nushell / nushell/nushell

Nice things to have from fish

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A:completions A:line-editor category:enhancement category:meta-issue
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Rust
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Description

Related problem

I'm personally very attached to fish ergonomics, I'll try to write a list here of what I notice is missing copmared to it (I'll try to expand it when I try nushell more)

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by locating Nushell's completion entry points and compare their behavior with the fish completion examples linked in the issue, including fish's share/completions directory. Treat the checked-list items as separate requirements and define completion behavior for each before considering the work done.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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