This week in Nushell #211

Nushell

• fdncred added more ps columns in Windows, and changed the right prompt to respect a users locale, and updated format date when using %x %X %r, and allowed --login to be used with nu's --commands parameter, and restored NU_LIB_DIRS and NU_PLUGIN_DIRS defaults, and added plugin path when there are no signatures
• dmatos2012 started using uutils/coreutils cp command in place of nushell's cp command
• jntrnr moved Value to helpers, separate span call
• sholderbach moved spellcheck config into .github folder, and removed codecov.io setup, and documented that open looks up from subcommands, and tweaked the contributor image to include more users, and updated crossterm/ratatui/dev-reedline
• IanManske made sure we restore initial foreground process group on exit
• brunerm99 added search terms for use, while, and range (#5093)
• balupton updated the readme to add dorothy to supported by
• stormasm changed LOG_FORMAT to NU_LOG_FORMAT in nu-std library
• zhiburt made some UI improvements to explore
• rgwood started tidying up explore in preparation for bigger changes: 1, 2, 3, 4
• amtoine fixed default after an empty where, and added support for tab completion cycling, and renamed the types with spaces in them to use -, and moved math constants to standard library
• WindSoilder made a change to return an error when user break sleep by ctrl-c
• nanoqsh made append/prepend consistent for ranges
• dead10ck cleaned up trash support on Android, and fixed unit tests on Android, and upgrade nix to 0.27
• ofek fixed example history command pipeline
• nibon7 auto-formatted let-else blocks, and fixed panics when encountering parsing errors
• horasal allowed operators in constants, and treat path contains '?' as pattern, and prevent crash when use redirection with let/mut
• alsuren updated keybindings help to point to the book's reedline chapter
• MasterMach50 changed default env file to use $nu.home_path to find home
• utouto97 refactored the input command

Extension

• adamcstephens created fix shebang/firstLine detection

Documentation

• JoaquinTrinanes created Simplify external completer
• sholderbach created Document that open looks up froms in scope
• stormasm created add a link to the contributor book at the end of the plugins chapter
• alsuren created Point out where command docs should be edited

Nu_Scripts

• amtoine created add the random-bytes benchmark
• selfagency created Add support for fnm
• fnuttens created Replace exa by eza aliases