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alias: only allow global options before a shell alias, pass later ones through

This patch refactors the dispatch code to change how arguments to shell aliases
are handled.

A separate "pass" to determine whether a command is a shell alias has been
added. The rough steps dispatch now performs when a command is given are these:

* Parse all arguments up to the command name.

* If any arguments such as --repository or --cwd are given (which could change
  the config file used, and therefore the definition of aliases), they are
  taken into account.

* We determine whether the command is a shell alias.

    * If so, execute the alias. The --repo and --cwd arguments are still in effect.
      Any arguments *after* the command name are passed unchanged through to the
      shell command (and interpolated as normal.

    * If the command is *not* a shell alias, the dispatching is effectively "reset"
      and reparsed as normal in its entirety.

The net effect of this patch is to make shell alias commands behave as you
would expect.

Any arguments you give to a shell alias *after* the alias name are passed
through unchanged. This lets you do something like the following:

    [alias]
    filereleased = !$HG log -r 'descendants(adds("$1")) and tagged()' -l1 $2 $3 $4 $5

    $ hg filereleased hgext/bookmarks.py --style compact

Previously the `--style compact` part would fail because Mercurial would
interpret those arguments as arguments to the alias command itself (which
doesn't take any arguments).

Also: running something like `hg -R ~/src/hg-crew filereleased
hgext/bookmarks.py` when `filereleased` is only defined in that repo's config
will now work.

These global arguments can *only* be given to a shell alias *before* the alias
name.  For example, this will *not* work in the above situation:

    $ hg filereleased -R ~/src/hg-crew hgext/bookmarks.py

The reason for this is that you may want to pass arguments like --repository to
the alias (or, more likely, their short versions like -R):

    [alias]
    own = !chown $@ `$HG root`

    $ hg own steve
    $ hg own -R steve

# help.py - help data for mercurial
#
# Copyright 2006 Matt Mackall <[e-mail]>
#
# This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
# GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.

from i18n import gettext, _
import sys, os
import extensions


def moduledoc(file):
    '''return the top-level python documentation for the given file

    Loosely inspired by pydoc.source_synopsis(), but rewritten to
    handle triple quotes and to return the whole text instead of just
    the synopsis'''
    result = []

    line = file.readline()
    while line[:1] == '#' or not line.strip():
        line = file.readline()
        if not line:
            break

    start = line[:3]
    if start == '"""' or start == "'''":
        line = line[3:]
        while line:
            if line.rstrip().endswith(start):
                line = line.split(start)[0]
                if line:
                    result.append(line)
                break
            elif not line:
                return None # unmatched delimiter
            result.append(line)
            line = file.readline()
    else:
        return None

    return ''.join(result)

def listexts(header, exts, maxlength, indent=1):
    '''return a text listing of the given extensions'''
    if not exts:
        return ''
    result = '\n%s\n\n' % header
    for name, desc in sorted(exts.iteritems()):
        result += '%s%-*s %s\n' % (' ' * indent, maxlength + 2,
                                   ':%s:' % name, desc)
    return result

def extshelp():
    doc = loaddoc('extensions')()

    exts, maxlength = extensions.enabled()
    doc += listexts(_('enabled extensions:'), exts, maxlength)

    exts, maxlength = extensions.disabled()
    doc += listexts(_('disabled extensions:'), exts, maxlength)

    return doc

def loaddoc(topic):
    """Return a delayed loader for help/topic.txt."""

    def loader():
        if hasattr(sys, 'frozen'):
            module = sys.executable
        else:
            module = __file__
        base = os.path.dirname(module)

        for dir in ('.', '..'):
            docdir = os.path.join(base, dir, 'help')
            if os.path.isdir(docdir):
                break

        path = os.path.join(docdir, topic + ".txt")
        return gettext(open(path).read())
    return loader

helptable = [
    (["config", "hgrc"], _("Configuration Files"), loaddoc('config')),
    (["dates"], _("Date Formats"), loaddoc('dates')),
    (["patterns"], _("File Name Patterns"), loaddoc('patterns')),
    (['environment', 'env'], _('Environment Variables'),
     loaddoc('environment')),
    (['revs', 'revisions'], _('Specifying Single Revisions'),
     loaddoc('revisions')),
    (['mrevs', 'multirevs'], _('Specifying Multiple Revisions'),
     loaddoc('multirevs')),
    (['revsets'], _("Specifying Revision Sets"), loaddoc('revsets')),
    (['diffs'], _('Diff Formats'), loaddoc('diffs')),
    (['templating', 'templates'], _('Template Usage'),
     loaddoc('templates')),
    (['urls'], _('URL Paths'), loaddoc('urls')),
    (["extensions"], _("Using additional features"), extshelp),
    (["hgweb"], _("Configuring hgweb"), loaddoc('hgweb')),
    (["glossary"], _("Glossary"), loaddoc('glossary')),
]