# Description
- A new one is the removal of unnecessary `#` in raw strings without `"`
inside.
-
https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#/needless_raw_string_hashes
- The automatically applied removal of `.into_iter()` touched several
places where #9648 will change to the use of the record API. If
necessary I can remove them @IanManske to avoid churn with this PR.
- Manually applied `.try_fold` in two places
- Removed a dead `if`
- Manual: Combat rightward-drift with early return
# Description
This extends the syntax fix for `let` (#9589) to `mut` as well.
Example: `mut x = "hello world" | str length; print $x`
closes#9634
# User-Facing Changes
`mut` now joins `let` in being able to be assigned from a pipeline
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# Description
This changes the default behaviour of `let` to be able to take a
pipeline as its initial value.
For example:
```
> let x = "hello world" | str length
```
This is a change from the existing behaviour, where the right hand side
is assumed to be an expression. Pipelines are more general, and can be
more powerful.
My google foo is failing me, but this also fixes this issue:
```
let x = foo
```
Currently, this reads `foo` as a bareword that gets converted to a
string rather than running the `foo` command. In practice, this is
really annoying and is a really hard to spot bug in a script.
# User-Facing Changes
BREAKING CHANGE BREAKING CHANGE
`let` gains the power to be assigned via a pipeline. However, this
changes the behaviour of `let x = foo` from assigning the string "foo"
to `$x` to being "run the command `foo` and give the result to `$x`"
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# Description
For years, Nushell has used `let-env` to set a single environment
variable. As our work on scoping continued, we refined what it meant for
a variable to be in scope using `let` but never updated how `let-env`
would work. Instead, `let-env` confusingly created mutations to the
command's copy of `$env`.
So, to help fix the mental model and point people to the right way of
thinking about what changing the environment means, this PR removes
`let-env` to encourage people to think of it as updating the command's
environment variable via mutation.
Before:
```
let-env FOO = "BAR"
```
Now:
```
$env.FOO = "BAR"
```
It's also a good reminder that the environment owned by the command is
in the `$env` variable rather than global like it is in other shells.
# User-Facing Changes
BREAKING CHANGE BREAKING CHANGE
This completely removes `let-env FOO = "BAR"` so that we can focus on
`$env.FOO = "BAR"`.
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# After / Before Submitting
integration scripts to update:
- ✔️
[starship](https://github.com/starship/starship/blob/master/src/init/starship.nu)
- ✔️
[virtualenv](https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/blob/main/src/virtualenv/activation/nushell/activate.nu)
- ✔️
[atuin](https://github.com/ellie/atuin/blob/main/atuin/src/shell/atuin.nu)
(PR: https://github.com/ellie/atuin/pull/1080)
- ❌
[zoxide](https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide/blob/main/templates/nushell.txt)
(PR: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide/pull/587)
- ✔️
[oh-my-posh](https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/blob/main/src/shell/scripts/omp.nu)
(pr: https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/pull/4011)
# Description
Add `test_examples()` to `use` that verifies its examples. For that, add
the necessary definitions and the `PWD` to the `nu-cmd-lang` test
support.
Note: `let-env` is a `nu-command` and thus not accessible from the
`nu-cmd-lang` tests. So replace `let-env` with `$env.<var> =`. This
should be fine, since `let-env` is supposed to be removed before 1.0
anyway.
# User-Facing Changes
Nothing
# Question for reviewer
Is there any particular reason why so many core commands (parser
keywords) don't verify their examples with tests? E.g. `break`, `hide`,
`overlay use`, etc. (I think most of them?). If there is no particular
reason, I'd make a follow up PR to enable tests for as many of them as
possible.
# Description
This splits off `scope` from `$nu`, creating a set of `scope` commands
for the various types of scope you might be interested in.
This also simplifies the `$nu` variable a bit.
# User-Facing Changes
This changes `$nu` to be a bit simpler and introduces a set of `scope`
subcommands.
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This PR reverts https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/9391
We try not to revert PRs like this, though after discussion with the
Nushell team, we decided to revert this one.
The main reason is that Nushell, as a codebase, isn't ready for these
kinds of optimisations. It's in the part of the development cycle where
our main focus should be on improving the algorithms inside of Nushell
itself. Once we have matured our algorithms, then we can look for
opportunities to switch out technologies we're using for alternate
forms.
Much of Nushell still has lots of opportunities for tuning the codebase,
paying down technical debt, and making the codebase generally cleaner
and more robust. This should be the focus. Performance improvements
should flow out of that work.
