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xonsh v0.4.7 Release Notes

  • ➕ Added:

    • 🏁 Define alias for 'echo' on startup for Windows only.
    • 🆕 New coredev AstraLuma <https://github.com/AstraLuma>_ added
    • which -a now searches in __xonsh_ctx__ too
    • Info about the xontrib cookiecutter template on xontrib tutorial
    • 🐧 xonsh's optional dependencies may now be installed with the pip extras ptk, proctitle, linux, mac, and win.
    • 🖨 Env help method to format and print the vardocs for an envvar
    • ✅ test_news fails if no empty line before a category
    • ✅ more info on test_news failures
    • Added on_precommand and on_postcommand events </events.html>_
    • 🆕 New FORMATTER_DICT entry gitstatus to provides informative git status

    • FOREIGN_ALIASES_OVERRIDE envvar to control whether foreign aliases should override xonsh aliases with the same name.

    • ⚠ Warning on tutorial about foreign aliases being ignored if a xonsh alias exist with the same name if not FOREIGN_ALIASES_OVERRIDE.

    • The prompt-toolkit shell now auto-inserts matching parentheses, brackets, and quotes. Enabled via the XONSH_AUTOPAIR environment variable

    • 👍 Better syntax highlights in prompt-toolkit, including valid command / path highlighting, macro syntax highlighting, and more

    • More info on tutorial about history interaction

    • Entry on bash_to_xsh

    • Macro context managers are now available via the with! syntax.

    🔄 Changed:

    • 🚀 Devguide reflects the current process of releasing through release.xsh
    • 🚚 moved which from xonsh.aliases into xoreutils.which

    • xonsh.prompt.gitstatus.gitstatus now returns a namedtuple

    • implementation of xonsh.prompt.vc_branch.get_git_branch and xonsh.prompt.vc_branch.git_dirty_working_directory to use 'git status --procelain'

    • 🚚 moved prompt formatting specific functions from xonsh.environ to xonsh.prompt.base

    • 📦 All prompt formatter functions moved to xonsh.prompt subpackage

    • 🖨 Printing the message about foreign aliases being ignored happens only if XONSH_DEBUG is set.

    • 🏁 Use SetConsoleTitleW() on Windows instead of a process call.

    • Tutorial to reflect the current history command argument functionality

    • 0️⃣ Macro function arguments now default to str, rather than eval, for consistency with other parts of the macro system.

    ✂ Removed:

    • aliases that use '!' in their name cause they clash with the macro syntax

    🛠 Fixed:

    • 🛠 Fix regression where bash git completions where not loaded automatically when GitForWindows is installed.
    • 👍 More tokens are now supported in subproc args, such as ==.
    • Python completions now work without space delimiters, e.g. a=matpl<TAB> will complete to a=matplotlib
    • 📜 Parser would fail on nested, captured suprocess macros. Now, it works, hooray!?
    • now fires chdir event if OS change in working directory is detected.
    • xonsh.prompt.vc_branch.git_dirty_working_directory uses porcelain option instead of using the bytestring nothing to commit to find out if a git directory is dirty
    • 🛠 Fix bug where know commands where not highlighted on windows.
    • 🛠 Fixed completer showing executable in upper case on windows.
    • 🛠 Fixed issue where tilde expansion was occurring more than once before an equals sign.
    • ✅ test_dirstack test_cdpath_expansion leaving stray testing dirs
    • 👍 Better completer display for long completions in prompt-toolkit
    • Automatically append newline to target of source alias, so that it may be exec'd.
    • ✅ test_news fails when single graves around word
    • Slashes in virtual environment names work in vox
    • non string type value in $FORMATTER_DICT turning prompt ugly
    • 👻 whole prompt turning useless when one formatting function raises an exception
    • 🛠 Fix completion after alias expansion
    • 🛠 Fix hard crash when foreign shell functions fails to run. #1715
    • Bug where non-default locations for XDG_DATA_HOME and XONSH_DATA_DIR would not expand ~ into the home directory

    • Auto quote path completions if path contains 'and' or 'or'

    • Completion now works on subcommands after pipe, &&, || and so on.

    • cd . and cd now work. Fix indexerror in AUTO_PUSHD case, too.

    • 🛠 Fixed issue with accidentally wrapping generators inside of function calls.

    • History indexing with string returns most recent command.