# Description
Uses "normal" module `std/<submodule>/mod.nu` instead of renaming the
files (as requested in #13842).
# User-Facing Changes
No user-facing changes other than in `view files` results. Imports
remain the same after this PR.
# Tests + Formatting
- 🟢 `toolkit fmt`
- 🟢 `toolkit clippy`
- 🟢 `toolkit test`
- 🟢 `toolkit test stdlib`
Also manually confirmed that it does not interfere with nupm, since we
did have a conflict at one point (and it's not possible to test here).
# Performance Tests
## Linux
### Nushell Startup - No config
```nu
bench --pretty -n 200 { <path_to>/nu -c "exit" }
```
| Release | Startup Time |
| --- | --- |
| 0.98.0 | 22ms 730µs 768ns +/- 1ms 515µs 942ns
| This commit | 9ms 312µs 68ns +/- 709µs 378ns
| Yesterday's nightly | 9ms 230µs 953ns +/- 9ms 67µs 689ns
### Nushell Startup - Load full standard library
Measures relative impact of a full `use std *`, which isn't recommended,
but worth tracking.
```nu
bench --pretty -n 200 { <path_to>/nu -c "use std *; exit" }
```
| Release | Startup Time |
| --- | --- |
| 0.98.0 | 23ms 10µs 636ns +/- 1ms 277µs 854ns
| This commit | 26ms 922µs 769ns +/- 562µs 538ns
| Yesterday's nightly | 28ms 133µs 95ns +/- 761µs 943ns
| `deprecated_dirs` removal PR * | 23ms 610µs 333ns +/- 369µs 436ns
\* Current increase is partially due to double-loading `dirs` with
removal warning in older version.
# After Submitting
Still TODO - Update standard library doc
Updated summary for commit
[612e0e2](612e0e2160)
- While folks are welcome to read through the entire comments, the core
information is summarized here.
# Description
This PR drastically improves startup times of Nushell by only parsing a
single submodule of the Standard Library that provides the `banner` and
`pwd` commands. All other Standard Library commands and submodules are
parsed when imported by the user. This cuts startup times by more than
60%.
At the moment, we have stopped adding to `std-lib` because every
addition adds a small amount to the Nushell startup time.
With this change, we should once again be able to allow new
functionality to be added to the Standard Library without it impacting
`nu` startup times.
# User-Facing Changes
* Nushell now starts about 60% faster
* Breaking change: The `dirs` (Shells) aliases will return a warning
message that it will not be auto-loaded in the following release, along
with instructions on how to restore it (and disable the message)
* The `use std <submodule> *` syntax is available for convenience, but
should be avoided in scripts as it parses the entire `std` module and
all other submodules and places it in scope. The correct syntax to
*just* load a submodule is `use std/<submodule> *` (asterisk optional).
The slash is important. This will be documented.
* `use std *` can be used for convenience to load all of the library but
still incurs the full loading-time.
* `std/dirs`: Semi-breaking change. The `dirs` command replaces the
`show` command. This is more in line with the directory-stack
functionality found in other shells. Existing users will not be impacted
by this as the alias (`shells`) remains the same.
* Breaking-change: Technically a breaking change, but probably only
impacts maintainers of `std`. The virtual path for the standard library
has changed. It could previously be imported using its virtual path (and
technically, this would have been the correct way to do it):
```nu
use NU_STDLIB_VIRTUAL_DIR/std
```
The path is now simply `std/`:
```nu
use std
```
All submodules have moved accordingly.
# Timings
Comparisons below were made:
* In a temporary, clean config directory using `$env.XDG_CONFIG_HOME =
(mktemp -d)`.
* `nu` was run with a release build
* `nu` was run one time to generate the default `config.nu` (etc.) files
- Otherwise timings would include the user-prompt
* The shell was exited and then restarted several times to get timing
samples
(Note: Old timings based on 0.97 rather than 0.98, but in the range of
being accurate)
| Scenario | `$nu.startup-time` |
| --- | --- |
| 0.97.2
([aaaab8e](aaaab8e070))
Without this PR | 23ms - 24ms |
| This PR with deprecated commands | 9ms - <11ms |
| This PR after deprecated commands are removed in following release |
8ms - <10ms |
| Final PR (remove deprecated), using `--no-std-lib` | 6.1ms to 6.4ms |
| Final PR (remove deprecated), using `--no-config-file` | 3.1ms - 3.6ms
|
| Final PR (remove deprecated), using `--no-config-file --no-std-lib` |
1ms - 1.5ms |
*These last two timings point to the opportunity for further
optimization (see comment in thread below (will link once I write it).*
# Implementation details for future maintenance
* `use std banner` is a ridiculously deceptive call. That call parses
and imports *all* of `std` into scope. Simply replacing it with `use
std/core *` is essentially what saves ~14-15ms. This *only* imports the
submodule with the `banner` and `pwd` commands.