Said another, optimisation that isn't part of tuning the codebase is
premature at this stage. We need to focus on doing the hard work of
making the engine, parser, etc better.
# User-Facing Changes
Reverts the HashMap -> ahash change.
cc @FilipAndersson245
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this PR makes nushell use mimalloc as the default allocator, this has
the benefit of reducing startup time on my machine. `17%` on linux and
`22%` on windows, when testing using hyperfine.
the overhead to compile seem to be quite small, aswell as the increase
of binary size quite small
on linux the binary went from `33.1mb` to `33.2mb`
linux
![image](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/17986183/ba5379b4-2c08-483a-a9ff-a9d8524d2943)
windows
![image](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/17986183/fda5090f-96a9-48d1-ada4-617694b9d880)
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# Description
Make sure that our different crates that contain commands can be
compiled in parallel.
This can under certain circumstances accelerate the compilation with
sufficient multithreading available.
## Details
- Move `help` commands from `nu-cmd-lang` back to `nu-command`
- This also makes sense as the commands are implemented in an
ANSI-terminal specific way
- Make `nu-cmd-lang` only a dev dependency for `nu-command`
- Change context creation helpers for `nu-cmd-extra` and
`nu-cmd-dataframe` to have a consistent api used in
`src/main.rs`:`get_engine_state()`
- `nu-command` now indepedent from `nu-cmd-extra` and `nu-cmd-dataframe`
that are now dependencies of `nu` directly. (change to internal
features)
- Fix tests that previously used `nu-command::create_default_context()`
with replacement functions
## From scratch compilation times:
just debug (dev) build and default features
```
cargo clean --profile dev && cargo build --timings
```
### before
![grafik](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/15833959/e49f1f42-2e53-4a6c-bc23-625b686af1bc)
### after
![grafik](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/15833959/8dec4723-e625-4a86-b91e-e6e808f64726)
# User-Facing Changes
None direct, only change to compilation on multithreaded jobs expected.
# Tests + Formatting
Tests that previously chose to use `nu-command` for their scope will
still use `nu-cmd-lang` + `nu-command` (command list in the granularity
at the time)
# Description
see https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/9390
using `ahash` instead of the default hasher. this will not affect
compile time as we where already building `ahash`.
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This change introduces new `search_result` style supported in the color
config. The change also removes obsolete check for `config.ls_colors`
for computing the style. `config.ls_colors` has been removed last year,
so this removes the reference to the obsolete flag, along with a cleanup
that removes all the code that used to rely on ls_colors for
highlighting search results.
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# Description
Addresses missing features per #9261
# User-Facing Changes
Fixes output of version. Adds wasi feature output
# Tests + Formatting
No tests written
Co-authored-by: Robert Waugh <robert@waugh.io>
# Description
Despite the innocent-looking title, this PR involves quite a few backend
changes as the existing LazyRecord trait was not at all friendly towards
the idea of these values being generated on the fly from Nu code.
In particular, here are a few changes involved:
- The LazyRecord trait now involves a lifetime `'a`, and this lifetime
is used in the return value of `get_column_names`. This means it no
longer returns `'static str`s (but implementations still can return
these). This is more stringent on the consumption side.
- The LazyRecord trait now must be able to clone itself via a new
`clone_value` method (as requiring `Clone` is not object safe). This
pattern is borrowed from `Value::CustomValue`.
- LazyRecord no longer requires being serde serializable and
deserializable.
These, in hand, allow for the following:
- LazyRecord can now clone itself, which means that they don't have to
be collected into a Record when being cloned.
- This is especially useful in Stack, which is cloned on each repl line
and in a few other cases. This would mean that _every_ LazyRecord
instance stored in a variable would be collected in its entirety and
cloned, which can be catastrophic for performance. See: `let nulol =
$nu`.
- LazyRecord's columns don't have to be static, they can have the same
lifetime of the struct itself, so different instances of the same
LazyRecord type can have different columns and values (like the new
`NuLazyRecord`)
- Serialization and deserialization are no longer meaningless, they are
simply less.
I would consider this PR very "drafty", but everything works. It
probably requires some cleanup and testing, though, but I'd like some
eyes and pointers first.
# User-Facing Changes
New command. New restrictions are largely internal. Maybe there are some
plugins affected?
