Despite this being a new major version release, it is a vary minor update. Aside from a handful of bugfixes, the most significant change is notice of deprecation for =
, let
, and ?
.
None
Please read out compatibility commitment to understand how features are deprecated.
?
pipe will be deprecated to make way for a the ternary operator. You can achieve the same result with <err> <!out>
, eg command <err> <!out> parameters... | next-command ...
=
and let
builtins are now officially deprecated. They’ve been marked as deprecated in the documentation for a couple of years but you’ll now receive a deprecation warning when using them. This warning will not impact any functions that call them (they bypass the stdout and stderr pipes and write directly to your TTY) but it is still recommended that you update any existing code not to use it. The change is very simple, Murex supported expressions as first class primitives, so you can simply drop the =
and let
command names from your expressionsFeatures marked as EXPERIMENTAL are provided without assurances of future breaking changes. All other features are considered stable as part of Murex’s compatibility commitment.
mxtty
terminal emulator (Github repo)which
and whereis
autocompletions were Linux specific. Now they’re enabled for all platformsgrep
and egrep
aliases were Linux specific. Now they’re enabled for all POSIX platformsnull
by is-null
(issue #786)Special thank yous for this release goes to everyone in the discussions group for raising bug reports and their design discussions.
You rock!
Published: 17.02.2024 at 20:47
export
): Define an environmental variable and set it’s valueis-null
): Checks if a variable is null or undefinedconfig
): Query or define Murex runtime settingsruntime
): Returns runtime information on the internal state of Murexautocomplete
): Set definitions for tab-completion in the command lineThis document was generated from gen/changelog/v6.0_doc.yaml.
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