Ensure that the increment= param is set via keyword, not via positional arg.
This mistake was masking a bug where the "^a b c" match was not being tested,
because it was being set as the value for increment!
This switches the 'increment' param from "after" to "before." Instead
of expect_prompt saying if the next prompt will be incremented, each
call site says if it should have been incremented sinec the last prompt.
With a commandline like
```
a b c d
```
and the cursor at the beginning, this would eat "a b", which isn't a
sensible bigword.
Bigword should be "a word, with optional leading whitespace".
This was caused by an overly zealous state-machine that always ate one
char and only *then* started eating leading whitespace.
Instead eat *a character*, and if it was whitespace go on eating
whitespace, and if it was a printable go straight to only eating
printables.
Fixes#7325.
Prior to this change, if we saw more than one repaint readline command in
a row, we would try to ignore the second one. However this was never the
right thing to do since sometimes we really do need to repaint twice in a
row (e.g. the user hits Ctrl+L twice). Previously we were saved by the
buginess of this mechanism but with the repainting refactoring we see
missing redraws.
Remove the coalescing logic and add a test. Fixes#7280.
Make it easier to use pexpect and to understand its error messages.
Switch to a style in tests using bound methods, which makes them
less noisy to write.
This adds a new interactive test framework based on Python's pexpect. This
is intended to supplant the TCL expect-based tests.
New tests go in `tests/pexpects/`. As a proof-of-concept, the
pipeline.expect test and the (gnarly) bind.expect test are ported to the
new framework.