Example of new command's usage:
```
lazy make --columns [a b c] --get-value { |name| print $"getting ($name)"; $name | str upcase }
```
You can also trivially implement something like `lazy make record` to
take a record of closures and turn it into a getter-like lazy struct:
```
def "lazy make record" [
record: record
] {
let columns = ($record | columns)
lazy make --columns $columns --get-value { |col| do ($record | get $col) }
}
```
Open to bikeshedding. `lazy make` is similar to `error make` which is
also in the core commands. I didn't like `make lazy` since it sounded
like some transformation was going on.
# Tour for reviewers
Take a look at LazyMake's examples. They have `None` as the results, as
such they aren't _really_ correct and aren't being tested at all. I
didn't do this because creating the Value::LazyRecord is a little tricky
and didn't want to risk messing it up, especially as the necessary
variables aren't available when creating the examples (like stack and
engine state).
Also take a look at NuLazyRecord's get_value implementation, or in
general. It uses an Arc<Mutex<_>> for the stack, which must be accessed
mutably for eval_block but get_value only provides us with a `&self`.
This is a sad state of affairs, but I don't know if there's a better
way.
On the same code path, we also have pipeline handling, and any pipeline
that isn't a Pipeline::Value will return Value::nothing. I believe
returning a Value::Error is probably better, or maybe some other
handling. Couldn't decide on which ShellError to settle with for that
branch.
The "unfortunate casualty" in the columns.rs file. I'm not sure just how
bad that is, though, I simply had to fight a little with the borrow
checker.
A few leftover comments like derives, comments about the now
non-existing serde requirements, and impls. I'll definitely get around
to those eventually but they're in atm
Should NuLazyRecord implement caching? I'm leaning heavily towards
**yes**, this was one of the main reasons not to use a record of
closures (besides convenience), but maybe it could be opt-out. I'd
wonder about its implementation too, but a simple way would be to move a
HashMap into the mutex state and keep cached values there.
# Description
Extends the `extern` syntax to allow commands that accept raw arguments.
This is mainly added to allow wrapper type scripts for external
commands.
This is an example on how this can be used:
```nushell
extern foo [...rest] {
print ($rest | str join ',' )
}
foo --bar baz -- -q -u -x
# => --bar,baz,--,-q,-u,-x
```
(It's only possible to accept a single ...varargs argument in the
signature)
# User-Facing Changes
No breaking changes, just extra possibilities.
# Tests + Formatting
Added a test for this new behaviour and ran the toolkit pr checker
# After Submitting
This is advanced functionality but it should be documented, I will open
a new PR on the book for that
Co-authored-by: Jelle Besseling <jelle@bigbridge.nl>
# Description
The `members` parameter of `use` is specified as type `any`, but it's
really a string or list of strings or `*`. So add some examples that
mention what you can specify for `members`.
Also mention `help modules` and `help std`, since you probably want to
use the standard library or another defined modules.
Sidenote: I tried to run the examples for `use` as tests like is done
for the other commands. That panics with `missing module command`. I
assume this is known.
# User-Facing Changes
`help use` now looks like this:
```nushell
Use definitions from a module, making them available in your shell.
See `help std` for the standard library module.
See `help modules` to list all available modules.
This command is a parser keyword. For details, check:
https://www.nushell.sh/book/thinking_in_nu.html
Usage:
> use <module> (members)
Flags:
-h, --help - Display the help message for this command
Parameters:
module <string>: Module or module file
(optional) members <any>: Which members of the module to import
Examples:
Define a custom command in a module and call it
> module spam { export def foo [] { "foo" } }; use spam foo; foo
foo
Define a custom command that participates in the environment in a module and call it
> module foo { export def-env bar [] { let-env FOO_BAR = "BAZ" } }; use foo bar; bar; $env.FOO_BAR
BAZ
Use a plain module name to import its definitions qualified by the module name
> module spam { export def foo [] { "foo" }; export def bar [] { "bar" } }; use spam; (spam foo) + (spam bar)
foobar
Specify * to use all definitions in a module
> module spam { export def foo [] { "foo" }; export def bar [] { "bar" } }; use spam *; (foo) + (bar)
foobar
To use commands with spaces, like subcommands, surround them with quotes
> module spam { export def 'foo bar' [] { "baz" } }; use spam 'foo bar'; foo bar
baz
To use multiple definitions from a module, wrap them in a list
> module spam { export def foo [] { "foo" }; export def 'foo bar' [] { "baz" } }; use spam ['foo', 'foo bar']; (foo) + (foo bar)
foobaz
```
# Description
follow up to #8529
cleaned up version of #8892
- the original syntax is okay
```nu
def okay [rec: record] {}
```
- you can now add type annotations for fields if you know
them before hand
```nu
def okay [rec: record<name: string>] {}
```
- you can specify multiple fields
```nu
def okay [person: record<name: string age: int>] {}
# an optional comma is allowed
def okay [person: record<name: string, age: int>] {}
```
- if annotations are specified, any use of the command will be type
checked against the specified type
```nu
def unwrap [result: record<ok: bool, value: any>] {}
unwrap {ok: 2, value: "value"}
# errors with
Error: nu::parser::type_mismatch
× Type mismatch.
