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This pr fix clippy warnings in latest clippy version(1.72.0):
Unfortunally it's not easy to handle for [try
fold](https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#/manual_try_fold)
warning in `start command`
Refer to known issue:
> This lint doesn’t take into account whether a function does something
on the failure case, i.e., whether short-circuiting will affect
behavior. Refactoring to try_fold is not desirable in those cases.
That's the case for our code, which does something on the failure case.
So this pr is making a little refactor on `try_commands`.
# Description
Relax typechecking of key-less `table`/`record`
Assume that they are acceptable for more narrowly specified
`table<...>`/`record<...>` where `...` specifies keys and potentially
types for those keys/columns.
This ensures that you can use commands that specify general return
values statically with more specific input-/args-type requirements.
Reduces the power of the type-check a bit but unlocks you to actually
use the specific annotations in more places.
Incompatibilities will only be raised if an output type declares
specific columns/keys.
Closes#9702
Supersedes #10594 as a simpler solution requiring no extra distinction.
h/t @1kinoti, @NotLebedev
# User-Facing Changes
Now legal at type-check time
```nu
def foo []: nothing -> table { [] }
def foo []: nothing -> table<> { ls }
def bar []: table<a:int,b:string> -> nothing {}
foo | bar
```
# Tests + Formatting
- 1 explicit test with specified relaxed return type passed to concrete
expected input type
- 1 test leveraging the general output type of a built-in command
- 1 test wrapping a general built-in command and verifying the type
inference in the function body
# Description
Fixes https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/10605 (again).
The loop looking for `[` to determine signature position didn't stop
early enough, so it thought the second `[` denoting the inp/out types
marks the beginning of the signature.
# User-Facing Changes
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adds a new `predecl_signature_multiple_inp_out_types` test
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I haven't tested cause can't reproduce, but the issue very likely was
related to a emojies. (I mean I probably could but ....)
Could you try it @fdncred?
fix#10560
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This PR bumps the rust toolchain to 1.71.1
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# Description
Closes#10537. Basically error message was unhelpful, and this temporary
measure adds back the nice previous nushell error message. Ideally, we
would like to add a more permanent solution mentioned in the issue
[comments](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/10537#issuecomment-1743686122),
but since we want to have `ucp` as `cp` on new release, this is hackier
but way simpler so this fix should do it.
Only downside is that now behavior differs from `uutils` in the sense
that:
```
uutils:
> cp a foo/ bar
ls bar
# foo/a
nushell:
>ucp a foo/ bar
# directory error (not copied) ....
```
So, since its non fatal error, uutils copies a, but nushell errors out
with nothing copied. If we go to option 3 mentioned above, then we can
decide what we want to do, and perhaps continue on a non fatal error.
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Fixes#10586
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# Description
To my knowledge `type@completer` annotations only make sense in
arguments at the moment.
Restrict the parsing.
Also fix a bug in parsing the completer annotation should there be more
than 1 `@`
- Add test that we disallow completer in type
- Guard against `@` inside command name
- Disallow custom completers in type specification
# User-Facing Changes
Error when annotating a variable or input-output type with a completer
# Tests + Formatting
Tests to verify the error message
Implemented URL decoding as a url subcommand, created corresponding unit
tests. The logic, examples and descriptions were based on the existing
`url encode` command.
Resolves#10563
# Description
Added a new `url decode` command to compliment the existing `url
encode`, as proposed by myself in #10563.
It takes a string, list of strings or cell path and produces the
corresponding decoded strings.
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New url subcommand `url decode`, as described above.
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I've added unit tests for the new subcommand and ensured all actions
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crates/nu-std"`
# Description
This PR removes the underline from the log format. It's been messing
things up for me since there is no ansi reset in the log format and
therefore everything after it is underlined.
This PR should end things like this.
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Reverts nushell/nushell#10596
Using the long option in examples is going to be confusing as it makes
the reader think the long option is required. It also isn't idiomatic
Nushell.
The examples should be copy-paste-able as idiomatic Nushell, so as such
we shouldn't expand them to the long flag name.
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Long options are preferable over short ones for documentation.
This PR ports some command examples to exclusively use long options.
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related to
- https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/9373
- https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8639
might be able to close https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8639?
