Nushell
Nushell is a powerful and modern non-POSIX shell written in Rust
Installation
See Command Shell example if you want Nushell as your default shell
❄︎ /etc/nixos/configuration.nix
{
pkgs,
...
}:
{
environment.shells = [
pkgs.nushell
];
users.users.myuser= {
shell = pkgs.nushell;
};
}
Configuration
Nushell can be configured with Home Manager
Example
A configuration with Starship prompt and autosuggestion support with carapace or fish shell:
❄︎ ~/.config/nixpkgs/home.nix
$"value(char tab)description(char newline)" + $in
Legacy config:
❄︎ ~/.config/nixpkgs/home.nix
programs = {
nushell = { enable = true;
# The config.nu can be anywhere you want if you like to edit your Nushell with Nu
configFile.source = ./.../config.nu;
# for editing directly to config.nu
extraConfig = ''
let carapace_completer = {|spans|
carapace $spans.0 nushell ...$spans | from json
}
$env.config = {
show_banner: false,
completions: {
case_sensitive: false # case-sensitive completions
quick: true # set to false to prevent auto-selecting completions
partial: true # set to false to prevent partial filling of the prompt
algorithm: "fuzzy" # prefix or fuzzy
external: {
# set to false to prevent nushell looking into $env.PATH to find more suggestions
enable: true
# set to lower can improve completion performance at the cost of omitting some options
max_results: 100
completer: $carapace_completer # check 'carapace_completer'
}
}
}
$env.PATH = ($env.PATH |
split row (char esep) |
prepend /home/myuser/.apps |
append /usr/bin/env
)
'';
shellAliases = {
vi = "hx";
vim = "hx";
nano = "hx";
};
};
carapace.enable = true;
carapace.enableNushellIntegration = true;
starship = { enable = true;
settings = {
add_newline = true;
character = {
success_symbol = "[➜](bold green)";
error_symbol = "[➜](bold red)";
};
};
};
};