lix/doc/manual/rl-next
Rebecca Turner 7bcb1cac37
Print top-level errors normally in nix repl
Previously, errors while printing values in `nix repl` would be printed
in `«error: ...»` brackets rather than displayed normally:

```
nix-repl> legacyPackages.aarch64-darwin.pythonPackages.APScheduler
«error: Package ‘python-2.7.18.7’ in /nix/store/6s0m1qc31zw3l3kq0q4wd5cp3lqpkq0q-source/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/cpython/2.7/default.nix:335 is marked as insecure, refusing to evaluate.»
```

Now, errors will be displayed normally if they're emitted at the
top-level of an expression:

```
nix-repl> legacyPackages.aarch64-darwin.pythonPackages.APScheduler
error:
       … in the condition of the assert statement
         at /nix/store/6s0m1qc31zw3l3kq0q4wd5cp3lqpkq0q-source/lib/customisation.nix:268:17:
          267|     in commonAttrs // {
          268|       drvPath = assert condition; drv.drvPath;
             |                 ^
          269|       outPath = assert condition; drv.outPath;

       … in the left operand of the OR (||) operator
         at /nix/store/6s0m1qc31zw3l3kq0q4wd5cp3lqpkq0q-source/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/passthrufun.nix:28:45:
           27|         if lib.isDerivation value then
           28|           lib.extendDerivation (valid value || throw "${name} should use `buildPythonPackage` or `toPythonModule` if it is to be part of the Python packages set.") {} value
             |                                             ^
           29|         else

       (stack trace truncated; use '--show-trace' to show the full trace)

       error: Package ‘python-2.7.18.7’ in /nix/store/6s0m1qc31zw3l3kq0q4wd5cp3lqpkq0q-source/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/cpython/2.7/default.nix:335 is marked as insecure, refusing to evaluate.
```

Errors emitted in nested structures (like e.g. when printing `nixpkgs`)
will still be printed in brackets.

Change-Id: I25aeddf08c017582718cb9772a677bf51b9fc2ad
2024-04-09 08:34:40 -07:00
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better-errors-in-nix-repl.md Print top-level errors normally in nix repl 2024-04-09 08:34:40 -07:00
debugger-locals-for-let-expressions.md manual: fix release notes 2024-03-27 03:09:14 +00:00
debugger-on-trace.md Merge pull request #9914 from 9999years/debugger-on-trace 2024-03-09 10:17:26 -07:00
drop-vendored-toml11.md Stop vendoring toml11 2024-03-27 21:04:00 -04:00
drv-string-parse-hang.md Merge pull request #9673 from pennae/drv-parse-opts 2024-03-04 07:36:51 +01:00
dup-attr-errors.md build: replace changelog-d with local script 2024-03-27 03:09:14 +00:00
empty-search-regex.md manual: fix release notes 2024-03-27 03:09:14 +00:00
enter-debugger-more-reliably-in-let-and-calls.md Merge pull request #9917 from 9999years/enter-debugger-more-reliably 2024-03-09 03:37:35 -07:00
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forbid-nested-debuggers.md Merge pull request #9920 from 9999years/forbid-nested-debuggers 2024-03-31 17:28:25 +00:00
formal-order.md normalize formal order on ExprLambda::show 2024-03-18 07:56:34 -06:00
inherit-error-positions.md report inherit attr errors at the duplicate name 2024-03-18 16:12:45 +01:00
inherit-from-by-need.md evaluate inherit (from) exprs only once per directive 2024-03-10 03:18:32 -06:00
new-assertions.md build: enable libstdc++ assertions 2024-04-08 15:40:12 -07:00
nix-env-json-drv-path.md Merge pull request #9573 from hercules-ci/rl-next-md-frontmatter 2024-03-04 07:12:09 +01:00
nix-flake-check-logs-actions.md Add release notes 2024-03-07 12:29:57 -08:00
nix-flake-update-ux.md manual: fix release notes 2024-03-27 03:09:14 +00:00
nixversion-fake.md build: replace changelog-d with local script 2024-03-27 03:09:14 +00:00
no-cache-eval-errors.md always re-eval cached failures 2024-04-06 04:35:25 +00:00
print-value-in-coercion-error.md manual: fix release notes 2024-03-27 03:09:14 +00:00
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repl-doc-command.md repl: improve :doc builtin repl command to support lambdas. 2024-04-03 13:47:22 -06:00
repl-overlays.md Add repl-overlays 2024-04-08 17:11:47 -07:00
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