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fish-shell/doc_src/cmds/status.rst
Johannes Altmanninger 3453565a41 Builtin for querying terminal capabilities/name/version
The next commit wants to add a conditional default for styled underlines.
Due to various incompatibilities in terminals, our best option seems to ask
the terminal.

Today we can make XTGETTCAP queries using something like

	printf '\eP+q5373\e\\' # Su
	printf '\e[0c'
	while read -n 1
	    ...
	end

This doesn't seem safe because builtin read might consume other data written
by the terminal such as keyboard input.

Avoid this problem by providing it as a builtin that can enqueue unrelated
input and process it after the query has been answered.

For the same reason, add a builtin to query for XTVERSION; this allows us
to add workarounds for specific terminals (example in the next commit).

TODO:
- Naming -- maybe add a level of nesting:

	status query-terminal xtgettcap
	status query-terminal xtversion
	# Possible future additions:
	status query-terminal os-name
	status query-terminal cursor-position

or "status query-xtgettcap".
We could also hide the exact protocol by saying
"status query terminfo-capability".

Note that xtgettcap, xtversion and os-name are expected to always give the
same results throughout the lifetime of the fish process.  Keep caching
XTVERSION as before, though that's probably not needed.

Future work:

XTGETTCAP potentially supports all of terminfo: boolean, numeric and string
capabilities. Today we have no use beyond checking for presence/absence of
a capabilty. If we ever need more, we can use stdout.
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.. _cmd-status:
status - query fish runtime information
=======================================
Synopsis
--------
.. synopsis::
status
status is-login
status is-interactive
status is-interactive-read
status is-block
status is-breakpoint
status is-command-substitution
status is-no-job-control
status is-full-job-control
status is-interactive-job-control
status current-command
status current-commandline
status filename
status basename
status dirname
status fish-path
status function
status line-number
status stack-trace
status job-control CONTROL_TYPE
status features
status test-feature FEATURE
status buildinfo
status get-file FILE
status list-files [PATH]
status xtgettcap TERMINFO-CAPABILITY
status xtversion
Description
-----------
With no arguments, ``status`` displays a summary of the current login and job control status of the shell.
The following operations (subcommands) are available:
**is-command-substitution**, **-c** or **--is-command-substitution**
Returns 0 if fish is currently executing a command substitution.
**is-block**, **-b** or **--is-block**
Returns 0 if fish is currently executing a block of code.
**is-breakpoint**
Returns 0 if fish is currently showing a prompt in the context of a :doc:`breakpoint <breakpoint>` command. See also the :doc:`fish_breakpoint_prompt <fish_breakpoint_prompt>` function.
**is-interactive**, **-i** or **--is-interactive**
Returns 0 if fish is interactive - that is, connected to a keyboard.
**is-interactive-read** or **--is-interactive-read**
Returns 0 if fish is running an interactive :doc:`read <read>` builtin which is connected to a keyboard.
**is-login**, **-l** or **--is-login**
Returns 0 if fish is a login shell - that is, if fish should perform login tasks such as setting up :envvar:`PATH`.
**is-full-job-control** or **--is-full-job-control**
Returns 0 if full job control is enabled.
**is-interactive-job-control** or **--is-interactive-job-control**
Returns 0 if interactive job control is enabled.
**is-no-job-control** or **--is-no-job-control**
Returns 0 if no job control is enabled.
**current-command**
Prints the name of the currently-running function or command, like the deprecated :envvar:`_` variable.
**current-commandline**
Prints the entirety of the currently-running commandline, inclusive of all jobs and operators.
**filename**, **current-filename**, **-f** or **--current-filename**
Prints the filename of the currently-running script. If the current script was called via a symlink, this will return the symlink. If the current script was received by piping into :doc:`source <source>`, then this will return ``-``.
**basename**
Prints just the filename of the running script, without any path components before.
**dirname**
Prints just the path to the running script, without the actual filename itself. This can be relative to :envvar:`PWD` (including just "."), depending on how the script was called. This is the same as passing the filename to ``dirname(3)``. It's useful if you want to use other files in the current script's directory or similar.
**fish-path**
Prints the absolute path to the currently executing instance of fish. This is a best-effort attempt and the exact output is down to what the platform gives fish. In some cases you might only get "fish".
**function** or **current-function**
Prints the name of the currently called function if able, when missing displays "Not a function" (or equivalent translated string).
**line-number**, **current-line-number**, **-n** or **--current-line-number**
Prints the line number of the currently running script.
**stack-trace**, **print-stack-trace**, **-t** or **--print-stack-trace**
Prints a stack trace of all function calls on the call stack.
**job-control**, **-j** or **--job-control** *CONTROL_TYPE*
Sets the job control type to *CONTROL_TYPE*, which can be **none**, **full**, or **interactive**.
**features**
Lists all available feature flags.
**test-feature** *FEATURE*
Returns 0 when FEATURE is enabled, 1 if it is disabled, and 2 if it is not recognized.
**buildinfo**
This prints information on how fish was build - which architecture, which build system or profile was used, etc.
This is mainly useful for debugging.
**get-file** *FILE*
This prints a file embedded in the fish binary at compile time. This includes the default set of functions and completions,
as well as the man pages and themes. Which files are included depends on build settings.
Returns 0 if the file was included, 1 otherwise.
**list-files** *FILE*
This lists the files embedded in the fish binary at compile time. Only files where the path starts with the optional *FILE* argument are shown.
Returns 0 if something was printed, 1 otherwise.
**xtgettcap** *TERMINFO-CAPABILITY*
Query the terminal for a terminfo capability via XTGETTCAP.
Returns 0 if the capability is present and 1 otherwise.
**xtversion**
Show the terminal name and version (XTVERSION).
Notes
-----
For backwards compatibility most subcommands can also be specified as a long or short option. For example, rather than ``status is-login`` you can type ``status --is-login``. The flag forms are deprecated and may be removed in a future release (but not before fish 4.0).
You can only specify one subcommand per invocation even if you use the flag form of the subcommand.