# Description
"can't follow stream paths" errors have always been a bit scary and
obnoxious because they give no information about what happens...
in this PR i try to slightly improve the error message by telling if the
stream was empty or not and give span information when available.
# User-Facing Changes
```nushell
> update value (get value)
Error: nu:🐚:incompatible_path_access
× Data cannot be accessed with a cell path
╭─[entry #1:1:1]
1 │ update value (get value)
· ─┬─
· ╰── empty pipeline doesn't support cell paths
╰────
```
```nushell
> ^echo "foo" | get 0
Error: nu:🐚:incompatible_path_access
× Data cannot be accessed with a cell path
╭─[entry #2:1:1]
1 │ ^echo "foo" | get 0
· ──┬─
· ╰── external stream doesn't support cell paths
╰────
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# Description
When referring to the type use `int` consistently. Only when referring
to the concept of integer numbers use `integer`.
- Fix `random integer` to `random int` tests
- Forgot in #10520
- Use int instead of integer in error messages
- Use int type name in bits commands
- Fix messages in `for` examples
- Use int typename in `into` commands
- Use int typename in rest of commands
- Report errors in `nu-protocol` with int typename
Work for #10332
# User-Facing Changes
User errorrs should now use `int` so you can easily find the necessary
commands or type annotations.
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Only two tests found that needed updating
code cleanup of *eval.rs*
I was reviewing the engine code and noticed this...
The *eval_element_with_input* method in eval.rs does not need to be
public at the moment
because no one is calling it...
@jntrnr is making this method not public going to block someone in the
future who might need it ?
Right now its not being used so I decided to tighten up the API a bit...
# Description
This removes the old style "cd with abbreviations" that would attempt to
guess what directory you wanted to `cd` to. This would sometimes have
false positives, so we left it off by default in the config.
In the current main, we have much-improved path completions
(https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/10543) so you can now do `cd
a/b<tab>` and get a much better experience (because you can see the
directory you're about to cd to). This removes the need for the previous
abbreviation system.
# User-Facing Changes
This does remove the old abbreviation system. It will likely mean that
old config files that have settings for abbreviations will now get
errors.
update: here's an example of the error you'll see:
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# Description
This allows auto-cd (cd'ing by just typing the directory name with `cd`)
to work if there's a trailing slash in the path.
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This should be an improvement over previous behaviour. I don't think
this clashes with any existing assumptions.
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This PR allows tab completion for nested directories while only
specifying a part of the directory names. To illustrate this, if I type
`tar/de/inc` and hit tab, it autocompletes to
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Adds warning to `url join` when input key is not supported as suggested
by @amtoine in #10506.
It just adds a `println!` statement but it seems like that is all that
is done for other warnings, e.g.,
20aaaaf90c/crates/nu-glob/src/lib.rs (L434)
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All pass.
follow up to
- #10283
# Description
even though it appears defining `to foo` does not allow to do `save
x.foo` for free (see https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/10429),
because #10283 did add `from ndjson` and `from jsonl` to the standard
library, i thought adding their `to ...` counterpart would make sense
😋
# User-Facing Changes
users can now convert structured data back to NDJSON and JSONL 👌
# Tests + Formatting
this PR adds the exact same tests as for the `from ...` commands
- structured data is in `result` and the string is now the expected
- the two invalid `from ...` tests cannot be reproduced for `to ...`
afaik
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Remove code for 2 no-longer-used configuration options in `explore`:
`explore.config.cursor_color` and `explore.config.border_color`.
Think I made these unnecessary in
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/10533 and
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/10270 but missed this code, my
bad. The `explore` config code is a little hard to follow because it
does so many key lookups in hashmaps.
# Description
Retrieving tests and their annotation no longer uses nu --ide-ast
spawned in a subprocess which should reduce test runner startup time.
# User-Facing Changes
# Tests + Formatting
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This PR removes the `line_head_top`, `line_head_bottom`, `line_shift`,
and `line_index` configuration options from `explore`. These were
previously used to control whether the horizontal+vertical lines in this
`ls | explore -i` screenshot would be displayed:
Now, all lines are displayed (same as the previous default config
values) and this is no longer configurable.
