• Bring what's shown in the version string in line with my other projects (URL, description, git hash and date for release-mode non-final builds only, potential for colours in the future)
• Show +git or -git depending on feature status
• Tests for the above, and for checking that the command-line flag is warned about
• The spaces between icons and filenames are now coloured too
• Some icons are different
• File sizes are now more accurate
• New help text, which needed a newline at the end
The number of necessary columns was computed by producing a grid in different sizes and see if all columns were used. However, if there was two files and we tried to fit them in a 3-column grid, it would produces three headers and all three columns would be used; when trying a 4-column grid, the two supplementary headers would fill the third column and the fourth would be empty; so 3 columns would be used.
Now, when the grid fits into the terminal and the number of columns is exactly the number of files to display, it returns immediately instead of trying bigger grids.
Fixes GH-436.
This commit remove the extra space that was added between icons and file names in commit 128fadd, and adds an option to put them back.
Re-fixes GH-619 and fixes GH-541.
This commit makes adding icons to file names something that the file name renderer does, rather than something that each individual view does. This is now possible thanks to the previous commit a1869f2, which moved the option to do this into the same module. The repeated code has been removed.
It happens to fix a bug where the width of each column was being incorrectly calculated for the grid-details view, making lines slightly too long for the terminal because the icon wasn't being taken into account.
This commit changes the way the extended test suite is run.
Previously, there was a folder full of outputs, and a script that ran exa repeatedly to check the outputs match. This script was hacked-together, with many problems:
• It stops at the first failure, so if one test fails, you have no idea how many actually failed.
• It also didn't actually show you the diff if one was different, it just checked it.
• It combined stdout and stderr, and didn't test the exit status of exa.
• All the output file names were just whatever I felt like calling the file at the time.
• There is no way to only run a few of the tests — you have to run the whole thing each time.
• There's no feel-good overall view where you see how many tests are passing.
I started writing Specsheet to solve this problem (amongst other problems), and now, three and a half years later, it's finally ready for prime time.
The tests are now defined as data rather than as a script. The outputs have a consistent naming convention (directory_flags.ansitxt), and they check stdout, stderr, and exit status separately. Specsheet also lets simple outputs (empty, non-empty, or one-line error messages) can be written inline rather than needing to be in files.
So even though this pretty much runs the same tests as the run.sh script did, the tests are now more organised, making it easy to see where tests are missing and functionality is not being tested.
This changes the --help text, and gets rid of the special behaviour for --help --long, which I thought was a really good idea at the time, but now I just think it's inconsistent and unexpected behaviour. --help should return the same help, no matter what other arguments you have typed.
Other things:
• Put --help and --version in a section
• Capitalisation consistency
• Alignment
• Move the --octal-permissions line up a bit
• Simplify the printing implementation (HelpString is now a unit struct)
This _finally_ makes all the extended tests pass.
It’s clear that these hadn’t actually been run for a while, and after installing Vagrant again I had to clear out the cobwebs. Necessary changes include:
• Rust is installed differently
• Git-ignored files are now marked
• The help text changed
• Listing a directory symlink shows its contents, requiring a change to the way a directory-symlink test gets run
Ever since env_logger started supporting colours, it doesn’t seem worth it to keep track of what is and isn’t in the log output. So just test that it doesn’t print nothing and call it a day.
Fixes#288, but more-or-less as a side-effect.
The “mi” key in LS_COLORS was meant to be used for a missing link path, but it wasn’t really used like that. There was also a bug where control characters in a broken symlink’s path were assumed to be underlined, because that’s what happened in the default colour scheme, but this assumption doesn’t hold when colours were disabled.
The solution to these was not to introduce another configurable colour code, but to start using _overlays_ to alter a bunch of colours at once. The “mi” code will have to be added back later.
Having it all echo-ed into the file like that made it hard to read *and* hard to maintain. My initial aversion to it was that I didn’t want there to be an executable script in the main repository that only worked when you were in the VM, because people would just run it anyway. But this can be avoided by leaving it non-executable, and having a command in the VM that runs it instead.
This doesn’t *completely* work: it seems to have trouble with ignored paths beginning with slashes, possibly amongst others. Also, .gitignore scanning could be made more efficient.
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.
Raised in #243 and #284. exa isn’t able to override the -t option like this, so the least it can do is detect that case (which is going to be an error case anyway) and show a suggestion.
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”.
