Most versions of fish don't run any external processes at startup, except
maybe fish_vcs_prompt. This changed recently with a couple additions of uname.
This is probably fine but I guess we can reduce it down to one.
This change feels somewhat wrong. Not sure. I guess we can remove it once
we provide $OSTYPE.
Note that this is also the reason why bindings don't use
bind alt-backspace 'if test "$(uname)" = Darwin ...'
We don't want to expose a private interface in "bind" output.
Commit 6af96a81a8 (Default bindings for token movement commands, 2024-10-05)
has been reverted but not all docs have been.
Key bindings to move by command line argument are quite intuitive, and useful
when moving across URLs or other long arguments.
We have redundant bindings like {alt,ctrl}-left, so let's use one of them
for token movement. We don't want to break the OS-native shortcut for word
movement, so use the other one on the current platform.
Note that Sublime Text does something similar: it uses the native key
binding for word movement, and the vacant one (e.g. `alt-left` on Linux)
for sub-word movement in camel case words.
While there have been 2.5 votes against making this platform dependent,
the majority of feedback was in favor.
This uses uname which seems wrong; we should rather use the OS that the
terminal is running on. I plan to implement this in future, but there's no
consensus yet on whether terminal applications should be allowed to do this.
See #10926
See #11107
When a command like "long-running-command &" exits, the resulting SIGCHLD
is queued in the topic monitor. We do not process this signal immediately
but only after e.g. the next command has finished. Only then do we reap the
child process.
Some terminals, such as Terminal.app, refuse to close when there are unreaped
processes associated with the terminal -- as in, having the same session ID,
see setsid(3).
In future, we might want to reap proactively.
For now, apply an isolated workaround: instead of taking care of a child
process, double-fork to create an orphaned process. Since the orphan will
be reaped by PID 1, we can eventually close Terminal.app without it asking
for confirmation.
/bin/sh -c '( "$@" ) >/dev/null 2>&1 &' -- cmd arg1 arg2
This fix confines the problem to the period during which a background process
is running. To complete the fix, we would need to call setsid to detach the
background process from a controlling terminal. That seems to be desirable
however macOS does provide a setsid utility.
setsid cmd arg1 arg2 >/dev/null 2>&1
Fixes#11181
As of 303af07, iTerm2 3.5.11 on two different machines has two different
behaviors. For unknown reasons, when pressing alt-right fish_key_reader
shows "\e\[1\;9C" on one machine and "\e\[1\;3C" on another.
Feels like iTerm2 interprets modifyOtherKeys differently, depending on
configuration.
We don't want to risk asking for the kitty
keyboard protocol until iTerm2 3.5.12 (see
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/11004#issuecomment-2571494782).
So let's work around around this weirdness by adding back the legacy
bindings removed in c0bcd817ba (Remove obsolete bindings, 2024-04-28) and
plan to remove them in a few years.
Note that fish_key_reader still reports this as "left", which already has
a different binding, but it looks like literal matches of legacy sequences
have precedence.
Fixes the problem described in
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/11192#issuecomment-2692247060Closes#11192
As reported in
https://matrix.to/#/!YLTeaulxSDauOOxBoR:matrix.org/$CLuoHTdvcRj_8-HBBq0p-lmGWeix5khEtKEDxN2Ulfo
Running
fish -C '
fzf_key_bindings
echo fish_vi_key_bindings >>~/.config/fish/config.fish
fzf-history-widget
'
and pressing "enter" will add escape sequences like "[2 q" (cursor shape)
to fish's command line.
This is because fzf-history-widget binds "enter" to a filter
that happens to be a fish script:
set -lx FZF_DEFAULT_OPTS \
... \
"--bind='enter:become:string replace -a -- \n\t \n {2..} | string collect'" \
'--with-shell='(status fish-path)\\ -c)
The above ~/.config/fish/config.fish (redundantly) runs "fish_vi_key_bindings"
even in *noninteractive* shells, then "fish_vi_cursor" will print cursor
sequences in its "fish_exit" handler. The sequence is not printed to the
terminal but to fzf which doesn't parse CSI commands.
This is a regression introduced by a5dfa84f73 (fish_vi_cursor: skip if stdin
is not a tty, 2023-11-14). That commit wanted "fish -c read" to be able to
use Vi cursor. This is a noninteractive shell, but inside "read" we are
"effectively interactive". However "status is-interactive" does not tell
us that.
Let's use a more contained fix to make sure that we print escape sequences only
if either fish is interactive, or if we are evaluating an interactive read.
