help: avoid using "$n" parameter in revsetalias example
Because parsing "$n" requires a crafted tokenizer, it exists only for backward
compatibility (as documented in revset._tokenizealias.) This patch updates the
examples so that users are encouraged to use symbolic names instead of "$n"s.
I'm going to implement alias expansion in templater, which won't support "$n"
parameters to make my life easier. Templater is more complicated than revset
because tokenizer and parser call each other.
--- a/mercurial/help/revsets.txt Sun Apr 17 10:39:17 2016 -0700
+++ b/mercurial/help/revsets.txt Sat Mar 26 18:50:56 2016 +0900
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
<alias> = <definition>
in the ``revsetalias`` section of a Mercurial configuration file. Arguments
-of the form `$1`, `$2`, etc. are substituted from the alias into the
+of the form `a1`, `a2`, etc. are substituted from the alias into the
definition.
For example,
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@
[revsetalias]
h = heads()
- d($1) = sort($1, date)
- rs($1, $2) = reverse(sort($1, $2))
+ d(s) = sort(s, date)
+ rs(s, k) = reverse(sort(s, k))
defines three aliases, ``h``, ``d``, and ``rs``. ``rs(0:tip, author)`` is
exactly equivalent to ``reverse(sort(0:tip, author))``.
@@ -85,14 +85,14 @@
one string. For example::
[revsetalias]
- issue($1) = grep(r'\bissue[ :]?' ## $1 ## r'\b|\bbug\(' ## $1 ## r'\)')
+ issue(a1) = grep(r'\bissue[ :]?' ## a1 ## r'\b|\bbug\(' ## a1 ## r'\)')
``issue(1234)`` is equivalent to ``grep(r'\bissue[ :]?1234\b|\bbug\(1234\)')``
in this case. This matches against all of "issue 1234", "issue:1234",
"issue1234" and "bug(1234)".
All other prefix, infix and postfix operators have lower priority than
-``##``. For example, ``$1 ## $2~2`` is equivalent to ``($1 ## $2)~2``.
+``##``. For example, ``a1 ## a2~2`` is equivalent to ``(a1 ## a2)~2``.
Command line equivalents for :hg:`log`::