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Author SHA1 Message Date
Yehuda Katz
c2c10e2bc0 Overhaul the coloring system
This commit replaces the previous naive coloring system with a coloring
system that is more aligned with the parser.

The main benefit of this change is that it allows us to use parsing
rules to decide how to color tokens.

For example, consider the following syntax:

```
$ ps | where cpu > 10
```

Ideally, we could color `cpu` like a column name and not a string,
because `cpu > 10` is a shorthand block syntax that expands to
`{ $it.cpu > 10 }`.

The way that we know that it's a shorthand block is that the `where`
command declares that its first parameter is a `SyntaxShape::Block`,
which allows the shorthand block form.

In order to accomplish this, we need to color the tokens in a way that
corresponds to their expanded semantics, which means that high-fidelity
coloring requires expansion.

This commit adds a `ColorSyntax` trait that corresponds to the
`ExpandExpression` trait. The semantics are fairly similar, with a few
differences.

First `ExpandExpression` consumes N tokens and returns a single
`hir::Expression`. `ColorSyntax` consumes N tokens and writes M
`FlatShape` tokens to the output.

Concretely, for syntax like `[1 2 3]`

- `ExpandExpression` takes a single token node and produces a single
  `hir::Expression`
- `ColorSyntax` takes the same token node and emits 7 `FlatShape`s
  (open delimiter, int, whitespace, int, whitespace, int, close
  delimiter)

Second, `ColorSyntax` is more willing to plow through failures than
`ExpandExpression`.

In particular, consider syntax like

```
$ ps | where cpu >
```

In this case

- `ExpandExpression` will see that the `where` command is expecting a
  block, see that it's not a literal block and try to parse it as a
  shorthand block. It will successfully find a member followed by an
  infix operator, but not a following expression. That means that the
  entire pipeline part fails to parse and is a syntax error.
- `ColorSyntax` will also try to parse it as a shorthand block and
  ultimately fail, but it will fall back to "backoff coloring mode",
  which parsing any unidentified tokens in an unfallible, simple way. In
  this case, `cpu` will color as a string and `>` will color as an
  operator.

Finally, it's very important that coloring a pipeline infallibly colors
the entire string, doesn't fail, and doesn't get stuck in an infinite
loop.

In order to accomplish this, this PR separates `ColorSyntax`, which is
infallible from `FallibleColorSyntax`, which might fail. This allows the
type system to let us know if our coloring rules bottom out at at an
infallible rule.

It's not perfect: it's still possible for the coloring process to get
stuck or consume tokens non-atomically. I intend to reduce the
opportunity for those problems in a future commit. In the meantime, the
current system catches a number of mistakes (like trying to use a
fallible coloring rule in a loop without thinking about the possibility
that it will never terminate).
2019-10-10 19:30:04 -07:00
Pirmin Kalberer
df7a3a4863 Store history.txt in user data path 2019-09-19 22:29:11 +02:00
Yehuda Katz
ab915f1c44 Revert "Revert "Migrate most uses of the Span concept to Tag""
This reverts commit bee7c5639c.
2019-09-14 11:30:24 -05:00
Jonathan Turner
bee7c5639c
Revert "Migrate most uses of the Span concept to Tag" 2019-09-11 19:53:05 +12:00
Yehuda Katz
58b7800172 Migrate most uses of the Span concept to Tag
Also migrate mv, rm and commands like that to taking a
SyntaxType::Pattern instead of a SyntaxType::Path for their first
argument.
2019-09-10 20:41:03 -07:00
Andrés N. Robalino
f61144006f config test harness. 2019-09-10 05:08:01 -05:00
Jonathan Turner
dcd97b6346 Move internal terminology to tables/rows 2019-09-06 04:23:42 +12:00