recent shell efforts

well, the foundation has been laid down for the next phase of tpsh development. Branch 'parserlexer' is basically setup to deal with the changes in tpsh_parse, tpsh_lex, and the switch from singular command line execution to enqueued command execution.

The new quote handling is actually quite a bit better, if buggy for now. The sh_eval() functions mostly become dead weight; coupled with the behaviour changes in tpsh_{parse,lex} behaviour the source, ., and eval built-ins (and anything relaying on them) are temporarily broken; as is tpsh -c 'cmdstr' until things are further integrated. Pipes also no longer work, since the command resolution doesn't know how to deal with the command queue yet lol. Fixing 1 subroutine should will fix most breakages.

The idea is more or less that a command like

$EDITOR -o f1 f2 f3; cat f1 f2 f3 | sort -args | sed 's/x/y/g' > /tmp/q

becomes this:

     ( ['vim', '-o', 'f1', 'f2', 'f3'],
       ['cat', 'f1', 'f2', 'f3, '|'], 
       ['sort', ',-args', '|'], 
       ['sed', 's/x/y/g', '>', '/tmp/q'] )

and the trailing '|' symbols would be used to indicate that the current element should be joined with the next (in a non technical sense that is) until the end of pipes is reached; recreating the pipeline (in so far as what happens).


The line is parsed into tokens, then analyzed and formed into a more interesting set of elements like the above array of array references; where the array refs are the argument vector (argv) of the commands to be passed onto pexec() or other suitable function. Previously the line was just parsed and dropped onto resolve_cmd() to figure out if it's a pipe based, i/o redirection based, built-in, or external command; based on the scalar line or argument vector resulting from expansions.


the master branch remains the stable line for now until this topic branch is finished with.