rules.md

Writing Rules

Rule files placed under rules in the project directory are parsed at compilation, everything is parsed to Rust code before compiling. You don't have to know the project structure nor Rust to write blazing fast rules!

For compile-time rules, if only rules are changed, cargo won't recompile the project because Rust code were intact. You will have to notify it manually by:

touch core/src/rules.rs && cargo build

Runtime-rules support is provided by runtime-rules module. Directories are searched with the following priority:

• XDG_CONFIG_HOME, defaults to $HOME/.config.
• XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, defaults to /etc/xdg.
• XDG_DATA_DIRS, defaults to /usr/local/share:/usr/share.

The actual rule file should be placed under pay-respects/rules/, for example: ~/.config/pay-respects/rules/cargo.toml. Note that for runtime rules, the name of the file MUST match the command name.

Syntax

Syntax of a rule file:

# the name of the command
command = "helloworld"

# you can add as many `[[match_err]]` section as you want
[[match_err]]
# Note:
# - patterns must be in lowercase
# - patterns should be the output with `LC_ALL=C` environment variable
pattern = [
	"pattern 1",
	"pattern 2"
]
# if pattern is matched, suggest changing the first argument to fix:
suggest = [
'''
{{command[0]}} fix {{command[2:]}} '''
]

[[match_err]]
pattern = [
	"pattern 1"
]
# this will add a `sudo` before the command if:
# - the `sudo` is found as executable
# - the last command does not contain `sudo`
suggest = [
'''
#[executable(sudo), !cmd_contains(sudo)]
sudo {{command}} '''
]

The placeholder is evaluated as following:

• {{command}}: All the command without any modification
• {{command[1]}}: The first argument of the command (the command itself has index of 0)
  • Negative values will count from reverse.
• {{command[2:5]}}: The second to fifth arguments
  • If any of the side is not specified, then it defaults to the start (if it is left) or the end (if it is right)
• {{typo[2](fix1, fix2)}}: Try to change the second argument to candidates in the parenthesis.
  • The argument in parentheses must have at least 2 values
  • Single arguments are reserved for specific matches, for instance, path to search all commands found in the $PATH environment, or the {{shell}} placeholder, among others
• {{select[3](selection1, selection2)}}: A derivative of typo placeholder. Will create a suggestion for each selection in the parenthesis
  • The argument in parentheses also must have at least 2 values
  • Single arguments are reserved for specific selections, for instance, path to search all commands found in the $PATH environment with the minimum shared linguistic distance, or the {{shell}} placeholder
  • To avoid permutations and combinations, only one instance is evaluated. If you need to apply the same selection in multiple places, use {{selection}}
  • Index is optional as it only has effect when using with path, and defaults to 0
• {{opt::<Regular Expression>}}: Optional patterns captured in the command with RegEx (see regex crate for syntax)
  • All patterns matching this placeholder will be removed from indexing
• {{cmd::<Regular Expression>}}: Get the matching captures from the last command
  • Unlike {{opt}}, this won't remove the string after matching
• {{err::<Regular Expression}}: Get the matching captures from the error message
• {{shell(<shell commands>)}}: Replace with the output of the shell command
  • Can be used along {{typo}} or {{select}} as its only argument, where each newline will be evaluated to a candidate/selection

Suggestions can have additional conditions to check. To specify conditions, add a #[...] at the first line (just like derive macros in Rust). Available conditions:

• executable: Check whether the argument can be found in path
• cmd_contains: Check whether the last user input contains the argument
• err_contains: Check whether the error of the command contains the argument
• length: Check whether the given command has the length of the argument
• min_length: Check whether the given command has at least the length of the argument
• max_length: Check whether the given command has at most the length of the argument
• shell: Check if the current running shell is the argument