This was meant to be a small change, but it spiralled into a big one.
The original intention was to separate OptionsResult and OptionsError. With these types separated, the Help and Version variants can only be returned from the Options::parse function, and the later option-parsing functions can only return success or errors.
Also, Misfire was a silly name.
As a side-effect of Options::parse returning OptionsResult instead of Result<Options, Misfire>, we could no longer use unwrap() or unwrap_err() to get the contents out. This commit makes OptionsResult into a value type, and Options::parse a pure function. It feels like it should be one, having its return value entirely dependent on its arguments, but it also loaded locales and time zones. These parts have been moved into lazy_static references, and the code still passes tests without much change.
OptionsResult isn't PartialEq yet, because the file colouring uses a Box internally.
I read through every file and applied a couple of rustfmt suggestions. The brace placement and alignment of items on similar lines has been made consistent, even if neither are rustfmt's default style (a file has been put in place to enforce this). Other changes are:
• Alphabetical imports and modules
• Comma placement at the end of match blocks
• Use newlines and indentation judiciously
• Spaces around associated types
• Spaces after negations (it makes it more clear imho)
• Comment formatting
• Use early-returns and Optional `?` where appropriate
This commit makes changes to the way variables are referenced:
• Make types Copy when possible
• Make methods take `self` instead of `&self` where possible (trivially_copy_pass_by_ref)
• Remove unnecessary borrowing (needless_ref)
• Remove unnecessary cloning (clone_on_copy)
• Remove `ref` from match arms where possible (new Rust match ergonomics)
This commit uses Clippy to fix all the 'use_self' warnings. Using Self instead of the type name has been good Rust style for a while now, and it's become the style I'm used to seeing.
- Checking on a directory doesn’t tell us if supported elsewhere
(some filesystems, like tmpfs, don’t support created time)
- We want to be able to display a column even if some subfiles or
subdirectories don’t support it
So now if unsupported a time of zero is used, and displayed as `-`
This allows printing directory trees without any files, only
showing the structure.
I haven't decided on a letter for the short option.
Implements #401
Add two new sort options `.name` and `.Name` which with ignore a leading
`.` if present on the file name before sorting according to `name` and
`Name`.
This new sort is convenient if you want to list hidden and unhidden
files sorted together.
I changed my mind about which way round sorting by “newest” or by “oldest” should actually go. If you’re listing a large directory, you see the last lines of the output first, so these files should be the ones with the largest whatever the sort field is. It’s about sorting *last*, not sorting *first*. Sorting by size wouldn’t say “sorts smallest files first”, it would say “sorts largest files last”. Right?
Also, add a new suggestion that warns against “ls -lt”.
This commit changes the definition of Arg so that it knows about which values it can accept, and can display them in the help text. They were already being shown in the help text, but they were passed in separately, so one argument could show two different sets of options if it wanted. Now, the argument itself knows whether there are suggestions, so it doesn’t have to be passed in separately.
This means we can use it for other things, including listing choices when an option is missed out, without having to repeat the list.
With Misfire::BadArgument now only having two fields, it’s not worth using a constructor function anymore.
I don’t really see the modified date as the *modified* date, rather just the *date* field, because it’s the date field I refer to like 99.9% of the time. So now it has aliases to match.
Also are included are aliases for the reverse order, because I’d rather write “new” than “the reverse of old”.
This was touched on in #209 where I got the docs wrong compared to the actual implementation, but after thinking about it, I’d like to switch it round. (The --sort=Name and --sort=name difference has also been switched.) See the big ol’ comment for my reasons.
Because this changes core functionality, it broke many, many tests. You can see that this doesn’t change the -star- tests because the shell, rather than exa, orders the globbed files.
I kept on forgetting which way round Sensitive and Insensitive went, so I named them after the effect they have.
The assert_parses function was problematic because it insisted on using assert_eq! to check its contents. This won’t work for any type we want to test that doesn’t implement PartialEq, such as TimeFormat, which holds references to years and date strings and other such.
To go about fixing this, the first step is to change that function so it only does the initial processing, rather than the assertion, which is now done outside of it in the test macros instead.
