Replace Pipelines "Behind the Scenes" with "Result Display Rendering"

book/pipelines.md

@@ -379,35 +379,70 @@ The `sleep` behavior of not supporting an input stream matches Bash `sleep` beha
 
 Many commands do have piped input/output however, and if it's ever unclear, check their `help` documentation as described above.
 
-## Behind the Scenes
+## Rendering Display Results
 
-You may have wondered how we see a table if [`ls`](/commands/docs/ls.md) is an input and not an output. Nu adds this output for us automatically using another command called [`table`](/commands/docs/table.md). The [`table`](/commands/docs/table.md) command is appended to any pipeline that doesn't have an output. This allows us to see the result.
+In interactive mode, when a pipeline ends, the [`display_output` hook configuration](https://www.nushell.sh/book/hooks.html#changing-how-output-is-displayed) defines how the result will be displayed.
+The default configuration uses the [`table` command](/commands/docs/table.md) to render structured data as a visual table.
 
-In effect, the command:
+The following example shows how the `display_output` hook can render
 
-```nu
-ls
-```
-
-And the pipeline:
+- an expanded table with `table -e`
+- an unexpanded table with `table`
+- an empty closure `{||}` and empty string `''` lead to simple output
+- `null` can be assigned to clear any customization, reverting back to default behavior
 
 ```nu
-ls | table
-```
-
-Are one and the same.
-
-::: tip Note
-The phrase _"are one and the same"_ above only applies to the graphical output in the shell, it does not mean the two data structures are the same:
-
-```nushell
-(ls) == (ls | table)
-# => false
+$env.config.hooks.display_output = { table -e }
+[1,2,3,[4,5,6]]
+# => ╭───┬───────────╮
+# => │ 0 │         1 │
+# => │ 1 │         2 │
+# => │ 2 │         3 │
+# => │ 3 │ ╭───┬───╮ │
+# => │   │ │ 0 │ 4 │ │
+# => │   │ │ 1 │ 5 │ │
+# => │   │ │ 2 │ 6 │ │
+# => │   │ ╰───┴───╯ │
+# => ╰───┴───────────╯
+
+$env.config.hooks.display_output = { table }
+[1,2,3,[4,5,6]]
+# => ╭───┬────────────────╮
+# => │ 0 │              1 │
+# => │ 1 │              2 │
+# => │ 2 │              3 │
+# => │ 3 │ [list 3 items] │
+# => ╰───┴────────────────╯
+
+$env.config.hooks.display_output = {||}
+[1,2,3,[4,5,6]]
+# => 1
+# => 2
+# => 3
+# => [4
+# => 5
+# => 6]
+
+$env.config.hooks.display_output = ''
+[1,2,3,[4,5,6]]
+# => 1
+# => 2
+# => 3
+# => [4
+# => 5
+# => 6]
+
+# clear to default behavior
+$env.config.hooks.display_output = null
+[1,2,3,[4,5,6]]
+# => ╭───┬────────────────╮
+# => │ 0 │              1 │
+# => │ 1 │              2 │
+# => │ 2 │              3 │
+# => │ 3 │ [list 3 items] │
+# => ╰───┴────────────────╯
 ```
 
-`ls | table` is not even structured data!
-:::
-
 ## Output Result to External Commands
 
 Sometimes you want to output Nushell structured data to an external command for further processing. However, Nushell's default formatting options for structured data may not be what you want.