nushell/reedline

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A feature-rich line editor - powering Nushell

Stars: 817
Forks: 247
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 95
Avg merge: 4d 14h
Merged PRs (30d): 30

Dominant language: Rust
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue

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95 open issues indexed

Edit-mode roadmap: emacs, vi and helix Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nushell/reedline#1221 · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Chord keybindings: one shared resolver over a trie Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

nushell/reedline#1204 · Opened Sep 5, 2026
Jump onto text object while outside of text object Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

nushell/reedline#1195 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
HistoryHint(Word)Complete events don't work in Helix Normal mode Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 66/100

nushell/reedline#1185 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 23, 2026
Completion menu stays active for the rest of the line once opened Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 84/100

nushell/reedline#1176 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 19, 2026
Proposal: host hooks for paste interception + timing-based paste-burst detection (Warp/ConPTY) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nushell/reedline#1127 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2026
F13-F20 keybindings do not work Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nushell/reedline#1076 · 13 comments · Opened May 15, 2026
vichangemode fails to switch to normal mode after executehostcommand Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

nushell/reedline#1070 · 3 comments · Opened May 10, 2026
Proposal: Add a status bar below the input prompt Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

nushell/reedline#1063 · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 28, 2026
History expansion (!!) triggers inside backtick-quoted strings, corrupting file paths Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

nushell/reedline#1056 · Opened Apr 19, 2026
Suspending the buffer editor causes nushell to hang Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

nushell/reedline#1054 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 17, 2026
Proposal: option to insert completions immediately without "submit" keypress Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nushell/reedline#1029 · 3 reactions · Opened Feb 14, 2026
Slow prompt display (~2s) with terminals that don't respond to cursor position queries Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nushell/reedline#1010 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 15, 2026
Unbinding Shift+I does not appear to do anything Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nushell/reedline#1008 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 14, 2026
Vi Normal movement key rebind break the visual/select mode. Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

nushell/reedline#1007 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 14, 2026
Inline-diagnostics for users typing a prompt Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nushell/reedline#1003 · 11 comments · Opened Jan 11, 2026
Cursor position after up arrow history cycling is unconventional on multi-line statements Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nushell/reedline#999 · 6 comments · Opened Jan 7, 2026
Allow ESC to be binded to custom action, when not in tab complete, at least when nothing being inputed Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nushell/reedline#990 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 28, 2025
language server support Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nushell/reedline#979 · Opened Nov 28, 2025
shift+backspace does nothing when `use_kitty_protocol = true` Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

nushell/reedline#975 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 21, 2025
Long history hint makes prompt invisible Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nushell/reedline#974 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 20, 2025
Allow completers to choose partial completions Open

A-Completions enhancement P-low

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nushell/reedline#971 · Opened Nov 11, 2025
Unnecessary completion request when updating the common prefix to the command line. Open

A-Completions bug P-low

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nushell/reedline#964 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 15, 2025
Terminal Scrolling Breaks After Large Multi-line Paste Operations Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nushell/reedline#948 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 28, 2025
Disable or turn off echo Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nushell/reedline#940 · Opened Aug 5, 2025
Recreate and Redraw Prompt on resize Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nushell/reedline#938 · Opened Jul 27, 2025
'ctrl+i' and 'ctrl+m' simulate 'Tab' and 'Enter' respectively Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nushell/reedline#937 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2025
Disable History Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nushell/reedline#934 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 17, 2025
Bug: When the window size changes, it causes drawing residue Open

line editor

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nushell/reedline#930 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 10, 2025
is there something like completion-prefix-display-length (~/.inputrc)? Open

A-Completions enhancement P-low

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nushell/reedline#909 · Opened May 18, 2025
Lag when pasting from terminal since 0.37 Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nushell/reedline#907 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 30, 2025
Prompt repaint issue on term resizing, with non-empty right prompt Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nushell/reedline#897 · Opened Mar 26, 2025
Perf issue: scrolling in the completion menu keeps triggering (re)parsing of the command line over and over Open

A-Completions A-Performance bug P-low

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nushell/reedline#885 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 9, 2025
Handle more events for until keybindings Open

A-EditOps A-KeybindingEmacs A-ViKeybinding enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

nushell/reedline#876 · 22 comments · Opened Jan 26, 2025
When Reedline may encounter "The cursor position could not be read within a normal duration"? Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

nushell/reedline#870 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 3, 2025
`printf "\e[6n"` command causes nushell prompt to output `^[[<row>;<col>R` every time enter is pressed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

nushell/reedline#860 · 13 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Dec 5, 2024
How should output be done ideally? Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

nushell/reedline#836 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 28, 2024
Command history additional alternative to sync_on_enter Open

A-History enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nushell/reedline#806 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 14, 2024
Cursor slowdown when pressing left/right arrows and there is a lot of text in the prompt Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nushell/reedline#795 · 2 comments · Opened May 29, 2024
Mouse controls Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nushell/reedline#786 · 1 comment · 7 reactions · Opened May 1, 2024
New actions to cancel menu & accept-and-hold Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

nushell/reedline#767 · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 10, 2024
`Move(Big)WordRightEnd` is off-by-1 in insert mode Open

A-ViKeybinding bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nushell/reedline#766 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 9, 2024
When prompt starting row is 0, new prompt is rendered on each key type Open

A-Display bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nushell/reedline#756 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 19, 2024
better history suggestions Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nushell/reedline#748 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 9, 2024
The `sqlite` feature changes behavior of many tests but tests should be additive Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nushell/reedline#744 · Opened Feb 4, 2024
Prompt jumps to end of screen Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nushell/reedline#665 · 4 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Nov 12, 2023
Key events are reported incorrectly Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

nushell/reedline#663 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 11, 2023
multiline paste doesn't render text when ending in newline Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nushell/reedline#649 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 24, 2023
No operations in `until` will be handled after an `EditCommand` Open

A-EditOps A-KeybindingEmacs A-ViKeybinding

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nushell/reedline#644 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 6, 2023
create buffers with different names to avoid swap clashing in Vim Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nushell/reedline#605 · Opened Jul 15, 2023

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