We introduce it here and allow it to work with regular lists (tables with no columns) as well as symmetric tables. Say we have two lists and wish to zip them, like so:
```
[0 2 4 6 8] | zip {
[1 3 5 7 9]
} | flatten
───┬───
0 │ 0
1 │ 1
2 │ 2
3 │ 3
4 │ 4
5 │ 5
6 │ 6
7 │ 7
8 │ 8
9 │ 9
───┴───
```
In the case for two tables instead:
```
[[symbol]; ['('] ['['] ['{']] | zip {
[[symbol]; [')'] [']'] ['}']]
} | each {
get symbol | $'($in.0)nushell($in.1)'
}
───┬───────────
0 │ (nushell)
1 │ [nushell]
2 │ {nushell}
───┴───────────
```
* Mitigate history file bug in Rustyline
Rustyline's duplicate ignoring code has a bug that can cause data loss and
history file corruption. Testing seems to indicate that disabling this behavior
and allowing duplicates will prevent the bug from showing up. Many people have
complained about this issue, I think it is worthwhile to fix the bug at the cost
of permitting duplicate history entries.
Upstream bug: https://github.com/kkawakam/rustyline/issues/559
* Increase Rustyline historyfile limit
Rustyline will only store 100 history items by default. This is quite a small
limit for a shell that people use as a daily driver. Especially when the
deduplication code is removed, we will hit that limit quickly and start to lose
history. This commit bumps the limit up to 10k. We can discuss if this is an
inappropriate limit or if we should allow users to specify this setting in their
nushell config file instead.
We very well support `nth 0 2 3 --skip 1 4` to select particular rows and skip some using a flag. However, in practice we deal with tables (whether they come from parsing or loading files and whatnot) where we don't know the size of the table up front (and everytime we have these, they may have different sizes). There are also other use cases when we use intermediate tables during processing and wish to always drop certain rows and **keep the rest**.
Usage:
```
... | drop nth 0
... | drop nth 3 8
```
The nu-serde crate allows us to become much more generic with respect to how we
convert output to `nu-protocol::Value`s. This allows us to remove a lot of the
special-case code that we wrote for deserializing JSON values.
Co-authored-by: Darren Schroeder <343840+fdncred@users.noreply.github.com>
* Add the nu-serde crate
nu-serde is a crate that can be used to turn a value implementing
`serde::Serialize` into a `nu-protocol::Value`. This has the potential to
significantly simplify plugin authorship.
This crate was the previously independent
[serde-nu](https://github.com/lily-mara/serde-nu) but the nushell maintainers
expressed an interest in having it added to the mainline nushell repository.
* fixup! Add the nu-serde crate