╭─[entry #4:1:1]
1 │ unwrap {ok: 2, value: "value"}
· ───────┬─────
· ╰── expected record<ok: bool, value: any>, found record<ok: int, value: string>
╰────
```
> here the error is in the `ok` field, since `any` is coerced into any
type
> as a result `unwrap {ok: true, value: "value"}` is okay
- the key must be a string, either quoted or unquoted
```nu
def err [rec: record<{}: list>] {}
# errors with
Error:
× `record` type annotations key not string
╭─[entry #7:1:1]
1 │ def unwrap [result: record<{}: bool, value: any>] {}
· ─┬
· ╰── must be a string
╰────
```
- a key doesn't have to have a type in which case it is assumed to be
`any`
```nu
def okay [person: record<name age>] {}
def okay [person: record<name: string age>] {}
```
- however, if you put a colon, you have to specify a type
```nu
def err [person: record<name: >] {}
# errors with
Error: nu::parser::parse_mismatch
× Parse mismatch during operation.
╭─[entry #12:1:1]
1 │ def unwrap [res: record<name: >] { $res }
· ┬
· ╰── expected type after colon
╰────
```
# User-Facing Changes
**[BREAKING CHANGES]**
- this change adds a field to `SyntaxShape::Record` so any plugins that
used it will have to update and include the field. though if you are
unsure of the type the record expects, `SyntaxShape::Record(vec![])`
will suffice
# Description
It's an addition to https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/8618
And I think it's good to keep the same behavior when we use for loop for
list.
# User-Facing Changes
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# Description
Part of the larger cratification effort.
Moves all `reedline` or shell line editor specific commands to `nu-cli`.
## From `nu-cmd-lang`:
- `commandline`
- This shouldn't have moved there. Doesn't directly depend on reedline
but assumes parts in the engine state that are specific to the use of
reedline or a REPL
## From `nu-command`:
- `keybindings` and subcommands
- `keybindings default`
- `keybindings list`
- `keybindings listen`
- very `reedline` specific
- `history`
- needs `reedline`
- `history session`
## internal use
Instead of having a separate `create_default_context()` that calls
`nu-command`'s `create_default_context()`, I added a `add_cli_context()`
that updates an `EngineState`
# User-Facing Changes
None
## Build time comparison
`cargo build --timings` from a `cargo clean --profile dev`
### total
main: 64 secs
this: 59 secs
### `nu-command` build time
branch | total| codegen | fraction
---|---|---|---
main | 14.0s | 6.2s | (44%)
this | 12.5s | 5.5s | (44%)
`nu-cli` depends on `nu-command` at the moment.
Thus it is built during the code-gen phase of `nu-command` (on 16
virtual cores)
# Tests + Formatting
I removed the `test_example()` facilities for now as we had not run any
of the commands in an `Example` test and importing the right context for
those tests seemed more of a hassle than the duplicated
`test_examples()` implementations in `nu-cmd-lang` and `nu-command`
# Description
This is a pretty heavy refactor of the parser to support multiple parser
errors. It has a few issues we should address before landing:
- [x] In some cases, error quality has gotten worse `1 / "bob"` for
example
- [x] if/else isn't currently parsing correctly
- probably others
# User-Facing Changes
This may have error quality degradation as we adjust to the new error
reporting mechanism.
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
- `cargo run -- crates/nu-utils/standard_library/tests.nu` to run the
tests for the standard library
> **Note**
> from `nushell` you can also use the `toolkit` as follows
> ```bash
> use toolkit.nu # or use an `env_change` hook to activate it
automatically
> toolkit check pr
> ```
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
This removes autoprinting the final value of a loop, much in the same
spirit as not autoprinting values at the end of statements. As we fix
these corner cases, it becomes more consistent that to print to the
screen in a script, you use the `print` command.
This gives a noticeable performance improvement as a bonus.
