v4.4 features two new builtins, improvements in testing, and automatic generation of autocompletion suggestions backed by man page parsing. Plus there has been a lot of focus on improving readline responsiveness
None
su integration for Linux$GOPATH is no longer required to run unit
testscd $GOPATH/...)vi ~/file.txt)None
f1 should work even outside of
autocompletealt+1..9 hotkeys replaced
with shift+f1..f12. Changed
because alt+numeric rarely worked (read
more)None
@IncManPages autocomplete value for
Dynamic directive renamed to @IncManPage,
like the IncManPage directiveconfig option removed.
This actually doesn’t break anything, just produces a warning. The
config option was also undocumented and experimentalf1 while
autocomplete is open to use (read more)onCommandCompletion interrupt
(this field was never documented)round, which can perform rounding
operations on numerical inputs (#630, read more)man-get-flags now includes a -d /
--description flag to expose the improved man page
parserreturn, which exits a given function
scope (eg function, private,
Dynamic block in autocomplete,
etc)git autocompletionsfind autocompletions added/integrations directory added to Murex source, the
aim of which is to make it easier for people to contribute
autocompletions and other integrations with common command line tools
(Github)ctrl+left /
ctrl+right (PC)option+left /
option+right (Mac)test would always run first in any block, regardless
of the preferred order of execution. This was because
test (unit|state|config) required altering the execution
state of the shell. The drawback was that
test (run|define|report) would also run unexpectedly. This
lead to hacks like try { test run * } to force the correct
order of operations. Now the parameters of test are checked
to determine when to execute the builtin.int types couldn’t be compared against
num types with >, >=,
<, <= operators^d will not send EOF if line is not empty.
The original behaviour was by design however after pressing
^d a few too many times when I intended to press
^f or ^r, I decided the original design was
wrongFileRef wasn’t being set in test. This
caused some tests to fail if they called private functions~/.ssh/config exists before trying to parse it
in getHostsFile private (used for SSH and similar tools
autocompletions)configconfig)Published: 27.07.2023 at 23:12
return): Exits current function scopeexpr):
Expressions: mathematical, string comparisons, logical operatorsevent): Event driven programming for shell
scriptsman-get-flags): Parses man page files for command line
flagsprivate): Define a private function blockfunction): Define a function blockround): Round a number by a user defined
precisionconfig): Query or define Murex runtime settingstest): Murex’s test framework - define tests, run
tests and debug shell scriptsautocomplete): Set definitions for tab-completion in
the command lineint: Whole number
(primitive)num (number): Floating
point number (primitive)onCommandCompletion:
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