This feature causes nothing but problems and is frequently broken. The
only optimization it was enabling were SIMD optimizations for
transcoding. In particular, for UTF-16 transcoding. This is performed by
the [`encoding_rs`](https://github.com/hsivonen/encoding_rs) crate,
which specifically uses unstable portable SIMD APIs instead of the
stable non-portable SIMD APIs.
SIMD optimizations that apply to search have long been making use of
stable APIs, and are automatically enabled when your target supports
them. This is, IMO, the correct user experience and one that
`encoding_rs` refuses to support. I'm done dealing with it, so
transcoding will only use scalar code until the SIMD optimizations in
`encoding_rs` work on stable. (This doesn't mean that `encoding_rs` has
to change. This could also be fixed by stabilizing `std::simd`.)
Fixes#2748
In effect, we switch from `path.is_file()` to `!path.is_dir()`. In cases
where process substitution is used, for example, the path can actually
have type "fifo" instead of "file." Even if it's a fifo, we want to
treat it as-if it were a file. The real key here is that we basically
always want to consider a lone argument as a file so long as we know it
isn't a directory. Because a directory is the only thing that will
causes us to (potentially) search more than one thing.
Fixes#2736
- Stop using `-n __fish_use_subcommand`. This had the effect of
ignoring options if a positional argument has already been given, but
that's not how ripgrep works.
- Only suggest negation options if the option they're negating is
passed (e.g., only complete `--no-pcre2` if `--pcre2` is present). The
zsh completions already do this.
- Take into account whether an option takes an argument. If an option
is not a switch then it won't suggest further options until the
argument is given, e.g. `-C<tab>` won't suggest options but `-i<tab>`
will.
- Suggest correct arguments for options. We already completed a fixed
set of choices where available, but now we go further:
- Filenames are only suggested for options that take filenames.
- `--pre` and `--hostname-bin` suggest binaries from `$PATH`.
- `-t`/`--type`/&c use `--type-list` for suggestions, like in zsh,
with a preview of the glob patterns.
- `--encoding` uses a hardcoded list extracted from the zsh
completions. This has been refactored into a separate file, and the
range globs (`{1..5}`) replaced by comma globs (`{1,2,3,4,5}`) since
those work in both shells. I verified that this produces the same
list as before in zsh, and the same list in fish (albeit in a
different order).
PR #2684
This is an embarrassing oversight. A `todo!()` actually made its way
into a release! Oof.
This was working in ripgrep 13, but I had redone some aspects of sorting
and this just got left undone.
Fixes#2664
And also, negated options don't take arguments.
Specifically, the fish completion generator currently forgets to add
`-l` to negation options, leading to a list of these errors:
complete: too many arguments
~/.config/fish/completions/rg.fish (line 146):
complete -c rg -n '__fish_use_subcommand' no-sort-files -d '(DEPRECATED) Sort results by file path.'
^
from sourcing file ~/.config/fish/completions/rg.fish
(Type 'help complete' for related documentation)
To reproduce, run `fish -c 'rg --generate=complete-fish | source'`.
It also potentially suggests a list of choices for negation options,
even though those never take arguments. That case doesn't occur with
any of the current options but it's an easy fix.
Fixes#2659, Closes#2655
We look for similar flag names via Jaccard index on ngrams. In my
experience this tends to work better than Levenshtein or other edit
distance based metrics. Principally because it allows for out-of-order
suggestions. For example, --case-smart will result in a suggestion for
--smart-case, even though the edit distance between them is pretty big.
This is something Clap did for us. I initially thought it wasn't
necessary to add this back in, but I realized it wouldn't be much work
and might actually be helpful to folks.
Basically, unless the -a/--text flag is given, it is generally always an
error to search for an explicit NUL byte because the binary detection
will prevent it from matching.
Fixes#1838
The --vimgrep flag has some severe footguns when using a pattern that
matches very frequently. We had already written some docs to warn about
that, but now we also include a suggestion to avoid exorbitant heap
usage.
Closes#2505
This adds info about whether PCRE2 is available or not to the output of
--version. Essentially, --version now subsumes --pcre2-version, although
we do retain the former because it (usefully) emits an exit code based
on whether PCRE2 is available or not.
Closes#2645
When one does not provide any paths to ripgrep to search, it has to
guess between searching stdin and the current working directory. It is
possible for this guess to be wrong, and having the heuristics and the
choice in the debug logs is useful for diagnosing this.
The failure mode here is still pretty bad because you need to know to
reach for the `--debug` flag in the first place. Namely, the typical
failure mode is that ripgrep tries to search stdin while the intent is
for it to search the current working directory, and thus likely blocking
forever waiting for data on stdin.
