This Week in Nushell #368

Published Wednesday, 2026-09-16, including PRs merged Friday, 2026-09-04 through Thursday, 2026-09-10.

Nushell

• @ronisbr:

  • Added support for escaped spaces inside double quotes (#19010)

• @fdncred:

  • Reverted "mkdir errors on already-created dir" (#19008)
  • Fixed table truncating vs wrapping (#18979)
  • Bumped rust toolchain to 1.96.1 (#18968)

• @pickx:

  • Added error to mkdir for already-created dir (#19006)

• @cptpiepmatz:

  • Replaced to yaml --compact-list-indent with --list-indent (#19005)

• @zozo123:

  • Fixed par-each deadlock when chaining same-size thread pools (#18999)
  • Tested Incredibuild self-hosted runner in CI (#18810)

• @mkatychev:

  • Added socket feature flag to handle --no-default-features correctly (#18988)

• @kronberger-droid:

  • Bumped reedline to 06bf606 (#18986)
  • Bumped rust-overlay so the 1.96.1 toolchain resolves (#18985)

• @sidsri14:

  • Propagated error stream values in length, columns, and is-empty (#18976)

• @user93390:

  • Fixed unnecessary string allocations in style_computer.rs (#18975)

• @nos1dot618:

  • Added conditional (if, match, where) tutorials (#18972)

• @philocalyst:

  • Unified completions (#18791)

• @app/dependabot:

  • Bumped the uutils group with 8 updates (#18992)
  • Bumped crate-ci/typos from 1.50.0 to 1.50.1 (#18991)
  • Bumped taiki-e/install-action from 2.86.6 to 2.87.7 (#18990)

reedline

• @kronberger-droid:

  • Read an unbound Alt-<char> as Esc then <char> (#1207)
  • Added MenuAccept to take a completion without submitting (#1203)
  • Re-used a bottom-row prompt if the cursor returns unmoved (#1201)

• @Blfrg:

  • Prevented read_line failure when cursor-position query times out at prompt init (#1202)

• @Jiogo18:

  • Added access to the command line selection (#1200)

• @shreeve:

  • Prevented a menu with no suggestions from swallowing Enter (#1175)

• @catlover-bot:

  • Made copy selection report failure without selection (#1166)

• @sholderbach:

  • Made filtering by cwd case sensitive (#778)

Documentation

• @hustcer:

  • Added Command Type section for command docs (#2241)

• @wahidrizka:

  • Fixed duplicated words (#2239)
  • Fixed broken heading anchors (#2237)
  • Fixed a/an article errors (#2236)

• @NotTheDr01ds:

  • Published TWiN 367 (#2238)