[PATCH 1 of 3 V7] hgweb: code selection without line numbers in file source view

Alexander Plavin me at aplavin.ru
Mon Jul 8 16:19:57 CDT 2013


# HG changeset patch
# User Alexander Plavin <me at aplavin.ru>
# Date 1372933124 -14400
#      Thu Jul 04 14:18:44 2013 +0400
# Node ID 8d356cd3f5424b9d880111ec12621944df20f5c6
# Parent  d7b4aa1049d3fbbc2b8d24114afad82586c49db3
hgweb: code selection without line numbers in file source view

All the source lines are put in a <pre> tag, which gives correct display and
copy&paste in both Chromium (WebKit) and FireFox: line numbers are not copied,
all the tabs and spaces are kept. This doesn't change the visual appearance
of the view compared to current hgweb version and doesn't use any JS code.
Also, stripes in this view are now generated clientside with CSS.

This implementation is chosen because other variants have important issues:

Strategy             FF              Chrome

current             D,LT,E,T,L        D,L
pre                 S,NW              S,NW
pre/div/nbsp        LT,E,T,TS,NW      TS,NW
pre/div/br          LT,E,T,NW         NW
ol/li/nbsp          LT,E,T,TS,AJ      TS,AJ
ol/li/br            LT,E,T,AJ         AJ
pre/span            LV                LV

Legend

Strategies:
- current: implemented in hgweb before this patch, i.e. divs for each line,
and line numbers links in the div too
- pre: the whole code in one pre tag with newlines, all line numbers
in another one with 'float: left'
- pre/div/{nbsp,br}: same as just 'pre', but separate divs for each line and
  or <br> instead of empty lines (otherwise they are not copied at all)
- ol/li/{nbsp,br}: a single ol with li's and divs for each line,
  or <br> same as in previous strategy
- pre/span: this patch

Problems:
D = (very minor) display problems, like wrong width of leading tabs
LT = loses leading/trailing whitespace
E = loses embedded whitespace
B = loses blank lines
T = loses tabs
L = selects line numbers
LV = (only) visually selects line numbers
LVE = (only) visually selects line numbers at empty lines
S = no stripes (and no ability to easily highlight
lines-which-are-linked-at in the future)
TS = space copied instead of empty line
AJ = get anchor links only with JS (they work even without)
NW = no linewrap easily possible (in future)

As for browser versions compatibility, the CSS tricks used are supported in
(according to caniuse.com):
a) line numbers generation with 'content:' property and CSS counters:
IE 8+, all other popular browsers (in pre-WebKit Opera numbers are being copied)
b) stripes ('nth-child' selector):
IE 8+, FF 3.5+, Safari 3.2+, Opera 9.5+, all other popular browsers
c) line numbers are not visually selected ('user-select:' property):
IE 10+, Opera 15.0+, all other popular browsers

This patch is based on a demo implementation by
Martin Geisler <martin at geisler.net>.

diff -r d7b4aa1049d3 -r 8d356cd3f542 mercurial/templates/paper/filerevision.tmpl
--- a/mercurial/templates/paper/filerevision.tmpl	Sat Jun 29 14:36:51 2013 +0400
+++ b/mercurial/templates/paper/filerevision.tmpl	Thu Jul 04 14:18:44 2013 +0400
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
 
 <div class="overflow">
 <div class="sourcefirst"> line source</div>
-{text%fileline}
+<pre class="sourcelines">{text%fileline}</pre>
 <div class="sourcelast"></div>
 </div>
 </div>
diff -r d7b4aa1049d3 -r 8d356cd3f542 mercurial/templates/paper/map
--- a/mercurial/templates/paper/map	Sat Jun 29 14:36:51 2013 +0400
+++ b/mercurial/templates/paper/map	Thu Jul 04 14:18:44 2013 +0400
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
 filecomparison = filecomparison.tmpl
 filelog = filelog.tmpl
 fileline = '
-  <div class="parity{parity} source"><a href="#{lineid}" id="{lineid}">{linenumber}</a> {line|escape}</div>'
+  <span id="{lineid}">{strip(line|escape, '\r\n')}</span><a href="#{lineid}"></a>'
 filelogentry = filelogentry.tmpl
 
