help: improve merge-tools topic, describe --tool and clarify details
This doesn't make it simpler, but it makes it more correct.
With help from erikz, mg and abuehl.
#!/usr/bin/env python
from mercurial import ui, dispatch, error
testui = ui.ui()
parsed = dispatch._parseconfig(testui, [
'values.string=string value',
'values.bool1=true',
'values.bool2=false',
'lists.list1=foo',
'lists.list2=foo bar baz',
'lists.list3=alice, bob',
'lists.list4=foo bar baz alice, bob',
'lists.list5=abc d"ef"g "hij def"',
'lists.list6="hello world", "how are you?"',
'lists.list7=Do"Not"Separate',
'lists.list8="Do"Separate',
'lists.list9="Do\\"NotSeparate"',
'lists.list10=string "with extraneous" quotation mark"',
'lists.list11=x, y',
'lists.list12="x", "y"',
'lists.list13=""" key = "x", "y" """',
'lists.list14=,,,, ',
'lists.list15=" just with starting quotation',
'lists.list16="longer quotation" with "no ending quotation',
'lists.list17=this is \\" "not a quotation mark"',
'lists.list18=\n \n\nding\ndong',
])
print repr(testui.configitems('values'))
print repr(testui.configitems('lists'))
print "---"
print repr(testui.config('values', 'string'))
print repr(testui.config('values', 'bool1'))
print repr(testui.config('values', 'bool2'))
print repr(testui.config('values', 'unknown'))
print "---"
try:
print repr(testui.configbool('values', 'string'))
except error.ConfigError, inst:
print inst
print repr(testui.configbool('values', 'bool1'))
print repr(testui.configbool('values', 'bool2'))
print repr(testui.configbool('values', 'bool2', True))
print repr(testui.configbool('values', 'unknown'))
print repr(testui.configbool('values', 'unknown', True))
print "---"
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list1'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list2'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list3'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list4'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list4', ['foo']))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list5'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list6'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list7'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list8'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list9'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list10'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list11'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list12'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list13'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list14'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list15'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list16'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list17'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'list18'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'unknown'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'unknown', ''))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'unknown', 'foo'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'unknown', ['foo']))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'unknown', 'foo bar'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'unknown', 'foo, bar'))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'unknown', ['foo bar']))
print repr(testui.configlist('lists', 'unknown', ['foo', 'bar']))
print repr(testui.config('values', 'String'))
def function():
pass
# values that aren't strings should work
testui.setconfig('hook', 'commit', function)
print function == testui.config('hook', 'commit')