This week in Nushell #251

Nushell

• kubouch fixed deltas not being merged when evaluating menus, extended functionality of tango benchmark helpers, and refactored Span ID (Step 2): Use SpanId of expressions in some places.
• zhiburt improved performance of explore.
• fdncred updated uutils crates, and added $nu.data-dir for completions and $nu.cache-dir for other uses.
• IanManske made the which-support feature non-optional, removed the deprecated --not flag on str contains, removed old sys command behavior, and made changes to how path type handles errors and missing files.
• NotTheDr01ds expanded tables in help examples in std, added search terms to if, fixed help for banner, fixed multiple issues with def --wrapped help example, and deprecated --numbered from for.
• ayax79 allowed the addition of an index column to be optional for dataframes, and fixed the use of right-hand expressions in dataframe operations.
• hqsz fixed wrong casting with into filesize.

Documentation

• NotTheDr01ds created a cookbook - new section on handling keypress loops using input listen, and linked from 'TiN -> Immutable Variables' to Variables chapter to reduce redundancy.
• gar1t replaced exit with dexit for popd analog.
• kubouch added C toolchain to Ubuntu install instructions.
• amtoine removed feature from front matter and commands page.

Nu_Scripts

• fdncred updated the nu_msvs module.
• laisnuto fixed an alert in kw completions.
• OJarrisonn added completions for kw.