From 02d414b3ab447e637fef776e387aa5a07293738a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robin Haberkorn Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 15:38:00 +0200 Subject: added command and special Q-Register "$" to set and get the current working directory * FG stands for "Folder Go" * FG behaves similar to a Unix shell `cd`. Without arguments, it changes to the $HOME directory. * The $HOME directory was previously only used by $SCITECOCONFIG on Unix. Now it is documented on its own, since the HOME directory should also be configurable on Windows - e.g. to adapt SciTECO to a MinGW or Cygwin installation. HOME is initialized just like the other environment variables. This also means that now, the $HOME Q-Register is always defined and can be used by platform-agnostic macros. * FG uses a new kind of tab-completion: for directories only. It would be annoying to complete the FG command after every directory, so this tab-completion does not close the command automatically. Theoretically, it would be possible to close the command after completing a directory with no subdirectories, but this is not supported currently. * Filename arguments are no longer completed with " " if {} escaping is in place as this brings no benefit. Instead no completion character is inserted for this escape mode. * "$" was mapped to the current directory to support an elegant way to insert/get the current directory. Also this allows the idiom "[$ FG...new_dir...$ ]$" for changing the current directory temporarily. * The Q-Register stack was extended to support restoring the string part of special Q-Registers (that overwrite the default functionality) when using the "[$" and "]$" commands. * fixed minor typos (american spelling) --- doc/sciteco.7.template | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/sciteco.7.template') diff --git a/doc/sciteco.7.template b/doc/sciteco.7.template index 4fccd33..8272b08 100644 --- a/doc/sciteco.7.template +++ b/doc/sciteco.7.template @@ -443,6 +443,13 @@ Fully completed filenames terminate the string argument, except if the \(lq{\(rq terminator is used. T} T{ +Auto complete directory +T};9;^I, Tab;T{ +Directory arguments +T};T{ +Auto complete directory beginning at the start of the argument. +T} +T{ Auto complete symbol T};9;^I, Tab;T{ Scintilla symbol arguments @@ -1022,6 +1029,26 @@ temporarily: [* ! ...change current buffer... ! ]* .EE .TP +.BR $ " (dollar)" +The process' current working directory (string part). +Its numeric part is currently unused. +The working directory will always be returned as an +absolute path with normalized forward-slash directory +separators. +It is possible to set this register using the \fB^U\fP or +\fBEU\fP commands which will change the current working +directory in a manner similar to the \fBFG\fP command. +This allows you to change the current directory temporarily +with the following idiom: +.EX +[$ ! ...change current directory... ! ]$ +.EE +As with \fBFG\fP, relative directories may be specified +but querying \(lq$\(rq will still return an absolute path. +The \(lq$\(rq register may also be edited but changing its +string contents this way has no effect on the current +working directory. +.TP .BR $ " (Escape)" Command-line replacement register. Its integer part is unused. -- cgit v1.2.3