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CogentRedTester 429fdcf21d mp.input: allow clients to override console.lua script-opts
This commit allows a table of script-opt overrides to be passed to
`mp.input.get()` and `mp.input.select()`, which console.lua will use
instead of the its own.

To minimise required changes, metatables are used to allow console.lua
to seamlessly fall back on the original script-opts if the client does
not provide an override.
To prevent exceptions, the incoming opts must be of the same type.
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CONSOLE
=======
This script provides the ability to process the user's textual input to other
scripts through the ``mp.input`` API. It can be displayed on both the video
window and the terminal. It can be disabled entirely using the
``--load-console=no`` option.
Console can either process free-form text or select from a predefined list of
items.
Free-form text mode keybindings
-------------------------------
ESC and Ctrl+[
Hide the console.
ENTER, Ctrl+j and Ctrl+m
Select the first completion if one wasn't already manually selected, and run
the typed command.
Shift+ENTER
Type a literal newline character.
LEFT and Ctrl+b
Move the cursor to the previous character.
RIGHT and Ctrl+f
Move the cursor to the next character.
Ctrl+LEFT and Alt+b
Move the cursor to the beginning of the current word, or if between words,
to the beginning of the previous word.
Ctrl+RIGHT and Alt+f
Move the cursor to the end of the current word, or if between words, to the
end of the next word.
HOME and Ctrl+a
Move the cursor to the start of the current line.
END and Ctrl+e
Move the cursor to the end of the current line.
BACKSPACE and Ctrl+h
Delete the previous character.
Ctrl+d
Hide the console if the current line is empty, otherwise delete the next
character.
Ctrl+BACKSPACE and Ctrl+w
Delete text from the cursor to the beginning of the current word, or if
between words, to the beginning of the previous word.
Ctrl+DEL and Alt+d
Delete text from the cursor to the end of the current word, or if between
words, to the end of the next word.
Ctrl+u
Delete text from the cursor to the beginning of the current line.
Ctrl+k
Delete text from the cursor to the end of the current line.
Ctrl+c
Clear the current line.
UP and Ctrl+p
Move back in the command history.
DOWN and Ctrl+n
Move forward in the command history.
PGUP
Go to the first command in the history.
PGDN
Stop navigating the command history.
Ctrl+r
Search the command history. See `SELECT`_ for the key bindings in this mode.
Shift+UP
Scroll the log one line up.
Shift+DOWN
Scroll the log one line down.
INSERT
Toggle insert mode.
Ctrl+v
Paste text (uses the clipboard on X11 and Wayland).
Shift+INSERT
Paste text (uses the primary selection on X11 and Wayland).
Ctrl+y
Copy the current line to the clipboard.
TAB and Ctrl+i
Cycle through completions.
Shift+TAB
Cycle through the completions backwards.
Ctrl+l
Clear all log messages from the console.
MBTN_MID
Paste text (uses the primary selection on X11 and Wayland).
WHEEL_UP
Move back in the command history.
WHEEL_DOWN
Move forward in the command history.
Known issues
------------
- Non-ASCII keyboard input has restrictions
- The cursor keys move between Unicode code-points, not grapheme clusters
Configuration
-------------
This script can be customized through a config file ``script-opts/console.conf``
placed in mpv's user directory and through the ``--script-opts`` command-line
option. The configuration syntax is described in `mp.options functions`_.
Note that ``mp.input`` clients can selectively override these options.
Configurable Options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
``monospace_font``
Default: platform dependent
The monospace font used when there are completions to align in a grid.
When there are no completions, ``--osd-font`` is used.
``font_size``
Default: 24
The font size. This will be multiplied by ``display-hidpi-scale`` when the
console is not scaled with the window.
``border_size``
Default: 1.65
The font border size.
``background_alpha``
Default: 80
The transparency of the menu's background. Ranges from 0 (opaque) to 255
(fully transparent).
``gap``
Default: 0.2
The gap between menu items, specified as a percentage the font size.
``padding``
Default: 10
The padding of the menu.
``menu_outline_size``
Default: 0
The size of the menu's border.
``menu_outline_color``
Default: #FFFFFF
The color of the menu's border.
``corner_radius``
Default: 8
The radius of the menu's corners.
``margin_x``
Default: same as ``--osd-margin-x``
The margin from the left of the window.
``margin_y``
Default: same as ``--osd-margin-y``
The margin from the bottom of the window.
``scale_with_window``
Default: ``auto``
Whether to scale the console with the window height. Can be ``yes``, ``no``,
or ``auto``, which follows the value of ``--osd-scale-by-window``.
``focused_color``
Default: ``#222222``
The color of the focused item.
``focused_back_color``
Default: ``#FFFFFF``
The background color of the focused item.
``match_color``
Default: ``#0088FF``
The color of characters that match the searched string.
``exact_match``
Default: no
Whether to match menu search queries exactly instead of fuzzily. Without
this option, prefixing queries with ``'`` enables exact matching.
``case_sensitive``
Default: no
Whether exact searches are case sensitive. Only works with ASCII characters.
``history_dedup``
Default: true
Remove duplicate entries in history as to only keep the latest one.
``font_hw_ratio``
Default: auto
The ratio of font height to font width.
Adjusts grid width of completions.
Values in the range 1.8..2.5 make sense for common monospace fonts.