paul-d-ray · November 23, 2025 00:46 · paul-d-ray · Nov 23, 2025
diff --git a/Nushell_config.nu b/Nushell_config.nu
 # config.nu
 #
 # Installed by:
 # version = "0.102.0"
 #
 # This file is used to override default Nushell settings, define
 # (or import) custom commands, or run any other startup tasks.
 # See https://www.nushell.sh/book/configuration.html
 #
 # This file is loaded after env.nu and before login.nu
 #
 # You can open this file in your default editor using:
 # config nu
 #
 # See `help config nu` for more options
 #
 # You can remove these comments if you want or leave
 # them for future reference.


 # For more information on defining custom themes, see
 # https://www.nushell.sh/book/coloring_and_theming.html
 # And here is the theme collection
 # https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/tree/main/themes
 let dark_theme = {
    # color for nushell primitives
    separator: white
    leading_trailing_space_bg: { attr: n } # no fg, no bg, attr none effectively turns this off
    header: green_bold
    empty: blue
    # Closures can be used to choose colors for specific values.
    # The value (in this case, a bool) is piped into the closure.
    # eg) {|| if $in { 'light_cyan' } else { 'light_gray' } }
    bool: light_cyan
    int: white
 #    filesize: cyan
    filesize: {|e|
      if $e == 0b {
        'cyan'
      } else if $e < 10mb {
        'light_green'
      } else if $e < 500mb {
        'green'
      } else if $e < 1000mb {
        'yellow'
      } else { 'light_red' }
    }
    duration: white
 #    date: purple
    datetime: {|| (date now) - $in |
      if $in < 1hr {
        'light_red'
      } else if $in < 6hr {
        'light_green'
      } else if $in < 1day {
        'light_green'
      } else if $in < 3day {
        'light_green'
      } else if $in < 1wk {
        'light_green'
      } else if $in < 6wk {
        'green'
      } else if $in < 52wk {
        'yellow'
      } else if $in < 104wk {
        'cyan'
      } else {
         'light_cyan_reverse' }
    }
    range: white
    float: white
    string: white
    nothing: white
    binary: white
    cell-path: white
    row_index: green_bold
    record: white
    list: white
    block: white
    hints: dark_gray
    search_result: { bg: red fg: white }
    shape_and: purple_bold
    shape_binary: purple_bold
    shape_block: blue_bold
    shape_bool: light_cyan
    shape_closure: green_bold
    shape_custom: green
    shape_datetime: cyan_bold
    shape_directory: cyan
    shape_external: light_red
    shape_externalarg: green_bold
    shape_external_resolved: light_yellow_bold
    shape_filepath: cyan
    shape_flag: blue_bold
    shape_float: purple_bold
    # shapes are used to change the cli syntax highlighting
    shape_garbage: { fg: white bg: red attr: b }
    shape_glob_interpolation: cyan_bold
    shape_globpattern: cyan_bold
    shape_int: purple_bold
    shape_internalcall: cyan_bold
    shape_keyword: cyan_bold
    shape_list: cyan_bold
    shape_literal: blue
    shape_match_pattern: green
    shape_matching_brackets: { attr: u }
    shape_nothing: light_cyan
    shape_operator: yellow
    shape_or: purple_bold
    shape_pipe: purple_bold
    shape_range: yellow_bold
    shape_record: cyan_bold
    shape_redirection: purple_bold
    shape_signature: green_bold
    shape_string: green
    shape_string_interpolation: cyan_bold
    shape_table: blue_bold
    shape_variable: purple
    shape_vardecl: purple
    shape_raw_string: light_purple
 }


