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.
If a function returns one of several enum variants, but we’re only interested in one, then just return its contents and have it apply the Mode “wrapper” later.
These two fields were originally needed to determine how to recurse when using tree view.
However, as there was no distinction between the “options parsed from the command-line” Details and the “values needed to render a table” Details, these had to be threaded through the options parser as a special-case to end up in the right struct.
No more! Because there are separate structs for options and rendering, we can just add them in later.
Instead of having render methods on the types that are now called Options, create new Render structs (one per view) and execute them. This means that it’s easier to extract methods from them — some of them are pretty long.
Also, remove the GridDetails struct, which got consumed by Mode (mostly)
By introducing another indirection between the structs that command-line options get parsed into and the structs that get rendered, it should be easier to refactor that horrible function in view.rs.
Now that colours don’t depend on a previously-calculated “should we be using colours” boolean anymore, their entire deduce function can be done separately to the mode’s one.
exa assumed that the COLUMNS environment variable being present always meant that the output was to a terminal, so it should use colours. But because this variable can be overridden, colours were being incorrectly set!
The ‘fix’ is to stop trying to be clever while only calculating the terminal width once, and instead just stick it in a lazy_static so it’s usable everywhere.
All four view types — lines, grid, details, and grid-details — held their own colours and classify flags.
This didn’t make any sense for the grid-details view, which had to pick which one to use: the values were in there twice.
It also gave the Table in the details view access to more information than it really should have had.
Now, those two flags are returned separately from the view “mode”, which is the new term for one of those four things.
By parsing OsStrings rather than Strings, it’s the getopts crate that’s doing the UTF-8 checking rather than us, so if one of them isn’t valid, it’ll just fail to parse rather than crash exa.
Also, save a few allocations here and there.
This makes it possible to use them in scripts. Also, I couldn’t find any other program returned a different error code! So it’s being changed to 0.
Fixed#180.
The old option descriptions were all written at different times, and needed some consistency. This makes everything consistent between the help text, README, man page, and shell completions, and fixes some mistakes made when writing them.
This also adds the missing options to the man page, fixing #175.
This adds an option (always on at the moment) to use a colour scale of green to yellow to orange for the file size field instead of always green. See #65.
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.
Now when you do `--sort time` instead of saying "unknown option --sort
time" it will say "unknown options '--sort time' (choices: name...)"
with all legal options.
This also adds the legal values to the default help text.
The original options was becoming a bit unwieldy, and would have been even more so if I added the same amount of comments. So this commit splits it up.
There's no extra hiding going on here, or rearranging things within the module: (almost) everything now has to be marked 'pub' to let other sub-modules in the new options module to see it.
