That `find` example is a bit dated and awkward, and doesn't really fit
the section.
We also don't want to point people to `?` because we want to remove it.
support for ping from iputils (version 20210202)
support for ping from inetutils (version 2.1)
support for ping from busybox (version 1.33.1)
support for ping from FreeBSD and macOS (by @juntuu)
Because we are, ultimately, interested in how many cells a string
occupies, we *have* to handle carriage return (`\r`) and line
feed (`\n`).
A carriage return sets the current tally to 0, and only the longest
tally is kept. The idea here is that the last position is the same as
the last position of the longest string. So:
abcdef\r123
ends up looking like
123def
which is the same width as abcdef, 6.
A line feed meanwhile means we flush the current tally and start a new
one. Every line is printed separately, even if it's given as one.
That's because, well, counting the width over multiple lines
doesn't *help*.
As a sidenote: This is necessarily imperfect, because, while we may
know the width of the terminal ($COLUMNS), we don't know the current
cursor position. So we can only give the width, and the user can then
figure something out on their own.
But for the common case of figuring out how wide the prompt is, this
should do.
Without escapes.
The new option is a bit cheesy, but "width" isn't as expressive and
requires an argument.
Maybe we want "pad" to also require --visible?
* Add `set --function`
This makes the function's scope available, even inside of blocks. Outside of blocks it's the toplevel local scope.
This removes the need to declare variables locally before use, and will probably end up being the main way variables get set.
E.g.:
```fish
set -l thing
if condition
set thing one
else
set thing two
end
```
could be written as
```fish
if condition
set -f thing one
else
set -f thing two
end
```
Note: Many scripts shipped with fish use workarounds like `and`/`or`
instead of `if`, so it isn't easy to find good examples.
Also, if there isn't an else-branch in that above, just with
```fish
if condition
set -f thing one
end
```
that means something different from setting it before! Now, if
`condition` isn't true, it would use a global (or universal) variable of
te same name!
Some more interesting parts:
Because it *is* a local scope, setting a variable `-f` and
`-l` in the toplevel of a function ends up the same:
```fish
function foo2
set -l foo bar
set -f foo baz # modifies the *same* variable!
end
```
but setting it locally inside a block creates a new local variable
that shadows the function-scoped variable:
```fish
function foo3
set -f foo bar
begin
set -l foo banana
# $foo is banana
end
# $foo is bar again
end
```
This is how local variables already work. "Local" is actually "block-scoped".
Also `set --show` will only show the closest local scope, so it won't
show a shadowed function-level variable. Again, this is how local
variables already work, and could be done as a separate change.
As a fun tidbit, functions with --no-scope-shadowing can now use this to set variables in the calling function. That's probably okay given that it's already an escape hatch (but to be clear: if it turns out to problematic I reserve the right to remove it).
Fixes#565
Fixes some regressions from 35ca42413 ("Simplify some parse_util functions").
The tmux tests are not beautiful but I find them easy to write.
Probably a pexpect test would also be enough here?
The names in the implementation differed from those in the header, but
the header names were definitely better (because they correlated across
function calls).
For some reason I've seen one version of firefox use this over the one
we set in pydoctheme.css. Since we set it there in both light and dark
mode, this one should not be used.
This doesn't work.
The real thing that tells if something is read-only is
electric_var_t::readonly().
This wasn't used, and we provide no way to make a variable read-only,
which makes this an unnecessary footgun.
for PWD in foo; true; end
prints:
>..src/parse_execution.cpp:461: end_execution_reason_t parse_execution_context_t::run_for_statement(const ast::for_header_t&, const ast::job_list_t&): Assertion `retval == ENV_OK' failed.
because this used the wrong way to see if something is read-only.
env_var_t::read_only() is basically broken.
It doesn't work for $PWD, as best as I can tell no variable is
read-only except for a hardcoded list of some of the electric ones.
So we should probably remove the entire read_only and
setting_read_only mechanism.
This allows us to test that `test` takes numbers with decimal point even in comma-using locales,
to stop those pesky americans from breaking everything again.
(and yes, we use french to keep myself honest)
This breaks in comma-using locales (like my own de_DE.UTF-8), because
it still uses the locale-dependent strtod, which will then refuse to
read
1234.567
Using strtod_l (not in POSIX, I think?) might help, but might also be
a lot slower. Let's revert this for now and figure out if that is
workable.
This reverts commit fba86fb821.
fish_wcstod had a "fast path" which looked for all digits, otherwise
falling back to wcstod_l. However we now pass the C locale to wcstod_l,
so it is safe to extend the fast path to all ASCII characters.
In practice math parsing would pass strings here like "123 + 456" and
the space and + were knocking us off the fast path. benchmarks/math.fish
goes from 2.3 to 1.4 seconds with this change.
