The shell now expects a JSON object of the form {"kind":<kind>,...} per
line in the standard output of the completion process, where 'kind' is
one of:
- "plain": Just a plain suggestion.
- "program": Prompts the shell to complete a program name starting with
the given "name".
- "proxy": Prompts the shell to act as if a completion for "argv" was
requested.
- "path": Prompts the shell to complete a path given the "base" and
"part" (same as completing part in cwd=base).
This feature needs a bit more work, so let's disable it by default.
Note that the shell will still use _complete_foo if it is defined
regardless of this setting.
This commit limits the autocomplete processes to effectively have
readonly access to the fs, and only enough pledges to get the dynamic
loader working.
A program can either respond to `--complete -- some args to complete`
directly, or add a `_complete_<program name>` invokable (i.e. shell
function, or just a plain binary in PATH) that completes the given
command and lists the completions on stdout.
Should such a completion fail or yield no results, we'll fall back to
the previous completion algorithm.
Shell can now use LibLine's `on_paste` hook to more intelligently escape
pasted data, with the following heuristics:
- If the current command is invalid, just pile the pasted string on top
- If the cursor is *after* a command node, escape the pasted data,
whichever way yields a smaller encoding
- If the cursor is at the start of or in the middle of a command name,
paste the data as-is, assuming that the user wants to paste code
- If the cursor is otherwise in some argument, escape the pasted data
according to which kind of string the cursor is in the middle of
(double-quoted, single-quoted or a simple bareword)
This makes interrupting `sleep 10; echo hi` not print `hi` anymore,
which is the expected behaviour anyway.
Also fixes the problem with fast-running loops "eating" interrupts and
not quitting.
Naturally, this means that a command with a failing redirection will
not start, and so will terminate the pipeline (if any).
This also applies to the `exit` run when the shell is closed, fixing a
fun bug there as well (thanks to Discord user Salanty for pointing that
out) where closing the terminal (i.e. I/O error on the tty) with a
failing `exit` command would make the shell retry executing `exit` every
time, leading to an eventual stack overflow.
This commit makes the Shell check for errors after a node is run(), and
prevents further execution by unwinding until the error is cleared.
Fixes#10649.
Instead of the previous only-escape-with-backslashes, extend the
escaping to one of:
- No escape
- Escape with backslash
- Escape with "\xhh" if control character that isn't easily represented
as \X
- Escape with "\uhhhhhhhh" if unicode character that is too big to
represent as "\xhh".
Fixes#6986.
We had some inconsistencies before:
- Sometimes "The", sometimes "the"
- Sometimes trailing ".", sometimes no trailing "."
I picked the most common one (lowecase "the", trailing ".") and applied
it to all copyright headers.
By using the exact same string everywhere we can ensure nothing gets
missed during a global search (and replace), and that these
inconsistencies are not spread any further (as copyright headers are
commonly copied to new files).
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
Now a variable may have an optional slice (only _one_ slice), which can
also use negative indices to index from the end.
This works on both lists and strings.
The contents of the slice have the same semantics as brace expansions.
For example:
```sh
$ x=(1 2 3 4 5 6)
$ echo $x[1..3] # select indices 1, 2, 3
2 3 4
$ echo $x[3,4,1,0] # select indices 3, 4, 1, 0 (in that order)
4 5 2 1
$ x="Well Hello Friends!"
$ echo $x[5..9]
Hello
```
This commit adds a few basic variable substitution operations:
- length
Find the length of a string or a list
- length_across
Find the lengths of things inside a list
- remove_{suffix,prefix}
Remove a suffix or a prefix from all the passed values
- regex_replace
Replace all matches of a given regex with a given template
- split
Split the given string with the given delimiter (or to its
code points if the delimiter is empty)
- concat_lists
concatenates any given lists into one
Closes#4316 (the ancient version of this same feature)
Non-interactive shells (i.e. when running scripts) do not need this
functionality, so they are a boatload of wasted time.
This significantly reduces the script startup and shutdown times when
there are lots of executables in PATH or lots of entries in the history.
