This Week in Nushell #296

Published 2025-04-29, with PR Updates through 2025-04-25

Highlights

• Ack! I'm late; I'm late! TWiN #296 apologies for this week's delay. Something about a dog, homework, and a giant bouncy house?
• Wow - @Kissaki did some awesome work in nu_scripts with 15 PRs! Thank you!
• Another new Polars command joins the team courtesy of @MMesch — polars join_where. Did you know that brings us to a total of three SQL-like join commands in Nushell?
• Job control continues to progress with @cosineblast's addition of tags! And as a sneak preview, there's a special job-control surprise in store that just missed the cutoff for this week's TWiN. You can read all about it in ...
• The 0.104 release notes! That's right - This week is release week!

As always, special thanks to all our wonderful contributors for the PRs below.

Nushell

• Bahex added :nu back to the help text in explore.
• cptpiepmatz added cat and get-content to open's search terms.
• pyz4 made several improvements and fixes for Polars:
  • Fixed conversion from nanoseconds to time_units in Datetime and Duration parsing.
  • Enabled parsing decimals in Polars schemas.
  • Removed the requirement that pivot columns must be the same type in polars pivot.
  • Mapped the // operator to FloorDivide for custom values and in Polars.
  • Added the pow (**) operator for Polars expressions.
  • Enabled as_date and as_datetime to handle expressions as inputs.
• MMesch:
  • Added the polars join_where command.
  • Fixed a mistake in the description of the Polars pivot command.
• sholderbach fixed the labeling of plugins through the correct glob.
• SkillFlame fixed an issue where to md breaks on tables with empty values.
• LoicRiegel:
  • Fixed the output of start_timestamp as datetime instead of string in SQLite history tables.
  • Made str join output dates consistently (RFC2822 when possible).
  • Fixed the loss of precision when parsing values with units.
  • Added support for creating durations from records.
• AucaCoyan added a labeler bot.
• sebasnallar added the --follow-symlinks flag to the glob command.
• WindSoilder:
  • Raised a reasonable error when using subexpressions with the and operator.
  • Allowed subexpressions with redirection in IR.
  • Kept PWD after activating an overlay through a file.
• suimong improved the performance of std/log.
• hfrentzel enabled running scripts of any file extension in PATHEXT on Windows.
• blindFS fixed a regression in semantic tokens for module-prefixed commands.
• scarlet-storm enabled SOCKS proxy support in ureq.
• fdncred added more details to describe -d.
• Tyarel8 fixed kv set with a closure argument.
• NotTheDr01ds added env-conversion helpers to std.
• cosineblast added job tags.
• lazenga fixed outer joins incorrectly removing unmatched rows.

Documentation

• thesoulless fixed a constant.
• marcransome fixed the example of multi-dot shortcut path expansion.
• Beinsezii updated fish quotes in the external completers documentation.
• NotTheDr01ds added TWiN 295.
• LoicRiegel highlighted datetime handling in the 0.104.0 release notes.

Awesome Nu

• LoicRiegel added uv to Integrations.

Integrations

• hustcer fixed the format of Nu scripts to Unix format.

Nu_Scripts

• mn9891 updated Mamba/Conda info parsing and fixed syntax errors.
• Kissaki made many improvements:
  • Updated some fish-sourced generated completion files.
  • Updated more fish-sourced generated completion files.
  • Dropped the generated highlight.nu file.
  • Dropped added PATHs on folder leave.
  • Used path join to join path parts.
  • Supported configs with no hooks in rusty-paths.nu.
  • Fixed parse-fish.nu.
  • Improved the auto-generated README.md.
  • Removed duplicate "moved" auto-generated files from the old location.
  • Fixed winget show completions.
  • Fixed winget completions breaking winget show.
  • Added md-to-clip custom completions.
  • Dropped a draft note.
  • Improved git completions.
  • Ported parse_aws_s3_ls.nu from before v0.60.
• kiil added a games folder with a simple game demonstrating Nu code concepts.
• jaredmontoya added a capture-foreign-env module.

Reedline

• WindSoilder introduced a KillLine command and bound it to ctrl_k in emacs mode.