For some reason, the code that calculated the width of a cell with a path in counted the width of the path twice: once from the ANSIStrings containing it, and once more added on afterwards. This meant that the grid view thought that columns were wider than they really were, meaning fewer could be fit into a grid.
This turns `file` into `self.file` and `colours` into `self.colours`, but it means we don’t need to pass arguments everywhere, which will be more of a problem the more functions there are.
Most of the code has just been indented.
exa deals with cells and widths a lot: the items in a grid need to be aligned according to their *contents’* widths, rather than the length of their strings, which often included ANSI escape characters. As an optimisation, it used to calculate this separately based on the filename, and dealing with any extra characters (such as the classify ones) in that function too.
Recently, though, file names have become a lot more complicated. Classification added zero to one extra characters, and now with escaped control characters in file names, it’s not so easy to calculate the display width of a filename.
This commit removes the function that calculated the width, in favour of building the output string (it’s going to be displayed anyway) and just getting the width of what it displays instead.
This makes the Colours value pick a colour based on the size of the file, instead of necessarily having them all green. (They are all green for now, though.)
See #97 and recently #130 too.
This allows the user to pass in options such as "--ignore '*.pyc'" to not list any files ending in '.pyc' in the output. It uses the Rust glob crate and currently does a simple split on pipe, without any escaping, so it’s not really *complete*, but is at least something.
This commit removes the 'main' function present in main.rs, renames it to exa.rs, and puts the 'main' function in its own binary. This, I think, makes it more clear how the program works and where the main entry point is.
Librarification also means that we can start testing as a whole. Two tests have been added that test everything, passing in raw command-line arguments then comparing against the binary coloured text that gets produced.
Casualties include having to specifically mark some code blocks in documentation as 'tests', as rustdoc kept on trying to execute my ANSI art.
This commit moves file, dir, and the feature modules into one parent 'fs' module. Now there are three main 'areas' of the code: main and options, the filesystem-touching code, and the output-displaying code.
It should be the case that nothing in 'output' touches 'std::fs'.
This commit changes all the views to accommodate printing each path's prefix, if it has one.
Previously, each file was stripped of its ancestry, leaving only its file name to be displayed. So running "exa /usr/bin/*" would display only filenames, while running "ls /usr/bin/*" would display each file prefixed with "/usr/bin/". But running "ls /usr/bin/" -- without the glob -- would run ls on just the directory, printing out the file names with no prefix or anything.
This functionality turned out to be useful in quite a few situations: firstly, if the user passes in files from different directories, it would be hard to tell where they came from (especially if they have the same name, such as find | xargs). Secondly, this also applied when following symlinks, making it unclear exactly which file a symlink would be pointing to.
The reason that it did it this way beforehand was that I didn't think of these use-cases, rather than for any technical reason; this new method should not have any drawbacks save making the output slightly wider in a few cases. Compatibility with ls is also a big plus.
Fixes#104, and relates to #88 and #92.
This fixes a bug where extra sorting options (dirs first, reverse) were not applied when listing in long mode. In other words, fixes#105.
The bug occurred because the sorting function only took Files, but the details view uses File eggs that only contain Files. This commit changes the sorting function to accept anything that AsRefs to File, and impls that on both File and Egg so the same function works for both.
Thinking about it, it doesn't make sense to use an *external* time zone source when the program we want to compare it to, ls, uses the system one. So just use the system one.
Also, handle the case where the time zone data file can't be loaded by showing the files in UTC rather than falling over and quitting.
Something about these seemed to be causing a crash on Travis (build 327)... I have no idea what would set it off, but this makes the code better anyway.
- Users v0.5.1, which renames OSUsers to UsersCache
- Locale v0.2, which returns to libc v0.1
- Datetime v0.4.2, which mimics the locale update, and puts timezone definitions in:
- Zoneinfo-data, which is needed to obtain the current timezone
The `--long` flag should show the '@' character in the permissions list if that feature has been compiled in, but only the `--extended` flag should actually show their keys, rather than just their presence.
This makes use of a change in the `users` crate to change which parts of exa's code are accessed under a `Mutex`. The change is that the methods on `Users` can now take just `&self`, instead of `&mut self`. This has a knock-on effect in exa, as many methods now don't need to take a mutable `&self`, meaning that the Mutex can be moved to only containing the users information instead of having to be queried for *every column*. This means that threading should now be a lot faster, as fewer parts have to be executed on a single thread.
The main change to facilitate this is that `Table`'s structure has changed: everything environmental that gets loaded at the beginning is now in an `Environment` struct, which can be mocked out if necessary, as one of `Table`'s fields. (They were kind of in a variety of places before.)
