Can we please have one standard way to define shell completions, that is compatible with all shells?

I'm moving from zsh to nushell, and it's relatively new, and you have to configure completions by writing a lot of code, including a lot of files, it's a nightmare.

It's easier for older shells like zsh or fish only because other people already done it, and some packages include per-shell completions.

There is @carapace_sh which attempts to do the right thing, but having completions in the other place than actual app is not very good idea.

https://usage.jdx.dev/ is trying to do the same but differently, and it has a way for an app to provide a schema for completions. This is step in the right direction, but not many tools support this.

Has anyone tried to put this somehow on the shell level? E.q. app includes a file like `myapp.completions` , and shell have a module which reads the file and generates a list of completions based on user input.

The right way to do this, is probably by defining a standard cross-platform/cross-shell schema. And it can be read by the shell, or by the tool like carapace or usage...

Anyone has good resource recommendation for more advanced #nushell scripting? Every single time I just end up going back to Python

Also seems like no LLM currently understands Nu at any reasonable level.

I finally after years meaning to spent like 2 hours messing around in #nushell and yep … I think I kinda love this

“Who could have predicted—based on my previous (~chronological) enthusiasms for perl, ruby, complex bash, jq, k8s, elixir, rust, & powershell—that I might have this reaction?!”

The fact that against an empty prompt I hit tab and quickly discovered `ansi gradient` really probably clenched it tho

Does anyone out there using #NuShell have a good #PasswordStore completions?

I checked https://github.com/tijn/awesome-password-store but alas and alack! Nothing that I could find...

셸 언어는 때로 추하길 요구 받는다

https://hackers.pub/@hongminhee/2025/shell-languages-embrace-ugliness

#Nushell Niceties: Getting The Current Version Of Nushell https://blog.mrhaki.com/2025/03/nushell-niceties-getting-current.html

Discovered [nushell](https://www.nushell.sh) this weekend. Looks pretty cool. Tried it, but there are two things that prevent me from making it my new default shell:
1. pyenv: pyenv init does not work with nushell
2. ESP-IDF: ESP IDF's export scripts do not work with nushell

#Nushell Niceties: Getting The HTTP Response Status https://blog.mrhaki.com/2025/03/nushell-niceties-getting-http-response.html

So #nushell depreciated some part of an old default config, so I removed the depreciated option (--ignore-error or something from a `do` in the prompt), now I get an ugly error from the prompt processing everytime I'm not somewhere in ~.

This is not enjoyable.

just finished wiring up nushell in orgmode thanks to this fantastic package https://github.com/herbertjones/nushell-ts-mode/tree/68afe1a8275880995b4d9a122fecf4accca15183

@nushell does #Nushell support abbreviations the way #fish does?

Everytime I update #Nushell something breaks.

since switching to #nixos, haven't been using #nushell that much.

I have most of a decent blog post written, but the final bits aren't satisfying. So of course I'm puttering with #Nushell, which is not part of the blog post. Keeps me entertained while the rest of my brain works out the important stuff.

I do this often enough that I've added a tiny wrapper for setting `RUST_TEST_NOCAPTURE=1` for cargo in nushell:

```
def --wrapped nocap [...rest] { with-env { RUST_TEST_NOCAPTURE: "1" } { cargo ...$rest }
```

Ran with e.g. `nocap test mytest` . Is there maybe even a simpler way to alias setting an env var in #nushell ?

#nushell to the rescue to quickly run tests in a watch mode when it's not available by default:
`watch . --glob=**/*.ts { clear; try { pnpm test } }`

#Babashka and #Nushell play nice

```clojure
(bb -o -m ron.git.ignores/get default) | save .gitignore --append
```
run `(ron.git.ignores/get default)` as a main function `-m`, printing the result `-o`, and pipe to nushell for to save