## Context
I'm continuing to chip away at `explore` when I have time. I have a
long-term goal to make `explore` simpler for users+developers. For now
I'm mostly making small incremental changes where I find underused
functionality+configuration and remove it; hopefully eventually this
will make it easier to make larger changes.
I found these specific config options a little hard to understand when
reading `explore` code, and when reading `config.nu` as a user their
behaviour+naming is not obvious. I also think that in the long term,
`explore` styling should inherit most styling from `table` instead of
having its own styling system.
The value rendering code in explore is _very_ flexible; values can be
rendered with orientation `Top`, `Left`, `Bottom`, or `Right`. The
default is `Top` for tables (header at the top) and `Left` for records
(header on the left).
This PR removes `Bottom` and `Right`; they are largely untested,
probably used by nobody, and they complicate the rendering code.
## Testing Performed
I've manually confirmed that tables and records still render the same
ass before, and the `t`/transpose command still works.
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> [!NOTE]
> This PR description originally used examples where the `generator`
closure returned a list. It has since been updated to use records
instead.
The `unfold` command allows users to dynamically generate streams of
data. The stream is generated by repeatedly invoking a `generator`
closure. The `generator` closure accepts a single argument and returns a
record containing two optional keys: 'out' and 'next'. Each invocation,
the 'out' value, if present, is added to the stream. If a 'next' key is
present, it is used as the next argument to the closure, otherwise
generation stops.
The name "unfold" is borrowed from other functional-programming
languages. Whereas `fold` (or `reduce`) takes a stream of values and
outputs a single value, `unfold` takes a single value and outputs a
stream of values.
### Examples
A common example of using `unfold` is to generate a fibbonacci sequence.
See
[here](6ffdac103c/src/sources.rs (L65))
for an example of this in rust's `itertools`.
```nushell
> unfold [0, 1] {|fib| {out: $fib.0, next: [$fib.1, ($fib.0 + $fib.1)]} } | first 10
───┬────
0 │ 0
1 │ 1
2 │ 1
3 │ 2
4 │ 3
5 │ 5
6 │ 8
7 │ 13
8 │ 21
9 │ 34
───┴────
```
This command is particularly useful when consuming paginated APIs, like
Github's. Previously, nushell users might use a loop and buffer
responses into a list, before returning all responses at once. However,
this behavior is not desirable if the result result is very large. Using
`unfold` avoids buffering and allows subsequent pipeline stages to use
the data concurrently, as it's being fetched.
#### Before
```nushell
mut pages = []
for page in 1.. {
let resp = http get (
{
scheme: https,
host: "api.github.com",
path: "/repos/nushell/nushell/issues",
params: {
page: $page,
per_page: $PAGE_SIZE
}
} | url join)
$pages = ($pages | append $resp)
if ($resp | length) < $PAGE_SIZE {
break
}
}
$pages
```
#### After
```nu
unfold 1 {|page|
let resp = http get (
{
scheme: https,
host: "api.github.com",
path: "/repos/nushell/nushell/issues",
params: {
page: $page,
per_page: $PAGE_SIZE
}
} | url join)
if ($resp | length) < $PAGE_SIZE {
{out: $resp}
} else {
{out: $resp, next: ($page + 1)}
}
}
```
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- An `unfold` generator is added to the default context.
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Given the complexity of the `generator` closure's return value, it would
be good to document the semantics of `unfold` and provide some in-depth
examples showcasing what it can accomplish.
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resolves#4869
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Adds a `help escape` command that can be used to display a table of
string escape sequences and their outputs.
```nu
help escapes
```
```nu
help escapes -h
```
The command should also appear in the list displayed when tab
autocompleting on `help`.
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Users can now use a new `help escapes` command to output a table of
string escape sequences and their outputs.
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Need to update docs to reflect existence of the new `help escapes`
command.
# Description
Fixes: #7085
Also closes: #7526
# User-Facing Changes
After this change, we need to use `-c` flag like this:
```nushell
[[a, b, c]; [1, 2, 3]] | rename -c { a: ham }
```
But we can rename many columns easily, here is another example:
```nushell
[[a, b, c]; [1, 2, 3]] | rename -c { a: ham, b: ham2 }
```
