This week in Nushell #212

Nushell

• amtoine fixed the pretty printing of failing tests in std, and added a std repeat command to replace "foo" * 3, and added a case-insensitive example to where, and allowed into duration to take an integer amount of ns
• zhiburt made several fixes to table rendering: 1, 2, 3
• jntrnr fixed 'let' to properly redirect, and changed echo to print when not redirected, and removed profiling from nushell's hot loop
• GomesGoncalo made a fix to allow json requests of value type list
• fdncred added a helper switch to move cursor to end of buffer, and added a few more columns to linux ps -l output, and silenced some ucp warnings, and allowed update to use metadata
• sholderbach optimized the use of range in std repeat, and updated internal use of decimal to float, and made a change to use slices directly instead of &Vec, and deref &String arguments to &str where appropriate, and renamed random decimal to random float, and inverted &Options to Option<&T>, and bumped calamine, and updated crates-ci/typos and fixed new typos, and removed python-like string multiplication, and removed pythonic int * list behavior, and renamed into decimal to into float
• Tiggax removed select error if same row/column is provided, and updated reject to be able to recive arg list, and updated reject to support multiple row args
• WindSoilder updated ps to add cwd column on linux and macos
• hustcer updated Nu to v0.84 for release and nightly-build, and upgraded softprops/action-gh-release to v0.1.15 for release and nightly build workflow
• kubouch allowed parse-time evaluation of if, and removed leftover const eval file
• dmatos2012 fixed variables not allowed in ucp
• geniusisme made a change to provide env to commands and try to start provided path
• dzorya added a comment that perl is required for feature static-link-openssl…
• nibon7 made cursor_shape optional
• alsuren signposted 'input list --types [key]' from 'keybindings list'
• utouto97 added 'from ndjson' into standard library
• IanManske fixed rm on macOS
• nanoqsh made a change to keep order for par-each
• J-Kappes fixed input --until-bytes: now stops at any of given bytes

Documentation

• edhowland created Changed Python plugin example to be more portable
• Gryff created Change direnv example to upload $env.PATH as a list
• dnsem created Support for standard input in script with shebang
• petrisch created DE translation for custom_completions.md, and Typos in custom_completions
• mb21 created Cookbook setup: fix command to append to PATH
• connorjs created Update variables_and_subexpressions.md - remove obsolete section, and Update working_with_lists.md - format date
• JoaquinTrinanes created Fix external completers typo
• hustcer created Update min required node version and some node modules

Nu_Scripts

• WindSoilder created Improve background job.nu, and use closure instead of block
• brunerm99 created Change nu_conda list to output active status of environment as well (#604)
• Zinvoke created FEATURE: add catppuccin-mocha theme
• amtoine created add a typeof command, and add $.type to package.nuon
• icp1994 created feat(hook): add rusty-paths.nu

reedline

• sholderbach created Remove old actions-rs/cargo, and Add a configuration to codecov.io, and Setup coverage with codecov.io
• Hofer-Julian created Minor improvements
• ysthakur created Let prompts choose to repaint on enter