[Texstudio-list] Refactoring command/tool system

[Benito v. d. Z. <be...@be...>]

Hi,
I plan to refactor the command options, so they are more flexible (and 
hopefully have a less complex implementation).
Basically every command gets an unique id like txs:///pdflatex that can 
be referenced from other commands, to run that command as subcommand. 
(or alternatively $pdflatex, although that might collide with other $ in 
a command)
Does anyone need command features not listed here?

* Map command-id to full command:
    txs:///pdflatex   =>    pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode -src 
-synctex=1  --src-specials  %.tex
    txs:///view-pdf   =>    evince %.pdf

* Support recursion
    txs:///quick      =>    txs:///view-pdf  =>   txs:///view-pdf-internal

* Have meta commands to switch tool chains:
    txs:///quick        =>    ...
    txs:///compile      =>    txs:///pdflatex
    txs:///bibliography =>    txs:///bibtex

* Chain multiple commands:
    txs:///pdflatex | txs:///view-pdf

* Expand commands:
    asy ?m*.asy  =>   asy asy0.asy | asy asy1.asy | ...

* Combine user and normal commands:
    txs:///user0

* DDE support
    old: dde://programpath:service/control/[commands...]
    new: dde:///programpath:service/control/[commands...]

* Add options at the end
   txs:///pdflatex -shell-escape

* Override options/add at the beginning
   txs:///pdflatex/[-synctex=0]           =>  pdflatex -synctex=0 ...
   txs:///pdflatex/[-synctex=0][-foobar]  =>  pdflatex -synctex=0 
-foobar ...
   txs:///pdflatex/[-shell-escape]        =>  pdflatex -shell-escape ...

* Remove options (??):
   txs:///pdflatex/{-shell-escape}        =>  pdflatex ... without 
shell-escape

* Override master file (???):
   txs:///pdflatex/(masterfile, linenr, currentfile)

* Stdout display:
   default on for bibliography/bibtex/user, off for everything else
   disable with > /dev/null
   enable with > txs:///messages

* Stderr display (?):
   disable with 2> /dev/null
   enable with 2> txs:///messages

* Per project command settings:
   Masterdocument can override each mapping, e.g.:
   % !TeX program:compile = pdflatex
   % !TeX program:bibliography = biber

* Run necessary programs before latex: Implicitly call 
txs:///internal-pre-compile before any compilation that contains 
latex/pdflatex/compile, with:
   txs:///internal-pre-compile => txs:///pre-compile | 
txs:///conditional-bibliography-pre-compile
   txs:///conditional-bibliography-pre-compile  => txs:///compile | 
txs:///bibliography | txs:///compile    if there are modified bibtex 
files, or empty otherwise

* If the command contains txs:///latex, txs:///pdflatex,  auto repeat  
if there are LaTeX errors, call txs:///bibliography first if citations 
are missing

* Run everything synchronously, except viewers

* When compiling, expand fully and show first and last synchronous level 
in the status bar, e.g.:
   QuickBuild: pdflatex


----------COMMANDS-----------:

  Compile: latex, pdflatex
  Convert: dvips, ps2pdf, dvipdf, dvipng
  Bibliography: bibtex, (bibtex8, biber ??)
  Viewer: view-pdf, view-dvi, view-ps, view-pdf-external, view-pdf-internal
  SVN: svn, svnadmin
  Other: makeindex, metapost, ghostscript, asymptote
  Meta: compile (either txs:///latex or txs:///pdflatex),
        bibliography (either txs:///bibtex or txs:///biber),
        viewer (e.g. txs:///view-pdf)
        quick (quickmode),
        ps-chain (=> latex,dvips, viewps ; as a quickmode default), 
pdf-chain, dvi-chain, dvipdf-chain, asydvi-chain, asypdf-chain
        user0, user1, user2 ...

----------INTERNAL-----------:

* Entirely contained in BuildManager and subclasses

* Replace CMD_* enums with string constants

* remove RunCommand mess and move it to BuildManager

* BuildManager::parseExtendedCommandLine splits command line into list 
of commands with flags (RunCommandFlags)

* BuildManager::initCommand calls BuildManager::parseECL, returns class 
executing the commands one-by-one.
   Callback to Texmaker-class for bibtex and overrides, signal/slots for 
messages, handle pipes (ignore stdout for speed, send it to mainwindow, 
or write it in return buffer)

* BuildManager::runCommand calls initCommand and runs it immediately



  Benito