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Improve Documentation on how to persist aliases

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Description

In the docs https://www.nushell.sh/book/aliases.html there is this statement:

For more details about how to persist aliases so that they're visible when you start up Nushell, see the configuration chapter.

However, if you click on that configuration chapter link and then search the page, you only see a small confusing snippet of a nuopen override example for MacOS, and nowhere else does it show how to persist aliases.

echo $nu.scope.aliases does work to show current aliases made in a session, but there should be a way to persist them much more easily somehow?

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Research direction

Start with the aliases.html page and follow its link to configuration.html. Compare the existing guidance and examples for persistent aliases, then update the documentation so a reader can find the relevant instructions and verify that the link leads to useful information.

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Assessment

Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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