The overwhelming majority of localizable messages comes from
completions:
$ ls share/completions/ | wc -l
$ 1048
OTOH functions also contribute a small amount, mostly via their
descriptions (so usually just one per file).
$ ls share/functions/ | wc -l
$ 237
Most of these are private and almost never shown to the user, so it's
not worth bothering translators with them. So:
- Skip private (see the parent commit) and deprecated functions.
- Skip wrapper functions like grep (where the translation seems to
be provided by apropos), and even the English description is not
helpful.
- Assume that most real systems have "seq", "realpath" etc.,
so it's no use providing our own translations for our fallbacks.
- Mark fish's own functions as tier1, and some barely-used functiosn
and completions as tier3, so we can order them that way in
po/*.po. Most translators should only look at tier1 and tier2.
In future we could disable localization for tier3.
See the explanation at the bottom of
tests/checks/message-localization-tier-is-declared.fish
Part of #11833
Some of these handled multiline prompts but not multiline command lines. We
first need to move the cursor to the end of the commandline, then we can
print a message. Finally, we need to move the cursor back to where it was.
Fish functions are great for configuring fish but they don't integrate
seamlessly with the rest of the system. For tasks that can run outside fish,
writing scripts is the natural approach.
To edit my scripts I frequently run
$EDITOR (which my-script)
Would be great to reduce the amount typing for this common case (the names
of editor and scripts are usually short, so that's a lot of typing spent on
the boring part).
Our Alt+o binding opens the file at the cursor in a pager. When the cursor
is in command position, it doesn't do anything (unless the command is actually
a valid file path). Let's make it open the resolved file path in an editor.
In future, we should teach this binding to delegate to "funced" upon seeing
a function instead of a script. I didn't do it yet because funced prints
messages, so it will mess with the commandline rendering if used from
a binding. (The fact that funced encourages overwriting functions that
ship with fish is worrysome. Also I'm not sure why funced doesn't open the
function's source file directly (if not sourced from stdin). Persisting the
function should probably be the default.)
Alternative approach: I think other shells expand "=my-script" to
"/path/to/my-script". That is certainly an option -- if we do that we'd want
to teach fish to complete command names after "=". Since I don't remember
scenarios where I care about the full path of a script beyond opening it in
my editor, I didn't look further into this.
Closes#10266
