# Description
We've had a lot of different issues and PRs related to arg handling with
externals since the rewrite of `run-external` in #12921:
- #12950
- #12955
- #13000
- #13001
- #13021
- #13027
- #13028
- #13073
Many of these are caused by the argument handling of external calls and
`run-external` being very special and involving the parser handing
quoted strings over to `run-external` so that it knows whether to expand
tildes and globs and so on. This is really unusual and also makes it
harder to use `run-external`, and also harder to understand it (and
probably is part of the reason why it was rewritten in the first place).
This PR moves a lot more of that work over to the parser, so that by the
time `run-external` gets it, it's dealing with much more normal Nushell
values. In particular:
- Unquoted strings are handled as globs with no expand
- The unescaped-but-quoted handling of strings was removed, and the
parser constructs normal looking strings instead, removing internal
quotes so that `run-external` doesn't have to do it
- Bare word interpolation is now supported and expansion is done in this
case
- Expressions typed as `Glob` containing `Expr::StringInterpolation` now
produce `Value::Glob` instead, with the quoted status from the expr
passed through so we know if it was a bare word
- Bare word interpolation for values typed as `glob` now possible, but
not implemented
- Because expansion is now triggered by `Value::Glob(_, false)` instead
of looking at the expr, externals now support glob types
# User-Facing Changes
- Bare word interpolation works for external command options, and
otherwise embedded in other strings:
```nushell
^echo --foo=(2 + 2) # prints --foo=4
^echo -foo=$"(2 + 2)" # prints -foo=4
^echo foo="(2 + 2)" # prints (no interpolation!) foo=(2 + 2)
^echo foo,(2 + 2),bar # prints foo,4,bar
```
- Bare word interpolation expands for external command head/args:
```nushell
let name = "exa"
~/.cargo/bin/($name) # this works, and expands the tilde
^$"~/.cargo/bin/($name)" # this doesn't expand the tilde
^echo ~/($name)/* # this glob is expanded
^echo $"~/($name)/*" # this isn't expanded
```
- Ndots are now supported for the head of an external command
(`^.../foo` works)
- Glob values are now supported for head/args of an external command,
and expanded appropriately:
```nushell
^("~/.cargo/bin/exa" | into glob) # the tilde is expanded
^echo ("*.txt" | into glob) # this glob is expanded
```
- `run-external` now works more like any other command, without
expecting a special call convention
for its args:
```nushell
run-external echo "'foo'"
# before PR: 'foo'
# after PR: foo
run-external echo "*.txt"
# before PR: (glob is expanded)
# after PR: *.txt
```
# Tests + Formatting
Lots of tests added and cleaned up. Some tests that weren't active on
Windows changed to use `nu --testbin cococo` so that they can work.
Added a test for Linux only to make sure tilde expansion of commands
works, because changing `HOME` there causes `~` to reliably change.
- 🟢 `toolkit fmt`
- 🟢 `toolkit clippy`
- 🟢 `toolkit test`
- 🟢 `toolkit test stdlib`
# After Submitting
- [ ] release notes: make sure to mention the new syntaxes that are
supported
# Description
First part of SpanID refactoring series. This PR adds a `SpanId` type
and a corresponding `span_id` field to `Expression`. Parser creating
expressions will now add them to an array in `StateWorkingSet`,
generates a corresponding ID and saves the ID to the Expression. The IDs
are not used anywhere yet.
For the rough overall plan, see
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/12963.
# User-Facing Changes
Hopefully none. This is only a refactor of Nushell's internals that
shouldn't have visible side effects.
# Tests + Formatting
# After Submitting
# Description
On 64-bit platforms the current size of `Value` is 56 bytes. The
limiting variants were `Closure` and `Range`. Boxing the two reduces the
size of Value to 48 bytes. This is the minimal size possible with our
current 16-byte `Span` and any 24-byte `Vec` container which we use in
several variants. (Note the extra full 8-bytes necessary for the
discriminant or other smaller values due to the 8-byte alignment of
`usize`)
This is leads to a size reduction of ~15% for `Value` and should overall
be beneficial as both `Range` and `Closure` are rarely used compared to
the primitive types or even our general container types.
# User-Facing Changes
Less memory used, potential runtime benefits.
(Too late in the evening to run the benchmarks myself right now)
# Description
this PR
- moves the documentation from `lib.rs` to `README.md` while still
including it in the lib file, so that both the [crates.io
page](https://crates.io/crates/nuon) and the
[documentation](https://docs.rs/nuon/latest/nuon/) show the top-level
doc
- mention that comments are allowed in NUON
- add a JSON-NUON example
- put back the formatting of NOTE blocks in the doc
# User-Facing Changes
# Tests + Formatting
# After Submitting
# Description
_cell paths_ can be easily serialized back and forth to NUON with the
leading `$.` syntax.
# User-Facing Changes
```nushell
$.foo.bar.0 | to nuon
```
and
```nushell
"$.foo.bar.0" | from nuon
```
are now possible
# Tests + Formatting
a new `cell_path` test has been added to `nuon`
# After Submitting
# Description
Removes lazy records from the language, following from the reasons
outlined in #12622. Namely, this should make semantics more clear and
will eliminate concerns regarding maintainability.
# User-Facing Changes
- Breaking change: `lazy make` is removed.
- Breaking change: `describe --collect-lazyrecords` flag is removed.
- `sys` and `debug info` now return regular records.