 # The default config record. This is where much of your global configuration is setup.
 $env.config = {


    show_banner: true # true or false to enable or disable the welcome banner at startup

    ls: {
        use_ls_colors: true # use the LS_COLORS environment variable to colorize output
        clickable_links: true # enable or disable clickable links. Your terminal has to support links.
    }

    rm: {
        always_trash: true # always act as if -t was given. Can be overridden with -p
    }

    table: {
        mode: rounded # basic, compact, compact_double, light, thin, with_love, rounded, reinforced, heavy, none, other
        index_mode: always # "always" show indexes, "never" show indexes, "auto" = show indexes when a table has "index" column
        show_empty: false # show 'empty list' and 'empty record' placeholders for command output
        padding: { left: 1, right: 1 } # a left right padding of each column in a table
        trim: {
            methodology: wrapping # wrapping or truncating
            wrapping_try_keep_words: true # A strategy used by the 'wrapping' methodology
            truncating_suffix: "..." # A suffix used by the 'truncating' methodology
        }
        header_on_separator: false # show header text on separator/border line
        footer_inheritance: true # render footer in parent table if child is big enough (extended table option)
        # abbreviated_row_count: 10 # limit data rows from top and bottom after reaching a set point
    }

    error_style: "fancy" # "fancy" or "plain" for screen reader-friendly error messages

    # Whether an error message should be printed if an error of a certain kind is triggered.
    display_errors: {
        exit_code: false # assume the external command prints an error message
        # Core dump errors are always printed, and SIGPIPE never triggers an error.
        # The setting below controls message printing for termination by all other signals.
        termination_signal: true
    }

    # datetime_format determines what a datetime rendered in the shell would look like.
    # Behavior without this configuration point will be to "humanize" the datetime display,
    # showing something like "a day ago."

 # PR 20231021
    datetime_format: {
        # normal: '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z'    # shows up in displays of variables or other datetime's outside of tables
        # table: '%m/%d/%y %I:%M:%S%p'          # generally shows up in tabular outputs such as ls. commenting this out will change it to the default human readable datetime format
        normal: '%a, %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'  # shows up in displays of variables or other datetime's outside of tables
        table: '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'       # generally shows up in tabular outputs such as ls. commenting this out will change it to the default human readable datetime format
    }

    explore: {
        status_bar_background: { fg: "#1D1F21", bg: "#C4C9C6" },
        command_bar_text: { fg: "#C4C9C6" },
        highlight: { fg: "black", bg: "yellow" },
        status: {
            error: { fg: "white", bg: "red" },
            warn: {}
            info: {}
        },
        selected_cell: { bg: light_blue },
    }

    history: {
        max_size: 100_000 # Session has to be reloaded for this to take effect
        sync_on_enter: true # Enable to share history between multiple sessions, else you have to close the session to write history to file
        file_format: "sqlite" # "sqlite" or "plaintext"
        isolation: false # only available with sqlite file_format. true enables history isolation, false disables it. true will allow the history to be isolated to the current session using up/down arrows. false will allow the history to be shared across all sessions.
    }

    completions: {
        case_sensitive: false # set to true to enable case-sensitive completions
        quick: true    # set this to false to prevent auto-selecting completions when only one remains
        partial: true    # set this to false to prevent partial filling of the prompt
        algorithm: "fuzzy"    # prefix or fuzzy
        sort: "smart" # "smart" (alphabetical for prefix matching, fuzzy score for fuzzy matching) or "alphabetical"
        external: {
            enable: true # set to false to prevent nushell looking into $env.PATH to find more suggestions, `false` recommended for WSL users as this look up may be very slow
            max_results: 100 # setting it lower can improve completion performance at the cost of omitting some options
            completer: null # check 'carapace_completer' above as an example
        }
        use_ls_colors: true # set this to true to enable file/path/directory completions using LS_COLORS
    }

    cursor_shape: {
        emacs: line # block, underscore, line, blink_block, blink_underscore, blink_line, inherit to skip setting cursor shape (line is the default)
        vi_insert: block # block, underscore, line, blink_block, blink_underscore, blink_line, inherit to skip setting cursor shape (block is the default)
        vi_normal: underscore # block, underscore, line, blink_block, blink_underscore, blink_line, inherit to skip setting cursor shape (underscore is the default)
    }

    color_config: $dark_theme # if you want a more interesting theme, you can replace the empty record with `$dark_theme`, `$light_theme` or another custom record
    footer_mode: 10 # always, never, number_of_rows, auto
    float_precision: 2 # the precision for displaying floats in tables
    buffer_editor: null # command that will be used to edit the current line buffer with ctrl+o, if unset fallback to $env.EDITOR and $env.VISUAL
    use_ansi_coloring: true
    bracketed_paste: true # enable bracketed paste, currently useless on windows