(Arguably this is a problem with the process architecture that invokes
ripgrep. It shouldn't give ripgrep an open stdin handle that isn't
closed.)
Closes#2524
I introduced a regression in the migration off of the clap by having
both the buffer writer and the printer be responsible for printing file
separators in multi-threaded search. The buffer writer owns that
responsibility in multi-threaded search.
ripgrep began it's life with docopt for argument parsing. Then it moved
to Clap and stayed there for a number of years. Clap has served ripgrep
well, and it probably could continue to serve ripgrep well, but I ended
up deciding to move off of it.
Why?
The first time I had the thought of moving off of Clap was during the
2->3->4 transition. I thought the 3.x and 4.x releases were great, but
for me, it ended up moving a little too quickly. Since the release of
4.x was telegraphed around when 3.x came out, I decided to just hold off
and wait to migrate to 4.x instead of doing a 3.x migration followed
shortly by another 4.x migration. Of course, I just never ended up doing
the migration at all. I never got around to it and there just wasn't a
compelling reason for me to upgrade. While I never investigated it, I
saw an upgrade as a non-trivial amount of work in part because I didn't
encapsulate the usage of Clap enough.
The above is just what got me started thinking about it. It wasn't
enough to get me to move off of it on its own. What ended up pushing me
over the edge was a combination of factors:
* As mentioned above, I didn't want to run on the migration treadmill.
This has proven to not be much of an issue, but at the time of the
2->3->4 releases, I didn't know how long Clap 4.x would be out before a
5.x would come out.
* The release of lexopt[1] caught my eye. IMO, that crate demonstrates
exactly how something new can arrive on the scene and just thoroughly
solve a problem minimalistically. It has the docs, the reasoning, the
simple API, the tests and good judgment. It gets all the weird corner
cases right that Clap also gets right (and is part of why I was
originally attracted to Clap).
* I have an overall desire to reduce the size of my dependency tree. In
part because a smaller dependency tree tends to correlate with better
compile times, but also in part because it reduces my reliance and trust
on others. It lets me be the "master" of ripgrep's destiny by reducing
the amount of behavior that is the result of someone else's decision
(whether good or bad).
* I perceived that Clap solves a more general problem than what I
actually need solved. Despite the vast number of flags that ripgrep has,
its requirements are actually pretty simple. We just need simple
switches and flags that support one value. No multi-value flags. No
sub-commands. And probably a lot of other functionality that Clap has
that makes it so flexible for so many different use cases. (I'm being
hand wavy on the last point.)
With all that said, perhaps most importantly, the future of ripgrep
possibly demands a more flexible CLI argument parser. In today's world,
I would really like, for example, flags like `--type` and `--type-not`
to be able to accumulate their repeated values into a single sequence
while respecting the order they appear on the CLI. For example, prior
to this migration, `rg regex-automata -Tlock -ttoml` would not return
results in `Cargo.lock` in this repository because the `-Tlock` always
took priority even though `-ttoml` appeared after it. But with this
migration, `-ttoml` now correctly overrides `-Tlock`. We would like to
do similar things for `-g/--glob` and `--iglob` and potentially even
now introduce a `-G/--glob-not` flag instead of requiring users to use
`!` to negate a glob. (Which I had done originally to work-around this
problem.) And some day, I'd like to add some kind of boolean matching to
ripgrep perhaps similar to how `git grep` does it. (Although I haven't
thought too carefully on a design yet.) In order to do that, I perceive
it would be difficult to implement correctly in Clap.
I believe that this last point is possible to implement correctly in
Clap 2.x, although it is awkward to do so. I have not looked closely
enough at the Clap 4.x API to know whether it's still possible there. In
any case, these were enough reasons to move off of Clap and own more of
the argument parsing process myself.
This did require a few things:
* I had to write my own logic for how arguments are combined into one
single state object. Of course, I wanted this. This was part of the
upside. But it's still code I didn't have to write for Clap.
* I had to write my own shell completion generator.
* I had to write my own `-h/--help` output generator.
* I also had to write my own man page generator. Well, I had to do this
with Clap 2.x too, although my understanding is that Clap 4.x supports
this. With that said, without having tried it, my guess is that I
probably wouldn't have liked the output it generated because I
ultimately had to write most of the roff by hand myself to get the man
page I wanted. (This also had the benefit of dropping the build
dependency on asciidoc/asciidoctor.)
While this is definitely a fair bit of extra work, it overall only cost
me a couple days. IMO, that's a good trade off given that this code is
unlikely to change again in any substantial way. And it should also
allow for more flexible semantics going forward.
Fixes#884, Fixes#1648, Fixes#1701, Fixes#1814, Fixes#1966
[1]: https://docs.rs/lexopt/0.3.0/lexopt/index.html