In general, "fish -c read" is prone to configuration errors, since we
recommend gating configuration (for bind etc) on "status is-interactive"
which will not run here.
Konsole has a bug: it does not recognize file:://$hostname/path as directory.
When we send that via OSC 7, that breaks Konsole's "Open Folder With"
context menu entry.
OSC 7 producers are strongly encouraged to set a non-empty hostname, but
it's not clear if consumers are supposed to accept an empty hostname (see
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/terminal-wg/specifications/-/issues/20).
I think it should be fine; implementations should treat it as local path.
Let's work around the Konsole bug by omitting the hostname for now. This
may not be fully correct when using a remote desktop tool to access a
system running Konsole but I guess that's unlikely and understandable.
We're using KONSOLE_VERSION, so it the workaround should not leak into SSH
sessions where a hostname component is important.
Closes#11198
Proposed upstream fix https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/kio/-/merge_requests/1820
Code blocks are often written like
$ echo hello world
hello world
The "$ " is widely understood to introduce a shell command. It's often
easier to copy the whole line than copying everything after "$ ".
This gets more pronounced when there are multiple commands without interleaved
output (either due to omission or the rule of silence). Copying the whole
code block is the most natural first step.
You could argue that this is a presentation issue - the dollar prefix
should be rendered but not copied to clipboard. But in my experience there
are many cases where there is no HTML or Javascript that would allow the
copy-to-clipboard functionality to strip the prefixes.
The "$ " prefix is almost never useful when pasting; strip it automatically.
Privileged commands use "# " as prefix which overlaps with comments, so do
not strip that until we can disambiguate (another potential reason not to
do that would be safety but it's unclear if that really matters).
Add the new logic to the commandline builtin, because we don't know about the
AST in fish script. (Technically, the tokenizer already knows whether a "$
" is in command position and at the beginning of a line, but we don't
have that either (yet).)
Maybe we should move the rest of __fish_paste over as well. I'm not sure what
difference that would make; for one, pasting could no longer be cancelled
by ctrl-c (in theory), which seems like a good direction?
Comments by macOS users have shown that, apparently, on that platform
this isn't wanted.
The functions are there for people to use,
but we need more time to figure out if and how we're going to bind
these by default.
For example, we could change these bindings depending on the OS in future.
This reverts most of commit 6af96a81a8.
Fixes#10926
See #11107
(cherry picked from commit 378f452eaa)
alt-{left,right} move in the directory history (like in browsers).
Arrow keys can be inconvenient to reach on some keyboards, so
let's alias this to alt-{b,f}, which already have similar behavior.
(historically the behavior was the same; we're considering changing
that back on some platforms).
This happens to fix alt-{left,right} in Terminal.app (where we had
a workaround for some cases), Ghostty, though that alone should not
be the reason for this change.
Closes#11105
This reverts commit ebdc3a0393.
Not discussed, includes a new thing that queries the terminal for the client OS
when what is really needed is just a `uname` - which would also work on Terminal.app.
Revert "README for this fork"
This reverts commit 97db461e7f.
Revert "Allow foo=bar global variable assignments"
This reverts commit 45a2017580.
Revert "Interpret () in command position as subshell"
This reverts commit 0199583435.
Revert "Allow special variables $?,$$,$@,$#"
This reverts commit 4a71ee1288.
Revert "Allow $() in command position"
This reverts commit 4b99fe2288.
Revert "Turn off full LTO"
This reverts commit b1213f1385.
Revert "Back out "bind: Remove "c-" and "a-" shortcut notation""
This reverts commit f43abc42f9.
Revert "Un-hide documentation of non-fish shell builtins"
This reverts commit 485201ba2e.
Unlike other builtins, "{" is a separate token, not a keyword-string
token.
Allow the left brace token as command string; produce it when parsing
"{ -h"/"{ --help" (and nowhere else). By using a decorated statement,
we reuse logic for redirections etc.
Other syntax elements like "and" are in the builtin list, which
- adds highlighting logic
- adds it to "builtin --names"
- makes it runnable as builtin
(e.g. "builtin '{'" would hypothetically print the man page)
These don't seem very important (highlighting for '{' needs to match
'}' anyway).
Additionally, making it a real builtin would mean that we'd need to
deactivate a few places that unescape "{" to BRACE_BEGIN.
Let's not add it to the built in list. Instead, simply synthesize
builtin_generic in the right spot.