Before:
```
C:\Source\nushell〉 for x in 1..10 { $x }
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
```
Now:
```
C:\Source\nushell〉 for x in 1..10 { $x }
C:\Source\nushell〉
```
# User-Facing Changes
**BREAKING CHANGE**
Loops like `for`, `loop`, and `while` will no longer automatically print
loop values to the screen.
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
> **Note**
> from `nushell` you can also use the `toolkit` as follows
> ```bash
> use toolkit.nu # or use an `env_change` hook to activate it
automatically
> toolkit check pr
> ```
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
This does a few speedups for tight loops:
* Caches the DeclId for `table` so we don't look it up. This means users
can't easily replace the default one, we might want to talk about this
tradeoff. The lookup for finding `table` in a tight loop is currently
pretty heavy. Might be another way to speed this up.
* `table` no longer pre-calculates the width. Instead, it only
calculates the width when printing a table or record.
* Use more efficient way of collecting the block of each loop
* When printing output, only get the config when needed
Combined, this drops the runtime from a million loop tight iteration
from 1sec 8ms to 236ms.
# User-Facing Changes
_(List of all changes that impact the user experience here. This helps
us keep track of breaking changes.)_
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
> **Note**
> from `nushell` you can also use the `toolkit` as follows
> ```bash
> use toolkit.nu # or use an `env_change` hook to activate it
automatically
> toolkit check pr
> ```
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
This moves the representation of variables on the stack to a Vec, which
more closely resembles a stack. For small numbers of variables live at
any one point, this tends to be more efficient than a HashMap. Having a
stack-like vector also allows us to remember a stack position,
temporarily push variables on, then quickly drop the stack back to the
original size when we're done. We'll need this capability to allow
matching inside of conditions.
On this mac, a simple run of:
`timeit { mut x = 1; while $x < 1000000 { $x += 1 } }`
Went from 1 sec 86 ms, down to 1 sec 2 ms. Clearly, we have a lot more
ground we can make up in looping speed 😅 but it's nice that for fixing
this to make matching easier, we also get a win in terms of lookup speed
for small numbers of variables.
# User-Facing Changes
Likely users won't (hopefully) see any negative impact and may even see
a small positive impact.
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
> **Note**
> from `nushell` you can also use the `toolkit` as follows
> ```bash
> use toolkit.nu # or use an `env_change` hook to activate it
automatically
> toolkit check pr
> ```
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
Fix patterns in pattern matching to properly declare their variables
when discovering which variables need to be closed over when creating a
closure.
Also, moves `collect` to core, so that the core language can use `$in`.
Fixes#8595
# User-Facing Changes
See above
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
> **Note**
> from `nushell` you can also use the `toolkit` as follows
> ```bash
> use toolkit.nu # or use an `env_change` hook to activate it
automatically
> toolkit check pr
> ```
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
This adds `match` and basic pattern matching.
An example:
```
match $x {
1..10 => { print "Value is between 1 and 10" }
{ foo: $bar } => { print $"Value has a 'foo' field with value ($bar)" }
[$a, $b] => { print $"Value is a list with two items: ($a) and ($b)" }
_ => { print "Value is none of the above" }
}
```
Like the recent changes to `if` to allow it to be used as an expression,
`match` can also be used as an expression. This allows you to assign the
result to a variable, eg) `let xyz = match ...`
I've also included a short-hand pattern for matching records, as I think
it might help when doing a lot of record patterns: `{$foo}` which is
equivalent to `{foo: $foo}`.
There are still missing components, so consider this the first step in
full pattern matching support. Currently missing:
* Patterns for strings
* Or-patterns (like the `|` in Rust)
* Patterns for tables (unclear how we want to match a table, so it'll
need some design)
* Patterns for binary values
* And much more
# User-Facing Changes
[see above]
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
> **Note**
> from `nushell` you can also use the `toolkit` as follows
> ```bash
> use toolkit.nu # or use an `env_change` hook to activate it
automatically
> toolkit check pr
> ```
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
This PR changes some help text to try and clarify how `register` works
when using from `nu -c`.
# User-Facing Changes
_(List of all changes that impact the user experience here. This helps
us keep track of breaking changes.)_
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
> **Note**
> from `nushell` you can also use the `toolkit` as follows
> ```bash
> use toolkit.nu # or use an `env_change` hook to activate it
automatically
> toolkit check pr
> ```
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
This is an experiment to see what switching the `let/let-env` family to
math expressions for initialisers would be like.
