Our use of the terminfo database in /usr/share/terminfo/$TERM is both
1. a way for users to configure app behavior in their terminal (by
setting TERM, copying around and modifying terminfo files)
2. a way for terminal emulator developers to advertise support for
backwards-incompatible features that are not otherwise easily observable.
To 1: this is not ideal (it's very easy to break things). There's not many
things that realistically need configuration; let's use shell variables
instead.
To 2: in practice, feature-probing via terminfo is often wrong. There's not
many backwards-incompatible features that need this; for the ones that do
we can still use terminfo capabilities but query the terminal via XTGETTCAP
directly, skipping the file (which may not exist on the same system as
the terminal).
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Get rid of terminfo. If anyone finds a $TERM where we need different behavior,
we can hardcode that into fish.
* Allow to override this with `fish_features=no-ignore-terminfo fish`
Not sure if we should document this, since it's supposed to be removed soon,
and if someone needs this (which we don't expect), we'd like to know.
* This is supported on a best-effort basis; it doesn't match the previous
behavior exactly. For simplicity of implementation, it will not change
the fact that we now:
* use parm_left_cursor (CSI Ps D) instead of cursor_left (CSI D) if
terminfo claims the former is supported
* no longer support eat_newline_glitch, which seems no longer present
on today's ConEmu and ConHost
* Tested as described in https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/11345#discussion_r2030121580
* add `man fish-terminal-compatibility` to state our assumptions.
This could help terminal emulator developers.
* assume `parm_up_cursor` is supported if the terminal supports XTGETTCAP
* Extract all control sequences to src/terminal_command.rs.
* Remove the "\x1b(B" prefix from EXIT_ATTRIBUTE_MODE. I doubt it's really
needed.
* assume it's generally okay to output 256 colors
Things have improved since commit 3669805627 (Improve compatibility with
0-16 color terminals., 2016-07-21).
Apparently almost every actively developed terminal supports it, including
Terminal.app and GNU screen.
* That is, we default `fish_term256` to true and keep it only as a way to
opt out of the the full 256 palette (e.g. switching to the 16-color
palette).
* `TERM=xterm-16color` has the same opt-out effect.
* `TERM` is generally ignored but add back basic compatiblity by turning
off color for "ansi-m", "linux-m" and "xterm-mono"; these are probably
not set accidentally.
* Since `TERM` is (mostly) ignored, we don't need the magic "xterm" in
tests. Unset it instead.
* Note that our pexpect tests used a dumb terminal because:
1. it makes fish do a full redraw of the commandline everytime, making it
easier to write assertions.
2. it disables all control sequences for colors, etc, which we usually
don't want to test explicitly.
I don't think TERM=dumb has any other use, so it would be better
to print escape sequences unconditionally, and strip them in
the test driver (leaving this for later, since it's a bit more involved).
Closes#11344Closes#11345
This effectively disables "--help", replacing it with just a stand-in
string.
The upshot is that it makes the test suite immune to whether or not it
can find the documentation - until now it needed to *not* find it,
which is weird.
(also it saves some useless lines)
Fixes#11270
This test does "isolated-tmux send-keys Escape" to exit copy mode. When
EDITOR contains "vi", tmux will use Vi keybindings where Escape does
something else ("q" would exit copy mode).
Tests want to have predictable behavior so let's declare the default
emacs key bindings unconditionally.
Fixes#10812
Prior to this change, tmux based tests would call 'isolated-tmux' which would
initialize tmux on first call, an admitted "evil hack." Switch to requiring
an explicit call to 'isolated-tmux-start' which then defines 'isolated-tmux'
and other functions. Add some loop-until-prompt logic into
'isolated-tmux-start'. This improves reliability of the tmux tests on systems
under load; at least it makes the tests pass in the background on my Mac.
Remove the '$sleep' variable, to be replaced with 'tmux-sleep'.
This was long overdue since the setup logic is much more complex than
the actual tests.
tmux-prompt.fish had extra logic to protect against XDG_CONFIG_HOME
with leading double double-dot. I believe this is no longer necessary
with the new test driver.
We still use our own temp dir because we want to be able to run this
independently of the test driver, This can be useful for debugging
tests. For example we can insert a "$tmux attach" command in a test,
and then run
build/fish -C 'source tests/test_functions/isolated-tmux.fish' tests/checks/tmux-bind.fish
This allows to inspect the state of the test and debug interactively.
Attaching to the terminal doesn't work when running inside littlecheck
because littlecheck consumes our output and doesn't give us a terminal.
(Maybe there's an easy way to fix that?)
We have now entirely switched the script tests to littlecheck.
Note: This adjusts the complete_directories test, because it removes a
directory that was created before by a .in test. There's no real
change in behavior.
This does require the test directory be cleaned, or the tests will fail.
test_util gets to stay for a while longer, because it sets up the
testing env (locale and such).
This switches fish to a "virtual" PWD, where it no longer uses getcwd to
discover its PWD but instead synthesizes it based on normalizing cd against
the $PWD variable.
Both pwd and $PWD contain the virtual path. pwd is taught about -P to
return the physical path, and -L the logical path (which is the default).
Fixes#3350
This makes command substitutions impose the same limit on the amount
of data they accept as the `read` builtin. It does not limit output of
external commands or builtins in other contexts.
Fixes#3822
This implements support for numeric flags without an associated short or
long flag name. This pattern is used by many commands. For example `head
-3 /a/file` to emit the first three lines of the file.
Fixes#4214
GNU and BSD `mktemp` handle options differently, and it's a useful
utility for tests. As such, define a common `mktemp` function wrapper
for the test suite.
It might actually be nice to expand this for more flags and support it
globally, but that may result in confusion for any users of BSD mktemp
that expect to be running /bin/mktemp.