 annotateline = '
diff -r d7b4aa1049d3 -r 8d356cd3f542 mercurial/templates/static/style-paper.css
--- a/mercurial/templates/static/style-paper.css	Sat Jun 29 14:36:51 2013 +0400
+++ b/mercurial/templates/static/style-paper.css	Thu Jul 04 14:18:44 2013 +0400
@@ -209,6 +209,44 @@
 .source a { color: #999; font-size: smaller; font-family: monospace;}
 .bottomline { border-bottom: 1px solid #999; }
 
+.sourcelines {
+  font-size: 90%;
+  position: relative;
+}
+
+.sourcelines > span {
+  display: inline-block;
+  width: 100%;
+  padding: 1px 0px;
+  counter-increment: lineno;
+}
+
+.sourcelines > span:before {
+  -moz-user-select: -moz-none;
+  -khtml-user-select: none;
+  -webkit-user-select: none;
+  -ms-user-select: none;
+  user-select: none;
+  display: inline-block;
+  width: 4em;
+  margin-right: 1em;
+  font-size: smaller;
+  color: #999;
+  text-align: right;
+  content: counter(lineno);
+}
+
+.sourcelines > span:nth-child(4n+1) { background-color: #f0f0f0; }
+.sourcelines > span:nth-child(4n+3) { background-color: white; }
+
+.sourcelines > a {
+    display: inline-block;
+    position: absolute;
+    left: 0px;
+    width: 4em;
+    height: 1em;
+}
+
 .fileline { font-family: monospace; }
 .fileline img { border: 0; }
 
diff -r d7b4aa1049d3 -r 8d356cd3f542 tests/test-hgweb-commands.t
--- a/tests/test-hgweb-commands.t	Sat Jun 29 14:36:51 2013 +0400
+++ b/tests/test-hgweb-commands.t	Thu Jul 04 14:18:44 2013 +0400
@@ -668,9 +668,8 @@
   
   <div class="overflow">
   <div class="sourcefirst"> line source</div>
-  
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l1" id="l1">     1</a> foo
-  </div>
+  <pre class="sourcelines">
+  <span id="l1">foo</span><a href="#l1"></a></pre>
   <div class="sourcelast"></div>
   </div>
   </div>
diff -r d7b4aa1049d3 -r 8d356cd3f542 tests/test-highlight.t
--- a/tests/test-highlight.t	Sat Jun 29 14:36:51 2013 +0400
+++ b/tests/test-highlight.t	Thu Jul 04 14:18:44 2013 +0400
@@ -137,39 +137,39 @@
   