# User-Facing Changes
This would require any commands you call from `let x = <command here>`
(and similar family) to call the command in parentheses. `let x = (foo)`
to call `foo`.
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
> **Note**
> from `nushell` you can also use the `toolkit` as follows
> ```bash
> use toolkit.nu # or use an `env_change` hook to activate it
automatically
> toolkit check pr
> ```
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
this PR
- refactors `ErrorMake::run` to avoid duplicate branches depending on
the value of `--unspanned`
- completes the examples
1. show a really simple `error make` call, without any command
definition
2. show a complete error format with all possible fields
3. the command definition but with indentation and slightly better
description
- adds results to the first two examples
- gives meaningful error messages for all known "bad" error formats,
using the span of the error format or the span of `$format.label` to
better explain why the format is bad
# User-Facing Changes
users have now the following help
```bash
Examples:
Create a simple custom error
> error make {msg: "my custom error message"}
Create a more complex custom error
> error make {
msg: "my custom error message"
label: {
text: "my custom label text" # not mandatory unless $.label exists
start: 123 # not mandatory unless $.label.end is set
end: 456 # not mandatory unless $.label.start is set
}
}
Create a custom error for a custom command that shows the span of the argument
> def foo [x] {
let span = (metadata $x).span;
error make {
msg: "this is fishy"
label: {
text: "fish right here"
start: $span.start
end: $span.end
}
}
}
```
and the following error messages when the error format is bad
https://asciinema.org/a/568107🥳
# Tests + Formatting
- 🟢 `cargo fmt --all`
- 🟢 `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D
clippy::unwrap_used -A clippy::needless_collect`
- 🔴 `cargo test --workspace`
=> the tests do not pass but they do not pass on latest `main` either =>
i should `cargo clean`, but that's an expensive operation on my
machine...
# After Submitting
the documentation would have to be regenerated over on the website
Reverts nushell/nushell#8310
In anticipation that we may want to revert this PR. I'm starting the
process because of this issue.
This stopped working
```
let-env NU_LIB_DIRS = [
($nu.config-path | path dirname | path join 'scripts')
'C:\Users\username\source\repos\forks\nu_scripts'
($nu.config-path | path dirname)
]
```
You have to do this now instead.
```
const NU_LIB_DIRS = [
'C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\nushell\scripts'
'C:\Users\username\source\repos\forks\nu_scripts'
'C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\nushell'
]
```
In talking with @kubouch, he was saying that the `let-env` version
should keep working. Hopefully it's a small change.
# Description
As title, closes: #7921closes: #8273
# User-Facing Changes
when define a closure without pipe, nushell will raise error for now:
```
❯ let x = {ss ss}
Error: nu::parser::closure_missing_pipe
× Missing || inside closure
╭─[entry #2:1:1]
1 │ let x = {ss ss}
· ───┬───
· ╰── Parsing as a closure, but || is missing
╰────
help: Try add || to the beginning of closure
```
`any`, `each`, `all`, `where` command accepts closure, it forces user
input closure like `{||`, or parse error will returned.
```
❯ {major:2, minor:1, patch:4} | values | each { into string }
Error: nu::parser::closure_missing_pipe
× Missing || inside closure
╭─[entry #4:1:1]
1 │ {major:2, minor:1, patch:4} | values | each { into string }
· ───────┬───────
· ╰── Parsing as a closure, but || is missing
╰────
help: Try add || to the beginning of closure
```
`with-env`, `do`, `def`, `try` are special, they still remain the same,
although it says that it accepts a closure, but they don't need to be
written like `{||`, it's more likely a block but can capture variable
outside of scope:
```
❯ def test [input] { echo [0 1 2] | do { do { echo $input } } }; test aaa
aaa
```
Just realize that It's a big breaking change, we need to update config
and scripts...
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
Allow NU_LIBS_DIR and friends to be const they can be updated within the
same parse pass. This will allow us to remove having multiple config
files eventually.
Small implementation detail: I've changed `call.parser_info` to a
hashmap with string keys, so the information can have names rather than
indices, and we don't have to worry too much about the order in which we
put things into it.
Closes https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8422
# User-Facing Changes
In a single file, users can now do stuff like
```
const NU_LIBS_DIR = ['/some/path/here']
source script.nu
```
and the source statement will use the value of NU_LIBS_DIR declared the
line before.