# After Submitting
- Update nushell book if necessary.
- Explore new `sys` and `debug info` APIs to prevent them from taking
too long (e.g., subcommands or taking an optional column/cell-path
argument).
# Description
This PR adds raw string support by using `r#` at the beginning of single
quoted strings and `#` at the end.
Notice that escapes do not process, even within single quotes,
parentheses don't mean anything, $variables don't mean anything. It's
just a string.
```nushell
❯ echo r#'one\ntwo (blah) ($var)'#
one\ntwo (blah) ($var)
```
Notice how they work without `echo` or `print` and how they work without
carriage returns.
```nushell
❯ r#'adsfa'#
adsfa
❯ r##"asdfa'@qpejq'##
asdfa'@qpejq
❯ r#'asdfasdfasf
∙ foqwejfqo@'23rfjqf'#
```
They also have a special configurable color in the repl. (use single
quotes though)
They should work like rust raw literals and allow `r##`, `r###`,
`r####`, etc, to help with having one or many `#`'s in the middle of
your raw-string.
They should work with `let` as well.
```nushell
r#'some\nraw\nstring'# | str upcase
```
closes https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/5091
# User-Facing Changes
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> **Note**
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---------
Co-authored-by: WindSoilder <WindSoilder@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: Ian Manske <ian.manske@pm.me>
# Description
Continuing from #12568, this PR further reduces the size of `Expr` from
64 to 40 bytes. It also reduces `Expression` from 128 to 96 bytes and
`Type` from 32 to 24 bytes.
This was accomplished by:
- for `Expr` with multiple fields (e.g., `Expr::Thing(A, B, C)`),
merging the fields into new AST struct types and then boxing this struct
(e.g. `Expr::Thing(Box<ABC>)`).
- replacing `Vec<T>` with `Box<[T]>` in multiple places. `Expr`s and
`Expression`s should rarely be mutated, if at all, so this optimization
makes sense.
By reducing the size of these types, I didn't notice a large performance
improvement (at least compared to #12568). But this PR does reduce the
memory usage of nushell. My config is somewhat light so I only noticed a
difference of 1.4MiB (38.9MiB vs 37.5MiB).
---------
Co-authored-by: Stefan Holderbach <sholderbach@users.noreply.github.com>
follow-up to
- https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/12591
cc/ @fdncred
# Description
there was a typo in the doc of `nuon::ToStyle`.
# User-Facing Changes
# Tests + Formatting
# After Submitting
# Description
`Value` describes the types of first-class values that users and scripts
can create, manipulate, pass around, and store. However, `Block`s are
not first-class values in the language, so this PR removes it from
`Value`. This removes some unnecessary code, and this change should be
invisible to the user except for the change to `scope modules` described
below.
# User-Facing Changes
Breaking change: the output of `scope modules` was changed so that
`env_block` is now `has_env_block` which is a boolean value instead of a
`Block`.
# After Submitting
Update the language guide possibly.
# Description
in order to change the style of the _serialized_ NUON data,
`nuon::to_nuon` takes three mutually exclusive arguments, `raw: bool`,
`tabs: Option<usize>` and `indent: Option<usize>` 🤔
this begs to use an enumeration with all possible alternatives, right?
this PR changes the signature of `nuon::to_nuon` to use `nuon::ToStyle`
which has three variants
- `Raw`: no newlines
- `Tabs(n: usize)`: newlines and `n` tabulations as indent
- `Spaces(n: usize)`: newlines and `n` spaces as indent
# User-Facing Changes
the signature of `nuon::to_nuon` changes from
```rust
to_nuon(
input: &Value,
raw: bool,
tabs: Option<usize>,
indent: Option<usize>,
span: Option<Span>,
) -> Result<String, ShellError>
```
to
```rust
to_nuon(
input: &Value,
style: ToStyle,
span: Option<Span>
) -> Result<String, ShellError>
```
# Tests + Formatting
# After Submitting
# Description
playing with the NUON format in Rust code in some plugins, we agreed
with the team it was a great time to create a standalone NUON format to
allow Rust devs to use this Nushell file format.
> **Note**
> this PR almost copy-pastes the code from
`nu_commands/src/formats/from/nuon.rs` and
`nu_commands/src/formats/to/nuon.rs` to `nuon/src/from.rs` and
`nuon/src/to.rs`, with minor tweaks to make then standalone functions,
e.g. remove the rest of the command implementations
### TODO
- [x] add tests
- [x] add documentation
# User-Facing Changes
devs will have access to a new crate, `nuon`, and two functions,
`from_nuon` and `to_nuon`
```rust
from_nuon(
input: &str,
span: Option<Span>,
) -> Result<Value, ShellError>
```
```rust
to_nuon(
input: &Value,
raw: bool,
tabs: Option<usize>,
indent: Option<usize>,
span: Option<Span>,
) -> Result<String, ShellError>
```
# Tests + Formatting
i've basically taken all the tests from
`crates/nu-command/tests/format_conversions/nuon.rs` and converted them
to use `from_nuon` and `to_nuon` instead of Nushell commands
- i've created a `nuon_end_to_end` to run both conversions with an
optional middle value to check that all is fine
> **Note**
> the `nuon::tests::read_code_should_fail_rather_than_panic` test does
give different results locally and in the CI...
> i've left it ignored with comments to help future us :)
# After Submitting
mention that in the release notes for sure!!
