This allows us to stop descending into untracked directories, which
can be faster.
It's still not *good* - git can still be quite slow here, but if
there's an untracked directory you probably don't care about the
number of files in that.
Fixes#7871.
This is all of the sections in interactive, language and for_bash_users.
The faq names are so long that we're not adding them, also not all of
these have descriptions yet.
* math: Make function parentheses optional
It's a bit annoying to use parentheses here because that requires
quoting or escaping.
This allows the parens to be omitted, so
math sin pi
is the same as
math 'sin(pi)'
Function calls have the lowest precedence, so
math sin 2 + 6
is the same as
math 'sin(2 + 6)'
* Add more tests
* Add a note to the docs
* even moar docs
Moar docca
* moar tests
Call me Nikola Testla
Given that we no longer have that massive "index" page with
everything, it's become harder to open the correct section
immediately.
So this hardcodes the section titles for each page in help itself.
This was half-automated with
grep -o 'a class="headerlink" href="#[^"]*"' /usr/share/doc/fish/faq.html | sort -u | string replace -r '.*#' '' | string trim -c '"'
The completions still need to be adjusted.
The bell is a mechanism for important notifications. Not having things
to do in response to a keypress isn't important enough, especially
because we're already flashing and the bell might actually be a bell.
Fixes#7875.
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.
When building the document with Sphinx, the following warning is displayed, so add end-string.
"../CHANGELOG.rst:29: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string."
In preparation for concurrent execution, introduce a
`get_performer_for_builtin` function. This function itself returns a
function, which when called will run the builtin. The idea is that the
function may be called on a background thread (but not in this commit).
Several functions including wgetopt and execve operate on null-terminated
arrays of nul-terminated pointers: a list of pointers to C strings where
the last pointer is null. Prior to this change, each process_t stored its
argv in such an array. This had two problems:
1. It was awkward to work with this type, instead of using std::vector,
etc.
2. The process's arguments would be rearranged by builtins which is
surprising
Our null terminated arrays were built around a fancy type that would copy
input strings and also generate an array of pointers to them, in one big
allocation.
Switch to a new model where we construct an array of pointers over
existing strings. So you can supply a `vector<string>` and now
`null_terminated_array_t` will just make a list of pointers to them. Now
processes can just store their argv in a familiar wcstring_list_t.
Prior to this change, builtins would take their arguments as `wchar_t **`.
This implies that the order of the arguments may be changed (which is
true, `wgetopter` does so) but also that the strings themselves may be
changed, which no builtin should do.
Switch them all to take `const wchar_t **` instead: now the arguments may
be rearranged but their contents may no longer be modified.
This cleans up builtin_set a bit, with the meat of the change being
reworking `parse_index` into `split_var_and_indexes`.
`parse_index` was a function that split a string like `foo[1 3..5]` into
its variable name `foo` and the indexes (here `1 3 4 5`). It had a funny
interface where it would modify a C string in-place. Switch it to return a
`split_var_t` which is a little struct wrapping up the split operation.
This simplifies memory management, and also avoids modifying the arguments
to the builtin.
Previously iothread_perform could do something on a background thread, and
then do something on the main thread. But we no longer use that second
part: instead everything goes through debounce. Remove the completion
parameter from iothread_perform.
In vim p means paste *after* current character, so go forward a char before pasting.
Also in vim, P means paste *at* current position (like at '|' with cursor = line),
so there's no need to go back a char, just paste it without moving.
This fixes the following problem: if a command is entered while the
previous command is still executing, fish will see it all at once and
execute it before syntax highlighting as a chance to start. So the
command will appear wrong on the terminal. Fix this by detecting this
case and performing a fast no-io highlight.
An example of how to reproduce this:
run `sleep 3` and then type `echo foo` while the sleep is still running.
- Check for special characters *before* attempting to parse
- Also ignore lines with `{` and `*`
- Also skip lines with `<<` because that might be a heredoc (or a
- `<<<` herestring)
Fixes#7874.
This cleans up some exit code processing. Previously a failed exec
would produce exit code 125 unconditionally, while a failed posix_spawn
would produce exit code 1 (!).
With this change, fish reports exit code 126 for not-executable, and 127
for file-not-found. This matches bash.
This change modifies the fish safety check surrounding execve / spawn so
it can run shell scripts having concatenated binary content. We're using
the same safety check as FreeBSD /bin/sh [1] and the Z-shell [5]. POSIX
was recently revised to require this behavior:
"The input file may be of any type, but the initial portion of the
file intended to be parsed according to the shell grammar (XREF to
XSH 2.10.2 Shell Grammar Rules) shall consist of characters and
shall not contain the NUL character. The shell shall not enforce
any line length limits."
"Earlier versions of this standard required that input files to the
shell be text files except that line lengths were unlimited.
However, that was overly restrictive in relation to the fact that
shells can parse a script without a trailing newline, and in
relation to a common practice of concatenating a shell script
ending with an 'exit' or 'exec $command' with a binary data payload
to form a single-file self-extracting archive." [2] [3]
One example use case of such scripts, is the Cosmopolitan C Library [4]
which configuse the GNU Linker to output a polyglot shell+binary format
that runs on Linux / Mac / Windows / FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD / BIOS.
Fixesjart/cosmopolitan#88
[1] 9a1cd36331
[2] http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1250
[3] http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1226#c4394
[4] https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/index.html
[5] 326d9c203b
cd: Just try to cd without checking first
Some filesystems are broken and error out on `stat(3)` of existing and
cd-able directories.
So we just try to `fchdir` and report errors later.
Fixes#7577.
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.
We have no idea why this was even a thing. For now simply set it to
"all"/"full" (why these two names? no idea) at startup and allow
changing it later.
Settting it *immediately* when defining the variable sets it too soon
because we don't have the interactive signal handlers
enabled (including the one for SIGTTOU), so let's first settle for
this little piece of awkwardness.
This needs widespread testing, so we merge it early, immediately after
the release.
Fixes#5036Fixes#5832Fixes#7721
(and probably numerous others)
Unlike links, these are checked by sphinx and it complains if they
don't match.
Also they have a better chance of doing something useful in outputs
other than html.
We const cast these, so they aren't actually const,
and const doesn't actually help with optimization or anything (because const_cast exists),
so I would rather remove this, because const_cast gives me both the heebies and the jeebies.
