This makes it easier to get *any pager* in the number of places we do.
Unfortunately:
1. It can't just execute the pager because that might block
2. We can't really set the necessary options for less here
so they still need to be set outside.
This
Fixes#10074
by falling back to `cat` in that case. We could also decide to abort
instead of using a non-pager, but for history that's probably fine.
This is nroff/groff being broken. It turns "→" into "â". This is even if we select `-Tutf8` and friends.
So, if mandoc exists, we prefer that, and otherwise, run preconv on
the file first (if it exists).
Really, what we would need to to is tell nroff to pass `-KUTF-8` to
groff, but that doesn't appear to be possible.
The less -F / --quit-if-one-screen option is buggy before v530. To work
around this, pass --no-init less versions older than 530.
The --no-init option was previously passed; it was removed in d15a51897d
for mouse support. Unfortunately it looks like we can't have mouse
support and --quit-if-one-screen on macOS shipped less (version 487).
It's worth fixing this because otherwise history and help is just not
printed on stock macOS.
Relevant is https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/107315/less-quit-if-one-screen-without-no-initFixes#8157.
Commit d15a51897 ("Rationalize $LESS uses") switched a "less" flag
from -r (interpret all control characters)
to -R (interpret only color codes)
Somehow this changed the output of "fish -c 'command -h'" to include
weird characters:
DESCRIPTION^O
command^O forces the shell to execute the program COMMANDNAME^O and ignore any functions or builtins with the same name.
Probably this was the reason why I originally used -r over -R. Anyway,
-R is safer and it looks like we can just remove the "ul" preprocessing
since "less" will interpret bold/underline just fine.
Stop using "--no-init"/"-X" because we have no actual reason to and it
may break mouse initialization on my best friend macOS.
Use --RAW-CONTROL-CHARS, the capital version that only lets through
specific escape sequences, not *everything* - we shouldn't have
anything weird here, but less heavily discourages the other version.
Allow a user's $LESS to override.
Fixes#7997.
Prior to this commit "builtin -h" would silently fail when no
documentation is installed. This happens when running fish without
installing it, or when the docs are not installed.
See #7824
"function --argument" is not a thing, it's "--argument-names". This only
accidentally works because our getopt is awful and allows abbreviated
long options.
Similarly, one argparse test used "--d" instead of "-d" or "--def".
Every builtin or function shipped with fish supports flag -h or --help to
print a slightly condensed version of its manpage.
Some of those help messages are longer than a typical screen;
this commit pipes the help to a pager to make it easier to read.
As in other places in fish we assume that either $PAGER or "less" is a
valid pager and use that.
In three places (error messages for bg, break and continue) the help is
printed to stderr instead of stdout. To make sure the error message is
visible in the pager, we pass it to builtin_print_help, every call of which
needs to be updated.
Fixes#6227
This runs build_tools/style.fish, which runs clang-format on C++, fish_indent on fish and (new) black on python.
If anything is wrong with the formatting, we should fix the tools, but automated formatting is worth it.
Using bare vars is more efficient because it makes the builtin `math`
expression cache more useful. That's because if you prefix each var with
a dollar-sign then the fish parser expands it before `math` is run.
Something like `math x + 1` can be cached since the expression is the
same each time it is run. But if you do `math $x + 1` and x==1 then you're
effectively executing `math 1 + 1`. And if x==2 the next time then you're
running `math 2 + 1`. Which makes the expression cache much less effective.
This augments the previous change for issue #3346 by adding an error
message when an invalid integer is seen. This change is likely to be
controversial so I'm not going to squash it into the previous change.
It seems that `ul` can't handle the escape sequences for bold text that `nroff` generates on my system. Fixed by either removing `| ul`, or adding `-c` to the `nroff` command.
Needs testing for old (OSX?) versions of nroff.
The terminal width magic that __fish_print_help learned doesn't help
when builtin_print_help runs it in a subshell. Instead, add an
undocumented --tty-width flag to __fish_print_help that's used to pass
the terminal width.
As a result of this rewrite, the output now:
* Expands to fit the terminal width, like `man` does
* Preprocesses the manpage with `tbl` just in case, since `man` does
this, even though I doubt any fish manpages use `tbl` formatting.
* Handle bold/underline with the `ul` command as it was designed for
instead of trying to fake it with `sed`.
* Compresses blank lines as `man` does with the default `less -is`
pager.
