This Week in Nushell #351

Published Friday, 2026-05-15, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-05-08 through Thursday, 2026-05-14.

Nushell

• @vip892766gma:

  • fixed duplicated words in comments (#18196)

• @pyz4:

  • added support for header row in from xlsx (#18189)

• @Juhan280:

  • added optional column argument for grid command (#18187)
  • allowed pre_prompt and env_change hooks to modify the commandline (#18119)

• @Bahex:

  • did some more cleaning (#18186)
  • added nu-heavy-utils crate and consolidated endian flag handling (#18184)
  • added new prod command for cartesian products in std-rfc/iter (#18177)
  • added support for multiple cell-paths in std-rfc/iter recurse (#18172)
  • deprecated the optional closure argument in watch command (#18143)

• @fdncred:

  • added --no-commas flag to to nuon for compact output without comma separators (#18185)
  • fixed hide-env and renamed remove_env_var to hide_env_var for clarity (#18170)

• @132ikl:

  • gated idx import and export commands behind sqlite feature (#18181)

• @Metbcy:

  • added table rendering benchmarks for nu-table (#18179)

• @WindSoilder:

  • fixed clippy warnings (#18174)
  • fixed try causing other code to run twice (#18173)
  • made mv -v and mkdir -v return structured data (#18171)
  • made ctrl-c work with try..finally while running script (#18155)

• @vvvu:

  • fixed cp --no-dereference for symlinks (#18162)

• @ymcx:

  • trimmed whitespace from REPL input, improving auto-cd with leading/trailing spaces (#18123)

• @Tyarel8:

  • fixed parsing default values of type glob correctly (#18111)

• @app/dependabot:

  • bumped scraper from 0.26.0 to 0.27.0 (#18194)
  • bumped calamine from 0.34.0 to 0.35.0 (#18193)
  • bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.46.0 to 1.46.1 (#18191)

Awesome Nu

• @BoweFlex:
  • added Sessionizer.nu to Script List (#164)

reedline

• @casedami:

  • fixed quote detection in bash expansion (#1073)
  • fixed abbreviation expansion before space is inserted (#1072)
  • added support for fish-like abbreviations (#1060)

• @kronberger-droid:

  • refactored core_editor: extracted grapheme boundary helpers into free functions (#1068)
  • introduced HelixRange selection type in helix-mode (no wiring) (#1061)

Documentation

• @Juhan280:

  • updated jq_v_nushell (#2164)

• @NotTheDr01ds:

  • published TWiN 350 (#2161)

Nu_Scripts

• @orthonormalremy:
  • made just-completions obey set fallback (#1253)

New nu-parser

• @WindSoilder:
  • implemented Copy trait on AstNode (#70)

nufmt

• @jmatth:
  • fixed preserving curly braces around export module blocks (#186)