Currently, if there is no `NU_LIBS_DIR` const, then we fallback to using
the value of the `NU_LIBS_DIR` env-var, so there are no breaking changes
(unless someone named a const NU_LIBS_DIR for some reason).
![2023-03-04-014103_hyprshot](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/13265529/222885263-135cdd0d-7884-438b-b2ed-c3979fa44463.png)
# Tests + Formatting
~~TODO: write tests~~ Done
# After Submitting
~~TODO: update docs~~ Will do when we update default_env.nu/merge
default_env.nu into default_config.nu.
# Description
This fixes the `commandline` command when it's run with no arguments, so
it outputs the command being run. New line characters are included.
This allows for:
- [A way to get current command inside pre_execution hook · Issue #6264
· nushell/nushell](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/6264)
- The possibility of *Atuin* to work work *Nushell*. *Atuin* hooks need
to know the current repl input before it is run.
# User-Facing Changes
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
Fixes: #8402#8391
The cause of these issue if when we want to evaluate a expression with
`Value::Error`, nushell show error immediately. To fix the issue, we can
wrap the `Value::Error` into a `Value::Record`. So user can see the
message he want.
# User-Facing Changes
Before
```
❯ try { 1 / 0 } catch {|e| echo $"error is ($e)"}
Error: nu:🐚:division_by_zero
× Division by zero.
╭─[entry #2:1:1]
1 │ try { 1 / 0 } catch {|e| echo $"error is ($e)"}
· ┬
· ╰── division by zero
╰────
```
After
```
❯ try { 1 / 0 } catch {|e| echo $"error is ($e)"}
error is {msg: Division by zero., debug: DivisionByZero { span: Span { start: 43104, end: 43105 } }, raw: DivisionByZero { sp
an: Span { start: 43104, end: 43105 } }}
```
As we can see, error becomes a record with `msg`, `debug`, `raw`
columns.
1. msg column is a user friendly message.
2. debug column is more about `Value::Error` information as a string.
3. raw column is a `Value::Error` itself, if user want to re-raise the
error, just use `$e | get raw`
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
> **Note**
> from `nushell` you can also use the `toolkit` as follows
> ```bash
> use toolkit.nu # or use an `env_change` hook to activate it
automatically
> toolkit check pr
> ```
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
`help externs` - command, which list external commands
Closes https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8301
# User-Facing Changes
```nu
$ help externs
╭───┬──────────────┬─────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ # │ name │ module_name │ usage │
├───┼──────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 0 │ git push │ completions │ Push changes │
│ │ │ │ │
│ 1 │ git fetch │ completions │ Download objects and refs from another repository │
│ │ │ │ │
│ 2 │ git checkout │ completions │ Check out git branches and files │
│ │ │ │ │
╰───┴──────────────┴─────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
```
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
Our `ShellError` at the moment has a `std::mem::size_of<ShellError>` of
136 bytes (on AMD64). As a result `Value` directly storing the struct
also required 136 bytes (thanks to alignment requirements).
This change stores the `Value::Error` `ShellError` on the heap.
Pro:
- Value now needs just 80 bytes
- Should be 1 cacheline less (still at least 2 cachelines)
Con:
- More small heap allocations when dealing with `Value::Error`
- More heap fragmentation
- Potential for additional required memcopies
# Further code changes
Includes a small refactor of `try` due to a type mismatch in its large
match.
# User-Facing Changes
None for regular users.
Plugin authors may have to update their matches on `Value` if they use
`nu-protocol`
Needs benchmarking to see if there is a benefit in real world workloads.
**Update** small improvements in runtime for workloads with high volume
of values. Significant reduction in maximum resident set size, when many
values are held in memory.
# Tests + Formatting
A tiny fix: make the naming of the `sqlite` feature consistent across
both `Cargo.toml` and the `version` command's output. Previously
`version` displayed it as `database`, a user was asking about that the
other day.
Continuation of #8229 and #8326
# Description
The `ShellError` enum at the moment is kind of messy.
Many variants are basic tuple structs where you always have to reference
the implementation with its macro invocation to know which field serves
which purpose.
Furthermore we have both variants that are kind of redundant or either
overly broad to be useful for the user to match on or overly specific
with few uses.
So I set out to start fixing the lacking documentation and naming to
make it feasible to critically review the individual usages and fix
those.
Furthermore we can decide to join or split up variants that don't seem
to be fit for purpose.
# Call to action
**Everyone:** Feel free to add review comments if you spot inconsistent
use of `ShellError` variants.
