use variables in command names

darcs-hash:20060421142939-ac50b-d1809fa4687706b433d1d0a5e0a0c9d791de510f.gz

builtin.c

@@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@ static int builtin_function( wchar_t **argv )
 			{
 				event_t *e;
 
-				if( !wcsvarname( woptarg ) )
+				if( wcsvarname( woptarg ) )
 				{
 					sb_printf( sb_err,
 							   _( L"%ls: Invalid variable name '%ls'\n" ),
@@ -1145,7 +1145,7 @@ static int builtin_function( wchar_t **argv )
 					   argc-woptind );
 			res=1;
 		}
-		else if( !(is_binding?wcsbindingname( argv[woptind] ) : wcsvarname( argv[woptind] ) ))
+		else if( !(is_binding?wcsbindingname( argv[woptind] ) : !wcsvarname( argv[woptind] ) ))
 		{
 			sb_printf( sb_err,
 					   _( L"%ls: Illegal function name '%ls'\n" ),
@@ -2584,7 +2584,7 @@ static int builtin_for( wchar_t **argv )
 				   argv[0] );
 		builtin_print_help( argv[0], sb_err );
 	}
-	else if ( !wcsvarname(argv[1]) )
+	else if ( wcsvarname(argv[1]) )
 	{
 		sb_printf( sb_err,
 				   _( L"%ls: '%ls' is not a valid variable name\n" ),

common.c

@@ -400,17 +400,17 @@ wchar_t **strv2wcsv( const char **in )
 
 }
 
-int wcsvarname( wchar_t *str )
+wchar_t *wcsvarname( wchar_t *str )
 {
 	while( *str )
 	{
 		if( (!iswalnum(*str)) && (*str != L'_' ) )
 		{
-			return 0;
+			return str;
 		}
 		str++;
 	}
-	return 1;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 

common.h

@@ -138,7 +138,14 @@ wchar_t *wcsdupcat2( const wchar_t *a, ... );
    Test if the given string is a valid variable name
 */
 
-int wcsvarname( wchar_t *str );
+
+/**
+   Test if the given string is a valid variable name. 
+
+   \return null if this is a valid name, and a pointer to the first invalid character otherwise
+*/
+
+wchar_t *wcsvarname( wchar_t *str );
 
 
 /**

parser.c

@@ -1981,7 +1981,8 @@ static int parse_job( process_t *p,
 					else
 					{
 						int tmp;
-
+						wchar_t *cmd = (wchar_t *)al_get( args, 0 );
+						
 						/* 
 						   We couln't find the specified command.
 
@@ -1996,19 +1997,42 @@ static int parse_job( process_t *p,
 						   cause the job to silently not execute. We
 						   also print an error message.
 						*/
-						if( wcschr( (wchar_t *)al_get( args, 0 ), L'=' ) )
+						if( wcschr( cmd, L'=' ) )
 						{
 							debug( 0,
 								   COMMAND_ASSIGN_ERR_MSG,
 								   (wchar_t *)al_get( args, 0 ) );
-							
-
 						}
-						else
+						else if(cmd[0]==L'$')
+						{
+							wchar_t *val = env_get( cmd+1 );
+							if( val )
+							{
+								debug( 0,
+									   _(L"Variables may not be used as commands. Define a function like 'function %ls; %ls $argv; end' instead. For more information, see the help section for the function command by typing 'help function'." ),
+									   cmd+1,
+									   val,
+									   cmd );
+							}
+							else
+							{
+								debug( 0,
+									   _(L"Variables may not be used as commands. Define a function instead. For more information, see the help section for the function command by typing 'help function'." ),
+									   cmd );
+							}			
+						}
+						else if(wcschr( cmd, L'$' ))
 						{
+							debug( 0,
+								   _(L"Commands may not contain variables. Use the eval builtin instead, like 'eval %ls'. For more information, see the help section for the eval command by typing 'help eval'." ),
+								   cmd,
+								   cmd );
+						}
+						else
+						{			
 							debug( 0,
 								   _(L"Unknown command '%ls'"),
-								   (wchar_t *)al_get( args, 0 ) );
+								   cmd );
 						}
 						
 						tmp = current_tokenizer_pos;