I'm assuming we want "{ -h" to print help, but '"{" -h' to run an
external command, since the latter is historical behavior. This works
naturally with the above fake builtin approach which never tries to
unescape the left brace.
If a child program crashes with some text rendered below the cursor,
we fail to clear that text. For example run vim, "pkill -9 vim" and
observe that scrollback-push fails to clean up the leftover text.
Fix that.
UnLike other aliases (":.["), ! is special in the grammar but in the
few cases like "! -h" where we parse it as decorated statement they
are equals. Add it to the built in list, so the help argument works.
It can still be overridden, so this should not break anything.
And leave the old behavior under the name "cancel-commandline".
This renames "cancel-commandline-traditional" back to
"cancel-commandline", so the old name triggers the old behavior.
Fixes#10935
To make it more familiar to vi/vim users.
In all mode, ctrl-k is bind to kill-line.
In Vi visual mode:
* press v or i turn into normal or insert mode respectively.
* press I turn to insert mode and move the cursor to beginning of line.
* because fish doesn't have upcase/locase-selection, and most people reach for
g-U rather than g-u, g-U binds to togglecase-selection temporarily.
Testing has revealed some problems on BSD and Windows terminals and
the Linux Console, let's revert to the old implementation until these
are fixed. Leaving the changelog entry for now since it shouldn't
take long.
See #11003
jj is often colocated with Git so the Git prompt also works, but
jj is always in a detached HEAD state, which is atypical for Git.
The jj prompt improves things by showing the revision ID which is
usually more useful than the commit ID.
This prompt is mostly adapted from the defaults for "jj log -r @".
Showing conflicting/empty commits seems useful.
Also perhaps bookmarks and tags, not sure.
The main problem with this prompt is that due to --ignore-working-copy,
the information may be stale. That will be rectified after every jj
command, so hopefully this doesn't cause issues.
Fixes#10980.
This would, if a commandline was given, still revert to checking
the *real* commandline if it was empty.
Unfortunately, in those cases, it could have found a command and tried
to complete it.
If a commandline is given, that is what needs to be completed.
(note this means this is basically useless in completions that use it
like `sudo` and could just be replaced with `complete -C"$commandline"`)
On ctrl-l we send `\e[2J` (Erase in Display). Some terminals interpret
this to scroll the screen content instead of clearing it. This happens
on VTE-based terminals like gnome-terminal for example.
The traditional behavior of ctrl-l erasing the screen (but not the
rest of the scrollback) is weird because:
1. `ctrl-l` is the easiest and most portable way to push the prompt
to the top (and repaint after glitches I guess). But it's also a
destructive action, truncating scrollback. I use it for scrolling
and am frequently surprised when my scroll back is missing
information.
2. the amount of lines erased depends on the window size.
It would be more intuitive to erase by prompts, or erase the text
in the terminal selection.
Let's use scrolling behavior on all terminals.
The new command could also be named "push-to-scrollback", for
consistency with others. But if we anticipate a want to add other
scrollback-related commands, "scrollback-push" is better.
This causes tests/checks/tmux-history-search.fish to fail; that test
seems pretty broken; M-d (alt-d) is supposed to delete the current
search match but there is a rogue "echo" that is supposed to invalidate
the search match. I'm not sure how that ever worked.
Also, pexepect doesn't seem to support cursor position reporting,
so work around that.
Ref: https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/wiki#how-do-i-make-ctrl-l-scroll-the-content-instead-of-erasing-it
as of wiki commit b57489e298f95d037fdf34da00ea60a5e8eafd6d
Closes#10934
__fish_cancel_commandline was unused (even before) and has some issues
on multiline commandlines. Make it use the previously active logic.
Closes#10935
When built with the default "installable" feature, the data files (share/) are
included in the fish binary itself.
Run `fish --install` or `fish --install=noconfirm` (for
non-interactive use) to install fish's data files into ~/.local/share/fish/install
To figure out if the data files are out of date, we write the current version
to a file on install, and read it on start.
CMake disables the default features so nothing changes for that, but this allows installing via `cargo install`,
and even making a static binary that you can then just upload and have extract itself.
We set $__fish_help_dir to empty for installable builds, because we do not have
a way to generate html docs (because we need fish_indent for highlighting).
The man pages are found via $__fish_data_dir/man
Mostly we pass on the options - otherwise they would be ignored.
For `clear`, we do need the full checks, because that will
prompt *before* running the builtin.
But this makes it easier to eventually move that logic into the builtin
