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diff mercurial/help/templates.txt @ 34535:78590585c0db
templater: add dot operator to easily access a sub item
This and the next patch will allow us to access a deeply-nested item
by foo.bar.baz syntax.
| author | Yuya Nishihara <yuya@tcha.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Sat, 09 Sep 2017 19:32:56 +0900 |
| parents | 61b60b28c381 |
| children | 4c1cfe54c08d |
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--- a/mercurial/help/templates.txt Sat Sep 09 19:13:25 2017 +0900 +++ b/mercurial/help/templates.txt Sat Sep 09 19:32:56 2017 +0900 @@ -72,6 +72,11 @@ To prevent it from being interpreted, you can use an escape character ``\{`` or a raw string prefix, ``r'...'``. +The dot operator can be used as a shorthand for accessing a sub item: + +- ``expr.member`` is roughly equivalent to ``expr % "{member}"`` if ``expr`` + returns a non-list/dict. The returned value is not stringified. + Aliases =======