While at it, also document the command to reset the shape to the default,
which we should probably use. See foot commit 49034bb7 (csi: let CSI 0 q mean
"switch to user configured cursor style", 2019-07-22).
As of today, the XTerm documentation is a not clear on this; in
XTerm itself, CSI 0 q may actually change the cursor because they have an
additional default cursor is configured differently..
I think `set_color ff0000` should default to outputting true-color sequences.
Unfortunately there is no good and widely-supported way to query for true-color
support. `COLORTERM=truecolor` doesn't work in some cases such as ssh.
Since many terminals nowadays implement the RGB sequences, let's try using
them by default.
Note that Emacs's ansi-term implements truecolor now.
See also the discussion around
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/11345#issuecomment-2794920900Closes#11372
This is no longer useful, given that we read files from in the binary.
In the upcoming commits, this can be done with status list-files/get-file if you need it
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).
---
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
I don't think there's a relevant terminal where the "bind -k" notation is
still needed. The remaining reason to keep it is backwards compatibility.
But "bind -k" is already subtly broken on terminals that implement either
of modifyOtherKeys, application keypad mode or the kitty keyboard protocol,
since those alter the byte sequences (see #11278).
Having it randomly not work might do more harm than good. Remove it.
This is meant go into 4.1, which means that users who switch back and forth
between 4.1 and 4.0 can already use the new notation.
If someone wants to use the bind config for a wider range of versions they
could use "bind -k 2>/dev/null" etc.
While at it, use the new key names in "bind --key-names", and sort it like
we do in "bind --function-names".
Closes#11342
Text like "simply do" or "just press" is patronizing and unnecessary.
The prose is nicer if it's removed, and in some cases other words are
more specific.
Something like "we'll pretend your prompt is just a ``>``" can stay.
This add two commands history-last-token-search-backward and
history-last-token-search-forward which behaves like bash's yank-last-arg. So
similar to history-token-search-* but only considers the last argument for
each command.
Closes#10756Closes#11258
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
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.
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)
Commit 4f536d6a9b (Update commandline state snapshot lazily,
2024-04-13) add an optimization to update the search field only if
necessary. The optimization accidentally prevents us from resetting
the search field.
Fixes#11161
I'm running fish 4.0b1 locally and I tried running `help abbr` and
browsing the docs. I noticed one example which wasn't formatted
correctly.
I'm not too familiar with rst, but based on looking at the file, it
seems that this is how example code should be represented.
e697add5b5 (Feature flag to prevent executing off buffered keys, 2025-01-02)
breaks my expectations/habits, and it breaks Midnight Commander.
Additionally, I'm not aware of any case where it actually adds security.
We generally assume that terminal echoback sequences do not contain
control characters except for well-known escape sequences.
This backs out commit e697add5b5.
See #10987, #10991
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
The current limit can be reached in actual use and still be a usable shell.
E.g. in #11095 someone had `git status` print over 100MiB of file
information.
The version where a feature became the default is now described inline,
to make it a single source of truth. I could have fixed the other
section where this was described, but this seemed easier.
I also removed a few details that seem no longer relevant.
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.
For compound commands we already have begin/end but
> it is long, which it is not convenient for the command line
> it is different than {} which shell users have been using for >50 years
The difference from {} can break muscle memory and add extra steps
when I'm trying to write simple commands that work in any shell.
Fix that by embracing the traditional style too.
---
Since { and } have always been special syntax in fish, we can also
allow
{ }
{ echo }
which I find intuitive even without having used a shell that supports
this (like zsh. The downside is that this doesn't work in some other
shells. The upside is in aesthetics and convenience (this is for
interactive use). Not completely sure about this.
---
This implementation adds a hack to the tokenizer: '{' is usually a
brace expansion. Make it compound command when in command position
(not something the tokenizer would normally know). We need to disable
this when parsing a freestanding argument lists (in "complete somecmd
-a "{true,false}"). It's not really clear what "read -t" should do.
For now, keep the existing behavior (don't parse compound statements).
Add another hack to increase backwards compatibility: parse something
like "{ foo }" as brace statement only if it has a space after
the opening brace. This style is less likely to be used for brace
expansion. Perhaps we can change this in future (I'll make a PR).
Use separate terminal token types for braces; we could make the
left brace an ordinary string token but since string tokens undergo
unescaping during expansion etc., every such place would need to know
whether it's dealing with a command or an argument. Certainly possible
but it seems simpler (especially for tab-completions) to strip braces
in the parser. We could change this.
---
In future we could allow the following alternative syntax (which is
invalid today).
if true {
}
if true; {
}
Closes#10895Closes#10898
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
If I run "sleep 3", type a command and hit enter, then there is no
obvious way to cancel or edit the imminent command other than ctrl-c
but that also cancels sleep, and doesn't allow editing. (ctrl-z sort
of works, but also doesn't allow editing).
Let's try to limit ourselves to inserting the buffered command
(translating enter to a newline), and only execute once the user
actually presses enter after the previous command is done.
Hide it behind a new feature flag for now.
By making things less scary, this might be more user-friendly, at
the risk of breaking expectations in some cases.
This also fixes a class of security issues where a command like
`cat malicious-file.txt` might output escape sequences, causing
the terminal to echo back a malicious command; such files can still
insert into the command line but at least not execute it directly.
(Since it's only fixed partially I'm not really sure if the security
issue is a good enough motivation for this particular change.)
Note that bracketed paste probably has similar motivation as this feature.
Part of #10987Closes#10991
