fish-shell/share/functions/fish_clipboard_paste.fish
Fabian Homborg 99e87dded3 Auto-escape pastes inside single-quotes
This is to make pasting literals easier.

When a user pastes something, we normally take it as-is.

The exception is when a single-quote is open, e.g. the current token
is

    foo'bar

When something is pasted here, we escape single-quotes (`'`) and
backslashes (`\\`), so typing a `'` after it will turn it into a
literal token.

Fixes #967.
2017-03-16 16:08:13 +01:00

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function fish_clipboard_paste
set -l data
if type -q pbpaste
set data (pbpaste)
else if type -q xsel
# Return if `xsel` failed.
# That way any xsel error is printed (to show e.g. a non-functioning X connection),
# but we don't print the redundant (and overly verbose for this) commandline error.
# Also require non-empty contents to not clear the buffer.
if not set data (xsel --clipboard)
return 1
end
end
# If the current token has an unmatched single-quote,
# escape all single-quotes (and backslashes) in the paste,
# in order to turn it into a single literal token.
#
# This eases pasting non-code (e.g. markdown or git commitishes).
if __fish_commandline_is_singlequoted
set data (string replace -ra "(['\\\])" '\\\\\\\$1' -- $data)
end
if test -n "$data"
commandline -i -- "$data"
end
end