Now the code actually starts to use the Strictness flag that was added in the earlier commit! Well, the *code* doesn’t, but the tests do: the macros that create the test cases now have a parameter for which tests they should run. It’s usually ‘Both’ for both strict mode and default mode, but can be specified to only run in one, for when the results differ (usually when options override one another)
The downside to strict mode is that, now, *any* call to `matches.has` or `matches.get` could fail, because an option could have been specified twice, and this is the place where those are checked for. This makes the code a little less ergonomic in places, but that’s what the ? operator is for. The only place this has really had an effect is in `Classify::deduce`, which used to just return a boolean but can now fail.
In order to more thoroughly test the mode, some of the older parts of the code can now act more strict. For example, `TerminalColours::deduce` will now use the last-given option rather than searching for “colours” before “colors”.
Help and Version continue doing their own thing.
The value is ignored, but this broke quite a lot of tests that assumed MatchedFlags had only one field.
Parsing tests have to have OsStr flags because I couldn’t get that part working right, but in general, some tests now re-use common functionality too.
This commit gives IgnorePatterns a bunch of constructor methods that mean its option-parsing sister file doesn’t need to know that it’s a vec of glob patterns inside: it can work with anything that iterates over strings. Now, the options module doesn’t need to know about the glob crate.
Originally, both the matched flags and the list of free strings were returned from the parsing function and then passed around to every type that had a ‘deduce’ method. This worked, but the list of free strings was carried around with it, never used.
Now, only the flags are passed around. They’re in a new struct which has the methods the Matches had.
Both of Matches’s fields are now just data, and all of the methods on MatchedFlags don’t ignore any fields, so it’s more cohesive, at least I think that’s the word.
Building up the MatchedFlags is a bit more annoying though because the vector is now hidden behind a field.
This commit removes the dependency on the ‘getopts’ crate entirely, and re-writes all its uses to use the new options parser instead.
As expected there are casualties galore:
- We now need to collect the options into a vector at the start, so we can use references to them, knowing they’ll be stored *somewhere*.
- Because OsString isn’t Display, its Debug impl gets used instead. (This is hopefully temporary)
- Options that take values (such as ‘sort’ or ‘time-style’) now parse those values with ‘to_string_lossy’. The ‘lossy’ part means “I’m at a loss for what to do here”
- Error messages got a lot worse, but “--tree --all --all” is now a special case of error rather than just another Misfire::Useless.
- Some tests had to be re-written to deal with the fact that the parser works with references.
- ParseError loses its lifetime and owns its contents, to avoid having to attach <'a> to Misfire.
- The parser now takes an iterator instead of a slice.
- OsStrings can’t be ‘match’ patterns, so the code devolves to using long Eq chains instead.
- Make a change to the xtest that assumed an input argument with invalid UTF-8 in was always an error to stderr, when that now in fact works!
- Fix a bug in Vagrant where ‘exa’ and ‘rexa’ didn’t properly escape filenames with spaces in.
This commit moves the definitions of Filter and DirAction from the options module to the fs module, but leaves the parts that actually have to do with option parsing alone.
Now, the options module shouldn’t define any types that get used elsewhere in the program: it only adds functionality to types that already exist.
This isn’t perfect, as a file’s type isn’t cached, so it gets recomputed for every comparison in the sort! We can’t go off the file’s `st_mode` flag because it’s not guaranteed to be in any order between systems.
There’s a problem with the tree view where it’ll still recurse through `.` and `..`. But if you were using tree view, would you even need to see them? They’d be in the tree already!
I originally thought that the entries . and .. were in *every* directory entry, and exa was already doing something to filter it out. And then... I could find no such code! Turns out, if we want those entries present, we have to insert them ourselves.
This was harder than expected. Because the file filter doesn’t have access to the parent directory path, it can’t “filter” the files vector by inserting the files at the beginning.
Instead, we do it at the iterator level. A directory can be scanned in three different ways depending on what sort of dotfiles, if any, are wanted. At this point, we already have access to the parent directory’s path, so we can just insert them manually. The enum got moved to the dir module because it’s used most there.
