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@astonm astonm commented Nov 2, 2021

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This PR adds a test suite for the cd command that I used to verify the correctness of #37. I pulled in jest as the test runner, but the same idea could be implemented easily with another option.

To run the tests, npm test.

As written, the codebase relies on a shared global namespace which happens naturally in the browser, but not-so-naturally when running tests from the command line, so I had to put in a hacky global.whatever = prelude to get things set up before the tests run. In order to get require to work, I added module.exports to the ends of the necessary files, and guarded those with a check so that when the same code runs in browser (with no module global) it won't complain.

Lemme know if you prefer a different set of hacks! I imagine without bringing in a build system, something like what's here is going to be one of the better options.

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Just added some code to run the tests as part of the GitHub checks, but it's not enabled on this PR. I'll admit I have no clue how to make that happen... Happy to remove that commit if it's not needed.

ledwards added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 13, 2026
* Land three stalled command contributions, and finish the RickRoll move

Four PRs sat open for between one and four years. The ideas were good; the
patches had rotted against a file that moved underneath them. Reapplied here
with credit.

- cowsay (#106) — prints the classic bubble and cow. Uses writeln rather than
  stylePrint because it is alignment-sensitive art that stylePrint would wrap
  and recolor.
- date and wget (#72) — date prints the real thing; wget points at curl, which
  already has the joke response.
- The RickRoll (#84, #85). Both PRs wanted the joke to play in the terminal
  instead of punting the user to an imgur GIF in a new tab. That landed for
  `test` at some point, but `cat id_rsa`, `grep <pattern> id_rsa` and
  `open test.htm` were left behind still opening the GIF. All four now go
  through one _rickRoll() helper, so they cannot drift apart again.

Verified in a browser against a built dist/: cowsay renders correctly, date and
wget print as expected, and all four RickRoll routes fire the in-terminal
animation with zero external URLs opened.

Co-Authored-By: mantra-1 <mantra-1@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: nkulkarni <nkulkarni@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: ophiuchus44 <ophiuchus44@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: jandobrx <jandobrx@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Add cd test coverage, ported from #51

cd is the one command with real branching — a switch over ~, .., /home, /bin
and team member names, several branches of which recurse through term.command
— and it drives term.cwd, which the prompt renders on every keystroke. It had
no tests.

The table comes from #51 (@astonm, November 2021), which never landed. Its
harness is long gone, but every case it asserted still describes the intended
behaviour, so the table is ported onto the current vitest setup and extended
with the permission-denied and unknown-directory paths.

Co-Authored-By: astonm <astonm@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Landed in #134, with credit to you in the commit.

Your table was the right test for cd and it still is — every case it asserted still describes the intended behaviour four years later, which is a decent sign the cases were well chosen. The harness had to change (the repo runs vitest now, with a browser-env helper for loading config/*.js), so the table is ported onto that and extended with the permission-denied and unknown-directory paths.

cd had no coverage at all until this. Thanks for writing it — sorry it sat for so long.

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