commandSequencer object | output.t[1611]

Command Sequencer Filter. This is an output filter that handles the special <.commandsep> tag for visual command separation. This tag has the form of a style tag, but must be processed specially.

<.commandsep> shows an appropriate separator between commands. Before the first command output or after the last command output, this has no effect. A run of multiple consecutive <.commandsep> tags is treated as a single tag.

Between commands, we show gLibMessages.commandResultsSeparator. After an input line and before the first command result text, we show gLibMessages.commandResultsPrefix. After the last command result text before a new input line, we show gLibMessages.commandResultsSuffix. If we read two input lines, and there is no intervening text output at all, we show gLibMessages.commandResultsEmpty.

The input manager should write a <.commandbefore> tag whenever it starts reading a command line, and a <.commandafter> tag whenever it finishes reading a command line.

`transient commandSequencer : OutputFilter`

Superclass Tree (in declaration order)

`commandSequencer`
`OutputFilter`
`object`

Summary of Properties

`patNextTag state_`

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Summary of Methods

`filterText setCommandMode writeThrough`

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Properties

`patNextTag` | `output.t[1648]`

pre-compile our tag sequence pattern

`state_` | `output.t[1862]`

our current state - start out in before-command mode

Methods

`filterText (ostr, txt)`OVERRIDDEN | `output.t[1656]`

Apply our filter

`setCommandMode ( )` | `output.t[1618]`

Force the sequencer into mid-command mode. This can be used to defeat the resequencing into before-results mode that occurs if any interactive command-line input must be read in the course of a command's execution.

`writeThrough (txt)` | `output.t[1624]`

Internal routine: write the given text directly through us, skipping any filtering we'd otherwise apply.

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