This week in Nushell #283 and #284

Posted Thursday, 2025-01-30.

Front Matter

With this edition, TWiN transitions to being a regular post on the main Nushell blog and Discord server. We welcome and encourage reposts on your preferred social media sites.

Due to this transition, we're a few days behind. This catch-up edition includes the last 12 days of contributions. The next edition is planned for Saturday, February 8th and should cover the intervening 9 days.

Finally, it seems that issue #280 was inadvertently posted two weeks in a row, and #281 was never posted. Look for it soon in the archives!

Highlights

Reminder - We're now on a six-week release cycle. The next Nushell release (0.102.0) is scheduled for this coming Tuesday!

The most recent week (give or take) of contributions brings us more completion improvements, a new version check command, the ability for start to launch application URIs, an easier to remember (renamed) format number command, and more.

Nushell

• NotTheDr01ds:

  • Renamed std/core to std/prelude
  • Fixed: Directories using a tilde to represent HOME now convert to absolute paths before running externals
  • Fixed improperly escaped strings in stor update
  • Linked to the blog in the welcome banner
  • Added the correct path from data-dir
  • Improved the example for epoch -> datetime
  • Used $nu.data-dir as the last directory for vendor autoloads on all platforms
  • Fixed the retrieval of the config directory for user autoloads

• blindFS:

  • Fixed DotNuCompletion to complete Nu scripts in const $NU_LIB_DIRS
  • Added value display on hover for const variables and CellPaths in LSP
  • Fixed the span of keyword expressions
  • Fixed goto/hover on module names in some commands
  • Refactored the parser to use var_id for most constants in ResolvedImportPattern
  • Improved completion item documentation in LSP
  • Added document highlight support in LSP
  • Fixed renaming of flag variables
  • Fixed the missing span of the entire block in module files
  • Fixed missing references in the use command

• dependabot[bot]:

  • Bumped shadow-rs from 0.37.0 to 0.38.0
  • Bumped brotli from 6.0.0 to 7.0.0
  • Bumped similar from 2.6.0 to 2.7.0

• cptpiepmatz:

  • Fixed cargo doc warnings
  • Refactored I/O errors

• Bahex: Fixed help operators to include has and not-has operators

• dam4rus: Fixed esc immediately closing explore in expand and try view

• ayax79: Upgraded Polars to 0.46

• cosineblast: Fixed reject regression

• pyz4:

  • Added polars into-repr to display dataframes in portable repr format
  • Generalized seq date to allow any duration for the --increment argument

• IanManske:

  • Removed unused types
  • Used ref-cast crate to remove some unsafe code
  • Improved and fixed filesize formatting/display

• ysthakur:

  • Used a single atom for fuzzy matching (fix #14904)
  • Fell back to the file completer in custom/external completers

• zhiburt: Fixed #14842

• Tyarel8:

  • Made into glob a noop when the input is already a glob
  • Made into cell-path a noop when the input is already a cell-path

• fdncred: Added a version check command

• 132ikl: Renamed fmt to format number

• sgvictorino: Updated uutils crates to 0.0.29

• tmillr: Fixed completion in nested blocks

• anomius: Enabled non-HTTP(s) URLs to work with start

Documentation

• RolandMarchand: Added $? equivalent to $env.LAST_EXIT_CODE

• vyadh: Added draft front matter for todo/placeholder pages

• RalfNorthman: Fixed shell aliases module name mismatch

• dependabot[bot]:

  • Bumped undici from 6.21.0 to 6.21.1
  • Bumped vite from 6.0.3 to 6.0.11

Nu_Scripts

• dam5h: Added git reset completion

• NotTheDr01ds:

  • Moved Table/List helper module to new std-rfc
  • Fixed an issue with testing.nu in 0.101.1
  • Added a key-value module for std-rfc

• Bahex: Fixed aggregate input-output types to provide more helpful error messages

• AucaCoyan:

  • Unsort the completions in git checkout
  • Removed gstat dependency from git-aliases
  • Fixed an additional + in git local branches

• xav-ie: Fixed newline handling in from env