# User-Facing Changes
(None now, end goal more explicit and consistent error messages)
# Tests + Formatting
(No additional tests needed so far)
# Commits (so far)
- Remove `ShellError::FeatureNotEnabled`
- Name fields on `SE::ExternalNotSupported`
- Name field on `SE::InvalidProbability`
- Name fields on `SE::NushellFailed` variants
- Remove unused `SE::NushellFailedSpannedHelp`
- Name field on `SE::VariableNotFoundAtRuntime`
- Name fields on `SE::EnvVarNotFoundAtRuntime`
- Name fields on `SE::ModuleNotFoundAtRuntime`
- Remove usused `ModuleOrOverlayNotFoundAtRuntime`
- Name fields on `SE::OverlayNotFoundAtRuntime`
- Name field on `SE::NotFound`
# Description
No real changes, just some cleanup while I was looking at the code of
the command.
# User-Facing Changes
Remove the attribute 'pkg_version', since it's already exposed through
'version'.
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.
# Description
Working on uniformizing the ending messages regarding methods usage()
and extra_usage(). This is related to the issue
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/5066 after discussing it with
@jntrnr
# User-Facing Changes
None.
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
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# Description
When the crate nu_cmd_lang crate was created last week example_test.rs
was copied over from nu_command
to nu_cmd_lang. By doing this there was a set of methods in
example_test.rs that existed in both crates...
This PR removes the redundancy by moving all of those duplicated methods
into the crate nu_test_support in a newly created file called
example_support.rs
_(Thank you for improving Nushell. Please, check our [contributing
guide](../CONTRIBUTING.md) and talk to the core team before making major
changes.)_
_(Description of your pull request goes here. **Provide examples and/or
screenshots** if your changes affect the user experience.)_
# User-Facing Changes
_(List of all changes that impact the user experience here. This helps
us keep track of breaking changes.)_
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
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clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
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- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
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# Description
This PR adds an alternative alias implementation. Old aliases still work
but you need to use `old-alias` instead of `alias`.
Instead of replacing spans in the original code and re-parsing, which
proved to be extremely error-prone and a constant source of panics, the
new implementation creates a new command that references the old
command. Consider the new alias defined as `alias ll = ls -l`. The
parser creates a new command called `ll` and remembers that it is
actually a `ls` command called with the `-l` flag. Then, when the parser
sees the `ll` command, it will translate it to `ls -l` and passes to it
any parameters that were passed to the call to `ll`. It works quite
similar to how known externals defined with `extern` are implemented.
The new alias implementation should work the same way as the old
aliases, including exporting from modules, referencing both known and
unknown externals. It seems to preserve custom completions and pipeline
metadata. It is quite robust in most cases but there are some rough
edges (see later).
Fixes https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/7648,
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8026,
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/7512,
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/5780,
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/7754
No effect: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8122 (we might
revisit the completions code after this PR)
Should use custom command instead:
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/6048
# User-Facing Changes
Since aliases are now basically commands, it has some new implications:
1. `alias spam = "spam"` (requires command call)
* **workaround**: use `alias spam = echo "spam"`
2. `def foo [] { 'foo' }; alias foo = ls -l` (foo defined more than
once)
* **workaround**: use different name (commands also have this
limitation)
4. `alias ls = (ls | sort-by type name -i)`
* **workaround**: Use custom command. _The common issue with this is
that it is currently not easy to pass flags through custom commands and
command referencing itself will lead to stack overflow. Both of these
issues are meant to be addressed._
5. TODO: Help messages, `which` command, `$nu.scope.aliases`, etc.
* Should we treat the aliases as commands or should they be separated
from regular commands?
6. Needs better error message and syntax highlight for recursed alias
(`alias f = f`)
7. Can't create alias with the same name as existing command (`alias ls
= ls -a`)
* Might be possible to add support for it (not 100% sure)
8. Standalone `alias` doesn't list aliases anymore
9. Can't alias parser keywords (e.g., stuff like `alias ou = overlay
use` won't work)
* TODO: Needs a better error message when attempting to do so
# Tests + Formatting
Don't forget to add tests that cover your changes.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
- `cargo fmt --all -- --check` to check standard code formatting (`cargo
fmt --all` applies these changes)
- `cargo clippy --workspace -- -D warnings -D clippy::unwrap_used -A
clippy::needless_collect` to check that you're using the standard code
style
- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
# After Submitting
If your PR had any user-facing changes, update [the
documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) after the
PR is merged, if necessary. This will help us keep the docs up to date.