* Allow environment variables to be hidden
This change allows environment variables in Nushell to have a value of
`Nothing`, which can be set by the user by passing `$nothing` to
`let-env` and friends.
Environment variables with a value of Nothing behave as if they are not
set at all. This allows a user to shadow the value of an environment
variable in a parent scope, effectively removing it from their current
scope. This was not possible before, because a scope can not affect its
parent scopes.
This is a workaround for issues like #3920.
Additionally, this allows a user to simultaneously set, change and
remove multiple environment variables via `load-env`. Any environment
variables set to $nothing will be hidden and thus act as if they are
removed. This simplifies working with virtual environments, which rely
on setting multiple environment variables, including PATH, to specific
values, and remove/change them on deactivation.
One surprising behavior is that an environment variable set to $nothing
will act as if it is not set when querying it (via $nu.env.X), but it is
still possible to remove it entirely via `unlet-env`. If the same
environment variable is present in the parent scope, the value in the
parent scope will be visible to the user. This might be surprising
behavior to users who are not familiar with the implementation details.
An additional corner case is the the shorthand form of `with-env` does
not work with this feature. Using `X=$nothing` will set $nu.env.X to the
string "$nothing". The long-form works as expected: `with-env [X
$nothing] {...}`.
* Remove unused import
* Allow all primitives to be convert to strings
Some environment variables, such as `RUST_LOG` include equals signs. Nushell
should support this in the shorthand environment variable syntax so that
developers using these variables can control them easily. We accomplish this by
swapping `std::str::split` for `std::str::splitn`, which ensures that we only
consider the first equals sign in the string instead of all of them, which we
did previously.
Closes#3867
Added test cases that ensure that special characters in path names are passed
to external commands correctly. These cases have been implemented with rstest
to reuse existing test code.
* Add the load-env command
load-env can be used to add environment variables dynamically via an
InputStream. This allows developers to create tools that output environment
variables as key-value pairs, then have the user load those variables in using
load-env. This supplants most of the need for an `eval` command, which is
mostly used in POSIX envs for setting env vars.
Fixes#3481
* fixup! Add the load-env command
* Revert "History, more test coverage improvements, and refactorings. (#3217)"
This reverts commit 8fc8fc89aa.
* Add tests
* Refactor .nu-env
* Change logic of Config write to logic of read()
* Fix reload always appends to old vars
* Fix reload always takes last_modified of global config
* Add reload_config in evaluation context
* Reload config after writing to it in cfg set / cfg set_into
* Add --no-history to cli options
* Use --no-history in tests
* Add comment about maybe_print_errors
* Get ctrl_exit var from context.global_config
* Use context.global_config in command "config"
* Add Readme in engine how env vars are now handled
* Update docs from autoenv command
* Move history_path from engine to nu_data
* Move load history out of if
* No let before return
* Add import for indexmap
