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type -p and type -P behaviors are at odds with its documentation #6411

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hivehand opened this issue Dec 10, 2019 · 2 comments
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type -p and type -P behaviors are at odds with its documentation #6411

hivehand opened this issue Dec 10, 2019 · 2 comments
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@hivehand
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fish: 3.0.2-1940-g15c6d8fd-dirty
macOS: 10.14.6
iTerm 2: 3.3

type -p and type -P do not currently behave, in all cases, as their documentation indicates.

xs is a function defined in its own file.
xa is an interactively-defined function.
frotz is a random word referring to neither a function nor an executable.

Neither of the functions have executable counterparts.

Invoking type -p xs, produces the path to its file, as expected.
Invoking type -p xa, produces a single dash (-) as output, rather than nothing.
Invoking type -p frotz, produces type: Could not find 'frotz', rather than nothing.

Invoking type -P on all of the above produces type: Could not find '<argument>', rather than nothing.

I believe that I have a fix for these in place, and will submit it shortly.

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faho commented Dec 11, 2019

Invoking type -p xa, produces a single dash (-) as output, rather than nothing.

I can't reproduce this.

For me, it works like this:

$ function banana; echo banana; end
$ functions --details banana
stdin
$ type -p banana
$

functions --details does not print "-", it prints "stdin" like documented?

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Sorry. As I just noted in #6407, it turns out that only functions created by alias cause functions --details to emit a dash. This does not affect the implementation of type in the current release (3.0.2), but it does affect type at top-of-tree. I think that the fix for that aspect of the issue is a one-liner, and will update my related pull request shortly.

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