Document escaping and expanding of quotes on Windows

Parsers included:
- go parser (well, this is easily dealt with using `` strings)
- win32 (shell-api) parser
- powershell parser (for powershell commands)
- powershell parsing rules for calling native commands
- internal parsers of select regex applications (like grep)
pull/2659/head
Vlastimil Ovčáčík 3 years ago committed by Junegunn Choi
parent a33c011c21
commit e0dd2be3fb

@ -344,6 +344,45 @@ func TestPowershellCommands(t *testing.T) {
tests := []testCase{
// reference: give{template, query, items}, want{output OR match}
/*
You can read each line in the following table as a pipeline that
consist of series of parsers that act upon your input (col. 1) and
each cell represents the output value.
For example:
- exec.Command("program.exe", `\''`)
- goes to win32 api which will process it transparently as it contains no special characters, see [CommandLineToArgvW][].
- powershell command will receive it as is, that is two arguments: a literal backslash and empty string in single quotes
- native command run via/from powershell will receive only one argument: a literal backslash. Because extra parsing rules apply, see [NativeCallsFromPowershell][].
- some¹ apps have internal parser, that requires one more level of escaping (yes, this is completely application-specific, but see terminal_test.go#TestWindowsCommands)
Character CommandLineToArgvW Powershell commands Native commands from Powershell Apps requiring escapes¹ | Being tested below
---------- ------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------- -------------------------- | ------------------
" empty string² missing argument error ... ... |
\" literal " unbalanced quote error ... ... |
'\"' literal '"' literal " empty string empty string (match all) | yes
'\\\"' literal '\"' literal \" literal " literal " |
---------- ------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------- -------------------------- | ------------------
\ transparent transparent transparent regex error |
'\' transparent literal \ literal \ regex error | yes
\\ transparent transparent transparent literal \ |
'\\' transparent literal \\ literal \\ literal \ |
---------- ------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------- -------------------------- | ------------------
' transparent unbalanced quote error ... ... |
\' transparent literal \ and unb. quote error ... ... |
\'' transparent literal \ and empty string literal \ regex error | no, but given as example above
''' transparent unbalanced quote error ... ... |
'''' transparent literal ' literal ' literal ' | yes
---------- ------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------- -------------------------- | ------------------
: charatecter or characters 'x' as an argument to a program in go's call: exec.Command("program.exe", `x`)
¹: native commands like grep, git grep, ripgrep
²: interpreted as a grouping quote, affects argument parser and gets removed from the result
[CommandLineToArgvW]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/api/shellapi/nf-shellapi-commandlinetoargvw#remarks
[NativeCallsFromPowershell]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.core/about/about_parsing?view=powershell-7.1#passing-arguments-that-contain-quote-characters
*/
// 1) working examples
{give{`Get-Content {}`, ``, newItems(`C:\test.txt`)}, want{output: `Get-Content 'C:\test.txt'`}},

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