Qi Xiao

Support deferring configuration of database to after initialization

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Peewee allows you to do this, by passing `None` to `__init__`: ``` python from peewee import * db = SqliteDatabase(None) db.init('a.db') ``` Flask-SQLAlchemy too, by leaving out the `app` argument:...

Cursor position report should be 1-based

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The following prints `^[[1;1R` on xterm, the linux console, libvte-based terminals: ``` clear echo '\033[6n' read | cat -v ``` But it prints `^[[0;0R` on kmscon.

POSIX shell compatibility layer

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It would be really nice if we can source `~/.bashrc` directly. That will make migration much easier.

Improve the output of pprint

4

The current implementation of pprint is pretty naive, in particular when it comes to printing nested data structures (lists and maps). Concretely, there are several things to improve: * [x]...

Support resetting all modules and bindings

2

When developing modules interactively, using `exec` is now the only way to get around the module cache. If there is a way to let the interpreter forget all modules and...

Remove the daemon by using a pure-Go port of SQLite

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In #1216 @krader1961 suggested using [this sqlite package](https://godoc.org/modernc.org/sqlite) instead of boltdb so that the database can be accessed from multiple processes without needing a daemon. The package is quite mysterious...

Deprecate and remove support for ~/.elvish

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- 0.19.0: Print a warning if ~/.elvish exists as a directory. - 0.20.0: Ignore ~/.elvish.

Variables introduced by for and catch should be visible only in their body

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Consider: ```elvish-transcript ~> for x [foo bar] { } ~> put $x ▶ bar ~> try { fail x } catch err { } ~> put $err ▶ [&reason=[&content=x &type=fail]]...

Don't set variables declared after code that raised an exception

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Executing this interactively will leave `$x` defined, with value `$nil`: ```sh fail error; var x = foo ``` While the following will leave leave function `f` defined as a nop:...

Rename try/except to try/catch

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While working on #1424 I realized that only Python calls the clause to catch exceptions `except`; it's `catch` in all other languages. I feel `catch` is slightly better because it's...