Johannes Altmanninger b5bb50d742 builtin commandline: apply commandline+cursor to first top-level reader ...

Historically, `fish -C "commandline echo"` was silently ignored.  Make it do
the expected thing.  This won't affect subsequent readers because we only do
it for top-level ones, and reader_pop() will clear the commandline state again.

This improves consistency with the parent commit.  We probably don't want to
support arbitrary readline commands before the first reader is initialized,
but setting the initial commandline seems useful: first, it would have helped
me in the past for debugging fish.  Second, it would allow one to rewrite
an application launcher:

	 foot --app-id my-foot-launcher -e fish -C '
	 	set fish_history launcher
	 	bind escape exit
	 	bind ctrl-\[ exit
	-	function fish_should_add_to_history
	-		false
	-	end
	-	for enter in enter ctrl-j
	-		bind $enter '\''
	-			history append -- "$(commandline)"
	-			commandline "setsid $(commandline) </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 & disown && exit"
	-			commandline -f execute
	-		'\''
	-	end
	+	commandline "setsid  </dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 & disown && exit"
	+	commandline --cursor $(string length "setsid ")
	 '

which is probably not desirable today because it will disable autosuggestions.
Though that could be fixed eventually by making autosuggestions smarter.

If we find a generally-useful use case, we should mention this in the changelog.

Ref: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/11570#discussion_r2144544053

2025-07-03 14:38:42 +02:00

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