This week in Nushell #170

Nushell

• kubouch reordered export-env eval and allowed reloading an overlay
• jntrnr created New commands: break, continue, return, and loop, and Remove And and Or pipeline elements, and Add try/catch functionality, and A set of fixes for stderr redirect, and Don't redirect stdout when only redirecting stderr, and Stdout/Stderr redirection, and Move dataframe out of extra, and Add auto-expanding table view to default config
• rgwood made catch block a closure w/ access to error, and Feature cleanup
• fdncred pinned to a version of zstd that doesn't break dataframe compilation
• dmatos2012 fixed color_config crashing on nonstring data
• sholderbach removed the samples/wasm folder, and Error on negative argument of first, and Error on negative argument to last
• webbedspace fixed fetch/post not erroring on 4xx and 5xx statuses, and Fix sort-by, path join and size error arrows, and Change all --insensitive flags to --ignore-case, and Fix mv error message issues (arrows, Windows paths), and Fix glob error arrows, and Remove erroneous test introduced in #6994, and Rename dataframe describe to summary so that the normal describe isn't overloaded, and Bugfix: add table_index_mode check that was missing from #6983, and Edit rm help messages, and Improve CantFindColumn and ColumnAlreadyExists errors, and Fix needs_quotes() in to nuon (closes #6989), and Allow iteration blocks to have an optional extra index parameter (alternative to -n flags), and Grouped config commands better (closes #6911)
• michel-slm added binstall metadata
• raccmonteiro fixed uniq -i does not convert to lowercase (#7192), and uniq code refactoring, and new command url parse (#6854) and url subcommands tests
• kamirr fixed while ctrlc behavior, and Fix last memory use
• nibon7 applied a clippy fix
• WindSoilder removde block input support from merge, and Plugin: make friendly error message when python is not found, and Make external command substitution works friendly(like fish shell, trailing ending newlines), and add signature information when get help on one command
• nanoqsh fixed JSON parsing
• SUPERCILEX restored original do -i behavior and add flags to break down shell vs program errors
• Decodetalkers created feat: Use Raw text to save if pipeline data is ExternalStream or String
• Kixunil made JSON require string and pass around metadata

Documentation

• WindSoilder removed the Subexpressions with external commands section
• dmatos2012 expanded the docs on using use with export-env
• webbedspace added Release Notes: add note about --ignore-case
• raccmonteiro documented the url parse command
• casidiablo fixed a typo in advanced.md page
• remlse fixed the variable path expression example

Nu_Scripts

• Joxtacy added zellij completions
• Emilgardis improved Cargo completions

reedline

• rgwood created Fix example in CONTRIBUTING.md