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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

#!/bin/sh

hg init

cat > .hg/hgrc <<EOF
[extensions]
prefixfilter = prefix.py
[encode]
*.txt = stripprefix: Copyright 2046, The Masters
[decode]
*.txt = insertprefix: Copyright 2046, The Masters
EOF

cat > prefix.py <<EOF
from mercurial import util
def stripprefix(s, cmd, filename, **kwargs):
    header = '%s\n' % cmd
    if s[:len(header)] != header:
        raise util.Abort('missing header "%s" in %s' % (cmd, filename))
    return s[len(header):]
def insertprefix(s, cmd):
    return '%s\n%s' % (cmd, s)
def reposetup(ui, repo):
    repo.adddatafilter('stripprefix:', stripprefix)
    repo.adddatafilter('insertprefix:', insertprefix)
EOF

cat > .hgignore <<EOF
.hgignore
prefix.py
prefix.pyc
EOF

cat > stuff.txt <<EOF
Copyright 2046, The Masters
Some stuff to ponder very carefully.
EOF
hg add stuff.txt
hg ci -m stuff

echo '% Repository data:'
hg cat stuff.txt

echo '% Fresh checkout:'
rm stuff.txt
hg up -C
cat stuff.txt
echo >> stuff.txt <<EOF
Very very carefully.
EOF
hg stat

cat > morestuff.txt <<EOF
Unauthorized material subject to destruction.
EOF

echo '% Problem encoding:'
hg add morestuff.txt
hg ci -m morestuff
hg stat