view hgext/alias.py @ 7012:78341ea65d16

restructure helptable

When looking up a help topic, the key is now only matched against the
short names for each topic, and not the header. So

  hg help 'Environment Variables'

must be replaced with

  hg help env

# Copyright (C) 2007 Brendan Cully <[e-mail]>
# This file is published under the GNU GPL.

'''allow user-defined command aliases

To use, create entries in your hgrc of the form

[alias]
mycmd = cmd --args
'''

from mercurial.cmdutil import findcmd, UnknownCommand, AmbiguousCommand
from mercurial import commands
from mercurial.i18n import _

cmdtable = {}

class RecursiveCommand(Exception): pass

class lazycommand(object):
    '''defer command lookup until needed, so that extensions loaded
    after alias can be aliased'''
    def __init__(self, ui, name, target):
        self._ui = ui
        self._name = name
        self._target = target
        self._cmd = None

    def __len__(self):
        self._resolve()
        return len(self._cmd)

    def __getitem__(self, key):
        self._resolve()
        return self._cmd[key]

    def __iter__(self):
        self._resolve()
        return self._cmd.__iter__()

    def _resolve(self):
        if self._cmd is not None:
            return

        try:
            self._cmd = findcmd(self._ui, self._target, commands.table)[1]
            if self._cmd == self:
                raise RecursiveCommand()
            if self._target in commands.norepo.split(' '):
                commands.norepo += ' %s' % self._name
            return
        except UnknownCommand:
            msg = _('*** [alias] %s: command %s is unknown') % \
                  (self._name, self._target)
        except AmbiguousCommand:
            msg = _('*** [alias] %s: command %s is ambiguous') % \
                  (self._name, self._target)
        except RecursiveCommand:
            msg = _('*** [alias] %s: circular dependency on %s') % \
                  (self._name, self._target)
        def nocmd(*args, **opts):
            self._ui.warn(msg + '\n')
            return 1
        nocmd.__doc__ = msg
        self._cmd = (nocmd, [], '')
        commands.norepo += ' %s' % self._name

def uisetup(ui):
    for cmd, target in ui.configitems('alias'):
        if not target:
            ui.warn(_('*** [alias] %s: no definition\n') % cmd)
            continue
        args = target.split(' ')
        tcmd = args.pop(0)
        if args:
            ui.setconfig('defaults', cmd, ' '.join(args))
        cmdtable[cmd] = lazycommand(ui, cmd, tcmd)