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Fabian Homborg
1e13c60059 docs: Link relevant language sections from the tutorial
This allows us to keep the tutorial more focussed and leave the more
in-depth information in the "language" part of the documentation.
2021-05-03 18:15:24 +02:00
Karolina Gontarek
9d66ddc840 Rename variable to fish_killring 2021-04-21 16:39:29 -07:00
Karolina Gontarek
da97daa800 Add variable to Special variables section 2021-04-21 16:39:29 -07:00
Josh Leichtung
f99127a158 Fix spelling of wheel in Wildcards docs 2021-04-18 07:47:52 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
d9b212f60b docs: Move some more sections from index to language
These aren't a 100% *exact* fit, but they're mostly language features.
2021-04-16 18:06:33 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
8bc7a85a69 docs: Remove #anchor links
Fixes at least one broken link to syntax
2021-04-16 18:06:33 +02:00
David Adam
9db846a5a7 docs: some improvements to the notes on key bindings
Includes acknowledgement that these are not full editors. Closes #4023.
2021-04-14 21:43:14 +08:00
Fabian Homborg
e1d19cf571 Don't touch $SHLVL if not interactive
It's not super clear what $SHLVL is useful for, but the current
definition is essentially
"number of shells in the parent processes + 1"

which isn't *super useful*?

Bash's behavior here is a bit weird in that it increments $SHLVL
basically always, but since it auto-execs the last process it will
decrement it again, so in practice it's often not incremented.

E.g.

```
> echo $SHLVL
1
> bash -c 'echo $SHLVL; bash'
2
>> echo $SHLVL
2
```

Both bashes here end up having the same $SHLVL because this is
equivalent to `echo $SHLVL; exec bash`. Running `echo $SHLVL` and then
`bash -c 'echo $SHLVL'` in an interactive bash will have a different
result (1 and 2) because that doesn't *exec* the inner bash.

That's not something we want to get into, so what we do is increment
$SHLVL in every interactive fish. Non-interactive fish will simply
import the existing value.

That means if you had e.g. a bash that runs a fish script that ends up
opening a new fish session, you would have a $SHLVL of *2* - one for the
bash, and one for the inner fish.

We key this off is_interactive_session() (which can also be enabled
via `fish -i`) because it's easy and because `fish -i` is asking for
fish to be, in some form, "interactive".

That means most of the time $SHLVL will be "how many shells am I deep,
how often do I have to `exit`", except for when you specifically asked
for a fish to be "interactive". If that's a problem, we can rethink it.

Fixes #7864.
2021-03-29 17:44:13 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
e7abb52526 Remove special "default" value for $fish_history
This is really of very little use and makes checking $fish_history
harder because it makes two values mean the same thing.

Fixes #7650
2021-03-28 12:09:58 +02:00
Fabian Homborg
93eaa61294 Split up documentation
This breaks apart the massive "index" document into

1. An "index" document that explains how to install and set up fish
and links to the other documents
2. A "fish-language" document that describes the syntax and semantics
of the language
3. A "fish-interactive" document that describes how to use fish
interactively

No change to the content has been made, only the parts have been moved
from index and some of the formatting (links and header levels) were
fixed.

See #7348.
2021-03-27 15:44:17 +01:00