nushell/crates/nu-cmd-extra
Stefan Holderbach 95b78eee25
Change the usage misnomer to "description" (#13598)
# Description
    
The meaning of the word usage is specific to describing how a command
function is *used* and not a synonym for general description. Usage can
be used to describe the SYNOPSIS or EXAMPLES sections of a man page
where the permitted argument combinations are shown or example *uses*
are given.
Let's not confuse people and call it what it is a description.

Our `help` command already creates its own *Usage* section based on the
available arguments and doesn't refer to the description with usage.

# User-Facing Changes

`help commands` and `scope commands` will now use `description` or
`extra_description`
`usage`-> `description`
`extra_usage` -> `extra_description`

Breaking change in the plugin protocol:

In the signature record communicated with the engine.
`usage`-> `description`
`extra_usage` -> `extra_description`

The same rename also takes place for the methods on
`SimplePluginCommand` and `PluginCommand`

# Tests + Formatting
- Updated plugin protocol specific changes
# After Submitting
- [ ] update plugin protocol doc
2024-08-22 12:02:08 +02:00
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assets REFACTOR: move the 0% commands to nu-cmd-extra (#9404) 2023-07-06 08:31:31 -07:00
src Change the usage misnomer to "description" (#13598) 2024-08-22 12:02:08 +02:00
tests Make into bits produce bitstring stream (#13310) 2024-07-07 08:00:57 -05:00
Cargo.toml Bump version to 0.97.2 (#13666) 2024-08-22 11:36:32 +02:00
LICENSE nu-cmd-extra crate infrastructure in place with the Bits command as the model for adding other commands (#9327) 2023-06-01 10:46:16 -07:00
README.md Remove feat extra and include in default (#12140) 2024-03-10 17:29:02 +01:00

nu-cmd-extra

The commands in this crate are the extra commands of Nushell. These commands are not in a state to be guaranteed to be part of the 1.0 API; meaning that there is no guarantee longer term that these commands will be around into the future.

For a while we did exclude them behind the --features extra compile time flag, meaning that the default release did not contain them. As we (the Nushell team) shipped a full build including both extra and dataframe for some time, we chose to sunset the extra feature but keep the commands in this crate for now. In the future the commands may be moved to more topical crates or discarded into plugins.