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# Description
Small refactoring where I rename commands from "SubCommand" to its
proper name. Motivations: better clarity (although subjective), better
searchable, consistency.
The only commands I didn't touch were "split list" and "ansi gradient"
because of name clashes.
# User-Facing Changes
None
# Tests + Formatting
cargo fmt and clippy OK
# After Submitting
nothing required
# Description
Pre-cratification of `nu-command` we added tests that covered the whole
command set to ensure consistent documentation style choices and that
the search terms which are added are not uselessly redundant. These
tests are now moved into the suite of the main binary to truly cover all
commands.
- **Move parser quickcheck "fuzz" to `nu-cmd-lang`**
- **Factor out creation of full engine state for tests**
- **Move all-command tests to main context creation**
- **Fix all descriptions**
- **Fix search term duplicate**
# User-Facing Changes
As a result I had to fix a few command argument descriptions. (Doesn't
mean I fully stand behind this choice, but) positionals
(rest/required/optional) and top level descriptions should start with a
capital letter and end with a period. This is not enforced for flags.
# Tests + Formatting
Furthermore I moved our poor-peoples-fuzzer that runs in CI with
`quicktest` over the parser to `nu-cmd-lang` reducing its command set to
just the keywords (similar to
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15036). Thus this should also
run slightly faster (maybe a slight parallel build cost due to earlier
dependency on quicktest)
# Description
The meaning of the word usage is specific to describing how a command
function is *used* and not a synonym for general description. Usage can
be used to describe the SYNOPSIS or EXAMPLES sections of a man page
where the permitted argument combinations are shown or example *uses*
are given.
Let's not confuse people and call it what it is a description.
Our `help` command already creates its own *Usage* section based on the
available arguments and doesn't refer to the description with usage.
# User-Facing Changes
`help commands` and `scope commands` will now use `description` or
`extra_description`
`usage`-> `description`
`extra_usage` -> `extra_description`
Breaking change in the plugin protocol:
In the signature record communicated with the engine.
`usage`-> `description`
`extra_usage` -> `extra_description`
The same rename also takes place for the methods on
`SimplePluginCommand` and `PluginCommand`
# Tests + Formatting
- Updated plugin protocol specific changes
# After Submitting
- [ ] update plugin protocol doc
# Description
When implementing a `Command`, one must also import all the types
present in the function signatures for `Command`. This makes it so that
we often import the same set of types in each command implementation
file. E.g., something like this:
```rust
use nu_protocol::ast::Call;
use nu_protocol::engine::{Command, EngineState, Stack};
use nu_protocol::{
record, Category, Example, IntoInterruptiblePipelineData, IntoPipelineData, PipelineData,
ShellError, Signature, Span, Type, Value,
};
```
This PR adds the `nu_engine::command_prelude` module which contains the
necessary and commonly used types to implement a `Command`:
```rust
// command_prelude.rs
pub use crate::CallExt;
pub use nu_protocol::{
ast::{Call, CellPath},
engine::{Command, EngineState, Stack},
record, Category, Example, IntoInterruptiblePipelineData, IntoPipelineData, IntoSpanned,
PipelineData, Record, ShellError, Signature, Span, Spanned, SyntaxShape, Type, Value,
};
```
This should reduce the boilerplate needed to implement a command and
also gives us a place to track the breadth of the `Command` API. I tried
to be conservative with what went into the prelude modules, since it
might be hard/annoying to remove items from the prelude in the future.
Let me know if something should be included or excluded.
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Related issue and PR, #11825#11864
This improves the signature of `commandline`.
## Before
`commandline` returns different types depending on the flags and an
aurgument.
| command | input | output | description |
|-----------------------------|---------|---------|----------------------------------------|
| `commandline` | nothing | string | get current cursor line |
| `commandline arg` | nothing | nothing | replace the cursor line with
`arg` |
| `commandline --append arg` | nothing | nothing | append `arg` to the
end of cursor line |
| `commandline --insert arg` | nothing | nothing | insert `arg` to the
position of cursor |
| `commandline --replace arg` | nothing | nothing | replace the cursor
line with `arg` |
| `commandline --cursor` | nothing | int | get current cursor position |
| `commandline --cursor pos` | nothing | nothing | set cursor position
to pos |
| `commandline --cursor-end` | nothing | nothing | set cursor position
to end |
`help commandline` shows that `commandline` accepts string as pipeline
input, but `commandline` ignores pipeline input.
```
Input/output types:
╭───┬─────────┬─────────╮
│ # │ input │ output │
├───┼─────────┼─────────┤
│ 0 │ nothing │ nothing │
│ 1 │ string │ string │
╰───┴─────────┴─────────╯
```
671bd08bcd/crates/nu-cli/src/commands/commandline.rs (L70)
This is misleading.
Due to the change #11864 , typecheck does not work well.
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/11864#discussion_r1491814054
## After
Separate `commandline` into subcommands so that each subcommands returns
the same type for the same input type.
| command | input | output | description |
|----------------------------------|---------|---------|----------------------------------------|
| `commandline` | nothing | string | get current cursor line |
| `commandline edit arg` | nothing | nothing | replace the cursor line
with `arg` |
| `commandline edit --append arg` | nothing | nothing | append `arg` to
the end of cursor line |
| `commandline edit --insert arg` | nothing | nothing | insert `arg` to
the position of cursor |
| `commandline edit --replace arg` | nothing | nothing | replace the
cursor line with `arg` |
| `commandline get-cursor` | nothing | int | get current cursor position
|
| `commandline set-cursor pos` | nothing | nothing | set cursor position
to pos |
| `commandline set-cursor --end` | nothing | nothing | set cursor
position to end |
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