This week in Nushell #272

Nushell

• IanManske removed as_i64 and as_f64, made to text line endings consistent for list (streams), and overhauled div, mod, and floor div
• aionescu removed unneeded clones in select
• fdncred updated reedline to the latest commit, updated human-date-parser conversion to use local timezone, and allowed != for polars
• WindSoilder prevented IR from generating unnecessary instructions for def and export def, and fixed $env.FILE_PWD and $env.CURRENT_FILE inside use
• weirdan fixed the order of preference for VISUAL and EDITOR
• 132ikl improved Nushell's handling of case-insensitive string handling
• sholderbach consolidated uses of test-case to rstest
• CharlesTaylor7 made empty rest args match an empty list
• alex-kattathra-johnson added tests for the --max-age arg in http commands, and changed --max-time arg for http commands to use Duration type
• NotTheDr01ds stopped autoloading deprecated-dirs
• Bahex added table params support to url join and url build-query, and implemented a new url split-query command
• sgvictorino excluded import path from args to aliased external commands, correctly parsed table literals as lists, and added support for binary input in length
• Dorumin removed a deref in touch

Documentation

• raphaelpra fixed a typo in an example provided in custom_commands.md
• weirdan updated VISUAL/EDITOR order
• NotTheDr01ds made module chapter edits from review, and fixed code-block line numbering
• cablehead added details on signal handling to the plugin protocol reference
• vyadh added Docker image usage
• hustcer upgraded shiki, vuepress and related plugins
• rodvieirasilva fixed prepend to append in coming_from_cmd.md
• 132ikl added documentation for sorting

Nu_Scripts

• bminer fixed a bug where find_in globs were matching directories

reedline

• petricavalry fixed wrong unit when splitting string