The __fish_data_with_file wrapper was born out of a desire to simplify
handling of file paths that may or may not be embedded into the
fish binary.
Since 95aeb16ca2 (Remove embed-data feature flag, 2025-11-20) this is
no longer needed since almost everything is embedded unconditionally.
The exception is man pages (see a1baf97f54 (Do not embed man pages
in CMake builds, 2025-11-20)), but they use __fish_data_with_directory.
Commit 0709e4be8b (Use standalone code paths by default, 2025-10-26)
mainly wanted to embed internal functions to unbreak upgrade scenarios.
Embedding man pages in CMake has small-ish disadvantages:
1. extra space usage
2. less discoverability
3. a "cyclic" dependency:
1. "sphinx-docs" depends on "fish_indent"
2. "fish_indent" via "crates/build-man-pages" depends on "doc_src/".
So every "touch doc_src/foo.rst && ninja -Cbuild sphinx-docs"
re-builds fish, just to re-run sphinx-build.
The significant one is number 3. It can be worked around by running
sphinx-build with stale "fish_indent" but I don't think we want to
do that.
Let's backtrack a little by stopping embedding man pages in CMake
builds; use the on-disk man pages (which we still install).
The remaining "regression" from 0709e4be8b is that "ninja -Cbuild
fish" needs to rebuild whenever anything in "share/" changes. I don't
know if that's also annoying?
Since man pages for "build/fish" are not in share/, expose the exact
path as $__fish_man_dir.
This mode still has some problems (see the next commit) but having
it behind a feature flag doesn't serve us. Let's commit to the parts
we want to keep and drop anything that we don't want.
To reduce diff noise, use "if false" in the code paths used by man
pages; a following commit will use them.
Historically,
- our "man" wrapper prepends /usr/share/fish/man to $MANPATH
- "__fish_print_help" only operates on /usr/share/fish/man, to it
accesses that directly
However standalone builds -- where /usr/share/fish/man may not exist
-- have complicated things; we temporarily materialize a fake man
directory.
Reuse __fish_print_help instead of duplicating this.
Part of #12037
