changeset 36670:44048f1bcee5

templater: provide hint for multi-line templates with parse errors Previously, we punted. Now we "rewrite" the template's newlines to r'\n' and offset the hint appropriately. Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2609
author Ryan McElroy <rmcelroy@fb.com>
date Sat, 03 Mar 2018 14:30:21 -0800
parents 80d7fb6c2dec
children 34e2ff1f9cd8
files mercurial/templater.py tests/test-log.t
diffstat 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/mercurial/templater.py	Sat Mar 03 14:23:40 2018 -0800
+++ b/mercurial/templater.py	Sat Mar 03 14:30:21 2018 -0800
@@ -246,14 +246,16 @@
     except error.ParseError as inst:
         if len(inst.args) > 1:  # has location
             loc = inst.args[1]
-            # TODO: Opportunity for improvement! If there is a newline in the
-            # template, this hint does not point to the right place, so skip.
-            if '\n' not in tmpl:
-                # We want the caret to point to the place in the template that
-                # failed to parse, but in a hint we get a open paren at the
-                # start. Therefore, we print "loc" spaces (instead of "loc - 1")
-                # to line up the caret with the location of the error.
-                inst.hint = tmpl + '\n' + ' ' * (loc) + '^ ' + _('here')
+            # Offset the caret location by the number of newlines before the
+            # location of the error, since we will replace one-char newlines
+            # with the two-char literal r'\n'.
+            offset = tmpl[:loc].count('\n')
+            tmpl = tmpl.replace('\n', br'\n')
+            # We want the caret to point to the place in the template that
+            # failed to parse, but in a hint we get a open paren at the
+            # start. Therefore, we print "loc" spaces (instead of "loc - 1")
+            # to line up the caret with the location of the error.
+            inst.hint = tmpl + '\n' + ' ' * (loc + offset) + '^ ' + _('here')
         raise
     yield ('end', None, pos)
 
--- a/tests/test-log.t	Sat Mar 03 14:23:40 2018 -0800
+++ b/tests/test-log.t	Sat Mar 03 14:30:21 2018 -0800
@@ -2304,6 +2304,8 @@
   > {shortest(node}
   > line4\nline5'
   hg: parse error at 28: unexpected token: end
+  (line 1\nline2\n{shortest(node}\nline4\nline5
+                                ^ here)
   [255]
 
   $ cd ..