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We use `trap` to bootstrap our installation function (__bp_install). We
remove our code upon first execution but need to restore any preexisting
trap calls. We previously used `sed` to process the trap string, but
that had two downsides:
1. `sed` is an external command dependency. It needs to exist on the
system, and we need to invoke it in a subshell (which has some
runtime cost).
2. The regular expression pattern was imperfect and didn't handle
trickier cases like `'` characters in the trap string:
$ (trap "echo 'hello'" DEBUG; trap -p DEBUG)
hello
trap -- 'echo '\''hello'\''' DEBUG
This change removes the dependency on `sed` by locally evaluating the
trap string and extracting any prior trap. This works reliably because
we control the format our trap string, which looks like this (with
newlines expanded):
__bp_trap_string="$(trap -p DEBUG)"
trap - DEBUG
__bp_install
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| # note setting this causes BATS to mis-report the failure line when this test fails | ||
| trap "foo && echo 'hello' >/dev/null" debug |
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The previous sed-based pattern would fail with more complex cases like this.
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We use `trap` to bootstrap our installation function (__bp_install). We
remove our code upon first execution but need to restore any preexisting
trap calls. We previously used `sed` to process the trap string, but
that had two downsides:
1. `sed` is an external command dependency. It needs to exist on the
system, and we need to invoke it in a subshell (which has some runtime
cost).
2. The regular expression pattern was imperfect and didn't handle
trickier cases like `'` characters in the trap string:
$ (trap "echo 'hello'" DEBUG; trap -p DEBUG)
hello
trap -- 'echo '\''hello'\''' DEBUG
This change removes the dependency on `sed` by locally evaluating the
trap string and extracting any prior trap. This works reliably because
we control the format our trap string, which looks like this (with
newlines expanded):
__bp_trap_string="$(trap -p DEBUG)"
trap - DEBUG
__bp_install
Upstream: rcaloras/bash-preexec#170
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As a proof point, Ghostty 1.1.0 shipped with this change to its bundled bash-preexec, and we haven't heard of any issues through the pre- or post-release period yet. |
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https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec/releases/tag/0.6.0 This is a small update for us because we've been using a patched version of this script in Ghostty for some time, and the 0.6.0 release includes most of the local changes we made as part of maintaining and improving our bash shell integration. - rcaloras/bash-preexec#167 - rcaloras/bash-preexec#170 We continue to maintain one local HISTCONTROL-related modification (ghostty-org#2478). There are a few upstream conversations related to HISTCONTROL that might eliminate the need for this local patch, so we may revisit that in the future.
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https://github.com/rcaloras/bash-preexec/releases/tag/0.6.0 This is a small update for us because we've been using a patched version of this script in Ghostty for some time, and the 0.6.0 release includes most of the local changes we made as part of maintaining and improving our bash shell integration. - rcaloras/bash-preexec#167 - rcaloras/bash-preexec#170 We continue to maintain one local HISTCONTROL-related modification (#2478). There are a few upstream conversations related to HISTCONTROL that might eliminate the need for this local patch, so we may revisit that in the future.
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We use
trapto bootstrap our installation function (__bp_install). We remove our code upon first execution but need to restore any preexisting trap calls. We previously usedsedto process the trap string, but that had two downsides:sedis an external command dependency. It needs to exist on the system, and we need to invoke it in a subshell (which has some runtime cost).The regular expression pattern was imperfect and didn't handle trickier cases like
'characters in the trap string:This change removes the dependency on
sedby locally evaluating the trap string and extracting any prior trap. This works reliably because we control the format our trap string, which looks like this (with newlines expanded):