   <div class="overflow">
   <div class="sourcefirst"> line source</div>
-  
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l1" id="l1">     1</a> <span class="c">#!/usr/bin/env python</span></div>
-  <div class="parity1 source"><a href="#l2" id="l2">     2</a> </div>
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l3" id="l3">     3</a> <span class="sd">"""Fun with generators. Corresponding Haskell implementation:</span></div>
-  <div class="parity1 source"><a href="#l4" id="l4">     4</a> </div>
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l5" id="l5">     5</a> <span class="sd">primes = 2 : sieve [3, 5..]</span></div>
-  <div class="parity1 source"><a href="#l6" id="l6">     6</a> <span class="sd">    where sieve (p:ns) = p : sieve [n | n <- ns, mod n p /= 0]</span></div>
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l7" id="l7">     7</a> <span class="sd">"""</span></div>
-  <div class="parity1 source"><a href="#l8" id="l8">     8</a> </div>
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l9" id="l9">     9</a> <span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">itertools</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">dropwhile</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ifilter</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">islice</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">count</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">chain</span></div>
-  <div class="parity1 source"><a href="#l10" id="l10">    10</a> </div>
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l11" id="l11">    11</a> <span class="kn">def</span> <span class="nf">primes</span><span class="p">():</span></div>
-  <div class="parity1 source"><a href="#l12" id="l12">    12</a>     <span class="sd">"""Generate all primes."""</span></div>
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l13" id="l13">    13</a>     <span class="kn">def</span> <span class="nf">sieve</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">ns</span><span class="p">):</span></div>
-  <div class="parity1 source"><a href="#l14" id="l14">    14</a>         <span class="n">p</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ns</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">next</span><span class="p">()</span></div>
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l15" id="l15">    15</a>         <span class="c"># It is important to yield *here* in order to stop the</span></div>
-  <div class="parity1 source"><a href="#l16" id="l16">    16</a>         <span class="c"># infinite recursion.</span></div>
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l17" id="l17">    17</a>         <span class="kn">yield</span> <span class="n">p</span></div>
-  <div class="parity1 source"><a href="#l18" id="l18">    18</a>         <span class="n">ns</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ifilter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="kn">lambda</span> <span class="n">n</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="n">p</span> <span class="o">!=</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ns</span><span class="p">)</span></div>
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l19" id="l19">    19</a>         <span class="kn">for</span> <span class="n">n</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">sieve</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">ns</span><span class="p">):</span></div>
-  <div class="parity1 source"><a href="#l20" id="l20">    20</a>             <span class="kn">yield</span> <span class="n">n</span></div>
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l21" id="l21">    21</a> </div>
-  <div class="parity1 source"><a href="#l22" id="l22">    22</a>     <span class="n">odds</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ifilter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="kn">lambda</span> <span class="n">i</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">count</span><span class="p">())</span></div>
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l23" id="l23">    23</a>     <span class="kn">return</span> <span class="n">chain</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">sieve</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dropwhile</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="kn">lambda</span> <span class="n">n</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">n</span> <span class="o"><</span> <span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">odds</span><span class="p">)))</span></div>
-  <div class="parity1 source"><a href="#l24" id="l24">    24</a> </div>
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l25" id="l25">    25</a> <span class="kn">if</span> <span class="n">__name__</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="s">"__main__"</span><span class="p">:</span></div>
-  <div class="parity1 source"><a href="#l26" id="l26">    26</a>     <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">sys</span></div>
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l27" id="l27">    27</a>     <span class="kn">try</span><span class="p">:</span></div>
-  <div class="parity1 source"><a href="#l28" id="l28">    28</a>         <span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">int</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">sys</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">argv</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">])</span></div>
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l29" id="l29">    29</a>     <span class="kn">except</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="ne">ValueError</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="ne">IndexError</span><span class="p">):</span></div>
-  <div class="parity1 source"><a href="#l30" id="l30">    30</a>         <span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">10</span></div>
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l31" id="l31">    31</a>     <span class="n">p</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">primes</span><span class="p">()</span></div>
-  <div class="parity1 source"><a href="#l32" id="l32">    32</a>     <span class="kn">print</span> <span class="s">"The first </span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s"> primes: </span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s">"</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">islice</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">p</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)))</span></div>
