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Johannes Altmanninger 368017905e builtin commandline: -x for expanded tokens, supplanting -o
Issue #10194 reports Cobra completions do

    set -l args (commandline -opc)
    eval $args[1] __complete $args[2..] (commandline -ct | string escape)

The intent behind "eval" is to expand variables and tildes in "$args".
Fair enough. Several of our own completions do the same, see the next commit.

The problem with "commandline -o" + "eval" is that the former already
removes quotes that are  relevant for "eval". This becomes a problem if $args
contains quoted () or {}, for example this command will wrongly execute a
command substituion:

    git --work-tree='(launch-missiles)' <TAB>

It is possible to escape the string the tokens before running eval, but
then there will be no expansion of variables etc.  The problem is that
"commandline -o" only unescapes tokens so they end up in a weird state
somewhere in-between what the user typed and the expanded version.

Remove the need for "eval" by introducing "commandline -x" which expands
things like variables and braces. This enables custom completion scripts to
be aware of shell variables without eval, see the added test for completions
to "make -C $var/some/dir ".

This means that essentially all third party scripts should migrate from
"commandline -o" to "commandline -x". For example

    set -l tokens
    if commandline -x >/dev/null 2>&1
        set tokens (commandline -xpc)
    else
        set tokens (commandline -opc)
    end

Since this is mainly used for completions, the expansion skips command
substitutions.  They are passed through as-is (instead of cancelling or
expanding to nothing) to make custom completion scripts work reasonably well
in the common case. Of course there are cases where we would want to expand
command substitutions here, so I'm not sure.
2024-01-27 09:28:06 +01:00
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completions builtin commandline: -x for expanded tokens, supplanting -o 2024-01-27 09:28:06 +01:00
functions Rename existing cache files 2024-01-21 14:18:50 +01:00
groff workaround broken groff man page config 2016-10-19 13:43:04 -07:00
tools fish_config: Fix on python < 3.12 if not on Windows 2024-01-12 18:42:55 +01:00
__fish_build_paths.fish.in Rename "snippets" to "conf" internally, and document them as snippets 2016-04-06 09:33:09 +08:00
config.fish share/config.fish: Skip __fish_set_locale if $LANG is already set 2023-09-09 15:53:20 +02:00