nushell has no way to provide multi-line commands with error handling #10856
Description
Describe the bug
I just got bit quite hard by wrapping a multiline external command with () only to find out that suppresses error handling.
Take this gist: https://gist.github.com/colemickens/bbee4161334849669b60e6db9e06a511
It produces different results from run1 and run2. This was quite unexpected.
But worse, I don't see any other way of running mult-line commands in nushell without wrapping them in parenthesis, which prevents errors from bubbling up.
To me, this is a grave, fatal flaw, as it stands. I need to be able to author scripts where I call external programs, and be able to format it across lines. The example I've provided is trivial and contrived, but I have many scripts where I'm inadvertently breaking error handling my using multi-line commands right now.
How to reproduce
- Take a long line of an external command.
- Try to split it across lines.
- Use the only facility I see available, wrapping the lines in
() - Notice that it suppresses the error from bubbling.
Expected behavior
Nushell provides a way to enter multiline commands that does not suppress error bubbling.
Screenshots
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Configuration
| key | value |
|---|---|
| version | 0.86.1 |
| branch | |
| commit_hash | |
| build_os | linux-x86_64 |
| build_target | x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu |
| rust_version | rustc 1.73.0 (cc66ad468 2023-10-03) (built from a source tarball) |
| cargo_version | cargo 1.73.0 |
| build_time | 1980-01-01 00:00:00 +00:00 |
| build_rust_channel | release |
| allocator | mimalloc |
| features | default, sqlite, trash, which, zip |
| installed_plugins |
Additional context
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