+  <pre class="sourcelines">
+  <span id="l1"><span class="c">#!/usr/bin/env python</span></span><a href="#l1"></a>
+  <span id="l2"></span><a href="#l2"></a>
+  <span id="l3"><span class="sd">"""Fun with generators. Corresponding Haskell implementation:</span></span><a href="#l3"></a>
+  <span id="l4"></span><a href="#l4"></a>
+  <span id="l5"><span class="sd">primes = 2 : sieve [3, 5..]</span></span><a href="#l5"></a>
+  <span id="l6"><span class="sd">    where sieve (p:ns) = p : sieve [n | n <- ns, mod n p /= 0]</span></span><a href="#l6"></a>
+  <span id="l7"><span class="sd">"""</span></span><a href="#l7"></a>
+  <span id="l8"></span><a href="#l8"></a>
+  <span id="l9"><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">itertools</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">dropwhile</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ifilter</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">islice</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">count</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">chain</span></span><a href="#l9"></a>
+  <span id="l10"></span><a href="#l10"></a>
+  <span id="l11"><span class="kn">def</span> <span class="nf">primes</span><span class="p">():</span></span><a href="#l11"></a>
+  <span id="l12">    <span class="sd">"""Generate all primes."""</span></span><a href="#l12"></a>
+  <span id="l13">    <span class="kn">def</span> <span class="nf">sieve</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">ns</span><span class="p">):</span></span><a href="#l13"></a>
+  <span id="l14">        <span class="n">p</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ns</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">next</span><span class="p">()</span></span><a href="#l14"></a>
+  <span id="l15">        <span class="c"># It is important to yield *here* in order to stop the</span></span><a href="#l15"></a>
+  <span id="l16">        <span class="c"># infinite recursion.</span></span><a href="#l16"></a>
+  <span id="l17">        <span class="kn">yield</span> <span class="n">p</span></span><a href="#l17"></a>
+  <span id="l18">        <span class="n">ns</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ifilter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="kn">lambda</span> <span class="n">n</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="n">p</span> <span class="o">!=</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">ns</span><span class="p">)</span></span><a href="#l18"></a>
+  <span id="l19">        <span class="kn">for</span> <span class="n">n</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">sieve</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">ns</span><span class="p">):</span></span><a href="#l19"></a>
+  <span id="l20">            <span class="kn">yield</span> <span class="n">n</span></span><a href="#l20"></a>
+  <span id="l21"></span><a href="#l21"></a>
+  <span id="l22">    <span class="n">odds</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ifilter</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="kn">lambda</span> <span class="n">i</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">count</span><span class="p">())</span></span><a href="#l22"></a>
+  <span id="l23">    <span class="kn">return</span> <span class="n">chain</span><span class="p">([</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">sieve</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dropwhile</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="kn">lambda</span> <span class="n">n</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">n</span> <span class="o"><</span> <span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">odds</span><span class="p">)))</span></span><a href="#l23"></a>
+  <span id="l24"></span><a href="#l24"></a>
+  <span id="l25"><span class="kn">if</span> <span class="n">__name__</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="s">"__main__"</span><span class="p">:</span></span><a href="#l25"></a>
+  <span id="l26">    <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">sys</span></span><a href="#l26"></a>
+  <span id="l27">    <span class="kn">try</span><span class="p">:</span></span><a href="#l27"></a>
+  <span id="l28">        <span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">int</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">sys</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">argv</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">])</span></span><a href="#l28"></a>
+  <span id="l29">    <span class="kn">except</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="ne">ValueError</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="ne">IndexError</span><span class="p">):</span></span><a href="#l29"></a>
+  <span id="l30">        <span class="n">n</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">10</span></span><a href="#l30"></a>
+  <span id="l31">    <span class="n">p</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">primes</span><span class="p">()</span></span><a href="#l31"></a>
+  <span id="l32">    <span class="kn">print</span> <span class="s">"The first </span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s"> primes: </span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s">"</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">n</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nb">list</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">islice</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">p</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">n</span><span class="p">)))</span></span><a href="#l32"></a></pre>
   <div class="sourcelast"></div>
   </div>
   </div>
@@ -593,17 +593,14 @@
   $ hgserveget euc-jp eucjp.txt
   % HGENCODING=euc-jp hg serve
   % hgweb filerevision, html
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l1" id="l1">     1</a> \xb5\xfe</div> (esc)
   % errors encountered
   $ hgserveget utf-8 eucjp.txt
   % HGENCODING=utf-8 hg serve
   % hgweb filerevision, html
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l1" id="l1">     1</a> \xef\xbf\xbd\xef\xbf\xbd</div> (esc)
   % errors encountered
   $ hgserveget us-ascii eucjp.txt
   % HGENCODING=us-ascii hg serve
   % hgweb filerevision, html
-  <div class="parity0 source"><a href="#l1" id="l1">     1</a> ??</div>
   % errors encountered
 
   $ cd ..


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