Multiline abbreviations

CHANGES.md

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ News
 * Added CmdResult namedtumple for returning and storing results
 * Added local file system path completion for ``edit``, ``load``, ``save``, and ``shell`` commands
 * Add shell command completion for ``shell`` command or ``!`` shortcut
+* Abbreviated multiline commands are no longer allowed (they never worked correctly anyways)
 
 0.7.0
 -----

cmd2.py

@@ -600,7 +600,7 @@ class Cmd(cmd.Cmd):
     excludeFromHistory = '''run r list l history hi ed edit li eof'''.split()
     # make sure your terminators are not in legalChars!
     legalChars = u'!#$%.:?@_-' + pyparsing.alphanums + pyparsing.alphas8bit
-    multilineCommands = []
+    multilineCommands = []  # NOTE: Multiline commands can never be abbreviated, even if abbrev is True
     noSpecialParse = 'set ed edit exit'.split()
     prefixParser = pyparsing.Empty()
     redirector = '>'  # for sending output to file
@@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ def func_named(self, arg):
             result = target
         else:
             if self.abbrev:  # accept shortened versions of commands
-                funcs = [fname for fname in self.keywords if fname.startswith(arg)]
+                funcs = [func for func in self.keywords if func.startswith(arg) and func not in self.multilineCommands]
                 if len(funcs) == 1:
                     result = 'do_' + funcs[0]
         return result

docs/freefeatures.rst

@@ -243,6 +243,11 @@ no other commands defined beginning with *divid*,
 
 This behavior can be turned off with ``app.abbrev`` (see :ref:`parameters`)
 
+.. warning::
+
+    Due to the way the parsing logic works for multiline commands, abbreviations
+    will not be accepted for multiline commands.
+
 Misc. pre-defined commands
 ==========================
 

tests/test_parsing.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 """
 Unit/functional testing for helper functions/classes in the cmd2.py module.
 
-These are primarily tests related to parsing.  Moreover, they are mostly a port of the old doctest tests which were 
+These are primarily tests related to parsing.  Moreover, they are mostly a port of the old doctest tests which were
 problematic because they worked properly for some versions of pyparsing but not for others.
 
 Copyright 2017 Todd Leonhardt <todd.leonhardt@gmail.com>
@@ -247,6 +247,12 @@ def test_parse_multiline_ignores_terminators_in_comments(parser):
     assert results.terminator[0] == '\n'
     assert results.terminator[1] == '\n'
 
+def test_parse_abbreviated_multiline_not_allowed(parser):
+    line = 'multilin command\n'
+    results = parser.parseString(line)
+    assert results.command == 'multilin'
+    assert results.multilineCommand == ''
+
 # Unicode support is only present in cmd2 for Python 3
 @pytest.mark.skipif(sys.version_info < (3,0), reason="cmd2 unicode support requires python3")
 def test_parse_command_with_unicode_args(parser):