* From the code-comments, the reason that `NU_STDLIB_VIRTUAL_DIR` was
used as a prefix was so that there wouldn't be an issue if a user had a
`./std/mod.nu` in the current directory. This does **not** appear to be
an issue. After removing the prefix, I tested with both a relative
module as well as one in the `$env.NU_LIB_DIRS` path, and in all cases
the *internal* `std` still took precedence.
* By removing the prefix, users can now `use std` (and variants) without
requiring that it already be parsed and in scope.
* In the next release, we'll stop autoloading the `dirs` (shells)
functionality. While this only costs an additional 1-1.5ms, I think it's
better moved to the `config.nu` where the user can optionally remove it.
The main reason is its use of aliases (which have also caused issues) -
The `n`, `p`, and `g` short-commands are valuable real-estate, and users
may want to map these to something else.
For this release, there's an `deprecated_dirs` module that is still
autoloaded. As with the top-level commands, use of these will give a
deprecation warning with instructions on how to handle going forward.
To help with this, moved the aliases to their own submodule inside the
`dirs` module.
* Also sneaks in a small change where the top-level `dirs` command is
now the replacement for `dirs show`
* Fixed a double-import of `assert` in `dirs.nu`
* The `show_banner` step is replaced with simply `banner` rather than
re-importing it.
* A `virtual_path` may now be referenced with either a forward-slash or
a backward-slash on Windows. This allows `use std/<submodule>` to work
on all platforms.
# Performance side-notes:
* Future parsing and/or IR improvements should improve performance even
further.
* While the existing load time penalty of `std-lib` was not noticeable
on many systems, Nushell runs on a wide-variety of hardware and OS
platforms. Slower platforms will naturally see a bigger jump in
performance here. For users starting multiple Nushell sessions
frequently (e.g., `tmux`, Zellij, `screen`, et. al.) it is recommended
to keep total startup time (including user configuration) under ~250ms.
# Tests + Formatting
* All tests are green
* Updated tests:
- Removed the test that confirmed that `std` was loaded (since we
don't).
- Removed the `shells` test since it is not autoloaded. Main `dirs.nu`
functionality is tested through `stdlib-test`.
- Many tests assumed that the library was fully loaded, because it was
(even though we didn't intend for it to be). Fixed those tests.
- Tests now import only the necessary submodules (e.g., `use
std/assert`, rather than `use std assert`)
- Some tests *thought* they were loading `std/log`, but were doing so
improperly. This was masked by the now-fixed "load-everything-into-scope
bug". Local CI would pass due the `$env.NU_LOG_<...>` variables being
inherited from the calling process, but would fail in the "clean" GitHub
CI environment. These tests have also been fixed.
* Added additional tests for the changes
# After Submitting
Will update the Standard Library doc page
- Replaced `start`/`end` with span.
- Fixed standard library.
- Add `help` option.
- Add a couple more errors for invalid record types.
Resolve#10914
# Description
# User-Facing Changes
- **BREAKING CHANGE:** `error make` now takes in `span` instead of
`start`/`end`:
```Nushell
error make {
msg: "Message"
label: {
text: "Label text"
span: (metadata $var).span
}
}
```
- `error make` now has a `help` argument for custom error help.
Fixes#10696
# Description
As reported, you could mess up the ring of remembered directories in
`std dirs` (a.k.a the `shells` commands) with a sequence like this:
```
~/test> mkdir b c
~/test> pushd b
~/test/b> cd ../c
~/test/c> goto 0
~/test> goto 1
## expect to end up in ~/test/c
## observe you're in ~/test/b
~/test/b>
```
Problem was `dirs goto` was not updating the remembered directories
before leaving the current slot for some other. This matters if the user
did a manual `cd` (which cannot update the remembered directories ring)
# User-Facing Changes
None! it just works ™️
# Tests + Formatting
- 🟢 `toolkit fmt`
- 🟢 `toolkit clippy`
- 🟢 `toolkit test`
- 🟢 `toolkit test stdlib`
# After Submitting
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# Description
For years, Nushell has used `let-env` to set a single environment
variable. As our work on scoping continued, we refined what it meant for
a variable to be in scope using `let` but never updated how `let-env`
would work. Instead, `let-env` confusingly created mutations to the
command's copy of `$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"`.
# Tests + Formatting
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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
When the directory stack contains only two directories, then std dirs
drop
used to misbehave and (essentially) drop the other directory, instead of
dropping the current directory.
This is fixed by always cd'ing for std dirs drop.
Before:
/tmp〉enter ..
/〉dexit
/〉
After:
/tmp〉enter ..
/〉dexit
/tmp〉
Additionally, I propose to explain the relevant environment variables a
bit
more thoroughly.
# User-Facing Changes
- Fix bug in dexit (std dirs drop) when two directories are remaining
# Tests + Formatting
Added a regression test. Made the existing test easier to understand.
