xonsh 0.4.7

on Python PyPI

Added:

• Define alias for 'echo' on startup for Windows only.
• New coredev astronouth7303 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
• 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 ingored 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
• Macro function arguments now default to str, rather than eval,
  for consistentcy 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 highlighed on windows.
• Fixed completer showing executable in upper case on windows.
• Fixed issue where tilde expansion was occuring 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
• Automatucally append newine 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.