Casualties include having to make some of the test code more verbose, as it explicitly takes the columns and environment as references rather than values, and those both need to be put on the stack beforehand. Also, all the colours are now hidden behind an `opts` field, so a lot of the rendering code is more verbose too (but not greatly so).
This commit separates the code used to generate the tree structure characters from the code used to build tables, meaning that it'll become possible to display tree structures without using any of the table code.
Also, some tests are added to make sure that the tree code *basically* works.
This commit moves the colours module to be a sub-module of the output one.
This makes sense because finding which colour a certain file should be is only
done during output, and (I think) the only places that the `Colours` struct's
fields are ever queried is from the output module.
The only casualty was that the `file_colour` from the filetype module had to
be moved, as determining colours is no longer part of that module - only
determining filetype is. So it now reflects its name!
The benefit of this is that it make it possible to convert text cell contents
vectors into text cells with a method (see next commit). Casualties include
having to call `.into()` on vectors everywhere, which I'm not convinced is a
bad thing.
Because, strictly speaking, it's not a length, it's a width!
Also, re-order some struct constructors so that they're no longer
order-dependent (it's no longer the case that a value will be borrowed for one
field then consumed in another, meaning they have to be ordered in a certain
way to compile. Now the value is just worked out beforehand and the fields can
be specified in any order)
By removing the `File#file_name_width` method, we can make the file module
have no dependency on the output module -- in other words, the model (file)
and the view (output) are now separate again!
This commit introduces the `output::cell::DisplayWidth` struct, which
encapsulates the Unicode *display width* of a string in a struct that makes it
less easily confused with the *length* of a string.
The use of this type means that it's now harder to accidentally use a string's
length-in-bytes as its width. I've fixed at least one case in the code where
this was being done!
The only casualty is that it introduces a dependency on the output module from
the file module, which will be removed next commit.
A recent change to ansi-term [1] means that `ANSIString`s can now hold either
owned *or* borrowed data (Rust calls this the Cow type). This means that we
can delay formatting ANSIStrings into ANSI-control-code-formatted strings
until it's absolutely necessary. The process for doing this was:
1. Replace the `Cell` type with a `TextCell` type that holds a vector of
`ANSIString` values instead of a formatted string. It still does the
width tracking.
2. Rework the details module's `render` functions to emit values of this
type.
3. Similarly, rework the functions that produce cells containing filenames
to use a `File` value's `name` field, which is an owned `String` that
can now be re-used.
4. Update the printing, formatting, and width-calculating code in the
details and grid-details views to produce a table by adding vectors
together instead of adding strings together, delaying the formatting as
long as it can.
This results in fewer allocations (as fewer `String` values are produced), and
makes the API tidier (as fewer `String` values are being passed around without
having their contents specified).
This also paves the way to Windows support, or at least support for
non-ANSI terminals: by delaying the time until strings are formatted,
it'll now be easier to change *how* they are formatted.
Casualties include:
- Bump to ansi_term v0.7.1, which impls `PartialEq` and `Debug` on
`ANSIString`.
- The grid_details and lines views now need to take a vector of files, rather
than a borrowed slice, so the filename cells produced now own the filename
strings that get taken from files.
- Fixed the signature of `File#link_target` to specify that the
file produced refers to the same directory, rather than some phantom
directory with the same lifetime as the file. (This was wrong from the
start, but it broke nothing until now)
References:
[1]: ansi-term@f6a6579ba8174de1cae64d181ec04af32ba2a4f0
One of those two date formats was re-compiled before any date was displayed. Now they are compiled only the first time they're used, and cached versions are used thereafter, resulting in a speedup.
Technically speaking, picking which timestamp to show for a file is a function of an output module, rather than the file itself. This also means that the `output::column` and `file` modules are now completely separate.
This cleans up the options module, moving the structs that were *only* in use for the columns view out of it.
The new OptionSet trait is used to add the ‘deduce’ methods that used to be present on the values.
this commit fixes below type mismatch error:
```
src/output/details.rs:585:49: 585:60 error: mismatched types:
expected `i64`,
found `i32`
(expected i64,
found i32) [E0308]
src/output/details.rs:585 let date = self.tz.at(LocalDateTime::at(timestamp.0));
^~~~~~~~~~~
src/output/details.rs:585:49: 585:60 help: run `rustc --explain E0308` to see a detailed explanation
error: aborting due to previous error
Could not compile `exa`.
```
The `unused_results` lint was complaining that the results of inserting into a `MockUsers` object weren't being inspected. These are mock users, so all that would be returned is `None` to indicate that they weren't already in the table -- they're fine to ignore! So, suppress the warnings for those two testing modules.
