[Tcsh] One-line command parsing

[Matheus]

Never mind. I ended up altering sh.sem.c. I was afraid altering sh.func.c would be dangerous.

The implementation is almost done, though no deep testing was performed. I have if/endif and while/end working on one-line.

One drawback to be noted is that sub-shells may not be used within control structures. I intentionally left this as an error.

I'm trying the best to implement this.

> The whole parser and lexical analyzer needs to be redone. Patching it is a losing cause.
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> christos
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> > On Aug 24, 2026, at 12:59 PM, Matheus <tateusg at protonmail.com> wrote:
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> > Because I first tried to implement this on top of a temporary function, I altered how semicolons are parsed. Notably, the command-line must end with a semicolon. This is only true when a semicolon is inserted. I.e.: a ; b ;. However, the behavior in sh.sem.c wasn't altered.
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> > Though I don't know if this is the best solution to implement one-line command parsing for control structures, this is what I achieved.
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> > I've only decided to implement this because of this issue somebody posted on my repository. I, for one, couldn't care less whether one-line command parsing for control structures is a feature or not. I mean one could achieve this behavior using a function.
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> > Regarding functions, I came to realize the implementation is somewhat bad. I dislike the use of pipe(). This is messy. I need to reorganize the project.
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> >> What is the implication for the existing syntax? I.e. how are existing scripts affected?
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> >> christos
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> >>> On Aug 24, 2026, at 10:51 AM, Matheus <tateusg at protonmail.com> wrote:
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> >>> https://github.com/Krush206/etcsh/pull/2
> >>> Hello. I'm writing this e-mail as a matter of contribution. I forked Tcsh, and added some features. My most-recent contribution is on one-line command parsing. I'm currently working on an implementation to parse control structures in a single line, as in Bourne shells.
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> >>> At first, I thought on parsing one-line commands on top of a temporary function. This turned out to be too complicated. Instead, I parse semicolons into a new node mode [NODE_FUNC]. I implemented a new mode [F_LINE]. I "reparse" the entire tree, setting the F_LINE bit to every command node [NODE_COMMAND]. Then, in execute(), I walk through the entire tree, analyzing which of the NODE_COMMAND entries contain the F_LINE mode. The node shall be saved in a circular linked list for each containing the F_LINE mode. Next, the circular linked list is analyzed from search1(). The parsing is almost the same from search().
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> >>> This is still a work in progress. Not ready for production use. I don't know if this is 100% feasible, though, compared to past implementations, progressed quite fairly.
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> >>> I'd appreciate for contributions and feedback.
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> >>> Thank you.
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