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aliases: provide more flexible ways to work with shell alias arguments

This patch changes the functionality of shell aliases to add more powerful
options for working with shell alias arguments.

First: the alias name + arguments to a shell alias are set as an HG_ARGS
environment variable, delimited by spaces. This matches the behavior of hooks.

Second: any occurrences of "$@" (without quotes) are replaced with the
arguments, separated by spaces. This happens *before* the alias gets to the shell.

Third: any positive numeric variables ("$1", "$2", etc) are replaced with the
appropriate argument, indexed from 1. "$0" is replaced with the name of the
alias. Any "extra" numeric variables are replaced with an empty string.  This
happens *before* the alias gets to the shell.

These changes allow for more flexible shell aliases:

    [alias]
    echo = !echo $@
    count = !hg log -r "$@" --template='.' | wc -c | sed -e 's/ //g'
    qqueuemv = !mv "`hg root`/.hg/patches-$1" "`hg root`/.hg/patches-$2"

In action:

    $ hg echo foo
    foo

    $ hg count 'branch(default)'
    901

    $ hg count 'branch(stable) and keyword(fixes)'
    102

    $ hg qqueuemv myfeature somefeature

# 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"], _("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')),
]