This Week in Nushell #334

Published Friday, 2026-01-16, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-01-09 through Thursday, 2026-01-15.

Nushell

• @fdncred:

  • added better regex pattern handling (#17357)
  • updated evaluate_tool.md (#17342)
  • made ls faster (#17339)
  • updated nushell to latest reedline commit 6ceda500 (#17328)
  • made detect columns more robust + refactor + new switch (#17317)

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.41.0 to 1.42.0 (#17343)

• @dhr412:

  • added definition column to which command for aliases (#17338)

• @playwmadness:

  • fixed (#17321): with-env not applying locale env vars to format date (#17333)

• @WindSoilder:

  • made input -s always write "\n" when user finished typing (#17298)

• @ayax79:

  • introduced Polars selector support (#17296)

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • replaced dep rust-embed with custom code generation (#17276)

• @KaiSforza:

  • added error_lines and error_style = tree settings (#17105)

Awesome Nu

• @RangHo:
  • added opam.nu link to README.md (#149)

Documentation

• @fdncred:
  • removed bash-env external command from docs (#2105)

Nu_Scripts

• @ysthakur:
  • removed incorrect less subcommand definition (#1200)

reedline

• @ysthakur:
  • fixed handling of longer first suggestion in find_common_string (#1001)