 # PR 20240926
    edit_mode: vi # emacs, vi
    shell_integration: {
        # osc2 abbreviates the path if in the home_dir, sets the tab/window title, shows the running command in the tab/window title
        osc2: true

 # PR 20250608
 # https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15914
        # osc7 is a way to communicate the path to the terminal, this is helpful for spawning new tabs in the same directory
        osc7: false

        # osc8 is also implemented as the deprecated setting ls.show_clickable_links, it shows clickable links in ls output if your terminal supports it. show_clickable_links is deprecated in favor of osc8
        osc8: true

 # PR 20250608
 # https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15914
        # osc9_9 is from ConEmu and is starting to get wider support. It's similar to osc7 in that it communicates the path to the terminal
        osc9_9: true

        # osc133 is several escapes invented by Final Term which include the supported ones below.
        # 133;A - Mark prompt start
        # 133;B - Mark prompt end
        # 133;C - Mark pre-execution
        # 133;D;exit - Mark execution finished with exit code
        # This is used to enable terminals to know where the prompt is, the command is, where the command finishes, and where the output of the command is
        osc133: true
        # osc633 is closely related to osc133 but only exists in visual studio code (vscode) and supports their shell integration features
        # 633;A - Mark prompt start
        # 633;B - Mark prompt end
        # 633;C - Mark pre-execution
        # 633;D;exit - Mark execution finished with exit code
        # 633;E - Explicitly set the command line with an optional nonce
        # 633;P;Cwd=<path> - Mark the current working directory and communicate it to the terminal
        # and also helps with the run recent menu in vscode
        osc633: true
        # reset_application_mode is escape \x1b[?1l and was added to help ssh work better
        reset_application_mode: true
    }
    render_right_prompt_on_last_line: false # true or false to enable or disable right prompt to be rendered on last line of the prompt.
    use_kitty_protocol: false # enables keyboard enhancement protocol implemented by kitty console, only if your terminal support this.
    highlight_resolved_externals: false # true enables highlighting of external commands in the repl resolved by which.
 # PR 20250412_2221
 #    recursion_limit: 50 # the maximum number of times nushell allows recursion before stopping it
    recursion_limit: 100 # the maximum number of times nushell allows recursion before stopping it
 }



 # To load from a custom file you can use:
 source ($nu.default-config-dir | path join 'custom.nu')
	# config.nu
	#
	# Installed by:
	# version = "0.102.0"
	#
	# This file is used to override default Nushell settings, define
	# (or import) custom commands, or run any other startup tasks.
	# See https://www.nushell.sh/book/configuration.html
	#
	# This file is loaded after env.nu and before login.nu
	#
	# You can open this file in your default editor using:
	# config nu
	#
	# See `help config nu` for more options
	#
	# You can remove these comments if you want or leave
	# them for future reference.


	# For more information on defining custom themes, see
	# https://www.nushell.sh/book/coloring_and_theming.html
	# And here is the theme collection
	# https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/tree/main/themes
	let dark_theme = {
	# color for nushell primitives
	separator: white
	leading_trailing_space_bg: { attr: n } # no fg, no bg, attr none effectively turns this off
	header: green_bold
	empty: blue
	# Closures can be used to choose colors for specific values.
	# The value (in this case, a bool) is piped into the closure.
	# eg) {\|\| if $in { 'light_cyan' } else { 'light_gray' } }
	bool: light_cyan
	int: white
	# filesize: cyan
	filesize: {\|e\|
	if $e == 0b {
	'cyan'
	} else if $e < 10mb {
	'light_green'
	} else if $e < 500mb {
	'green'
	} else if $e < 1000mb {
	'yellow'
	} else { 'light_red' }
	}
	duration: white
	# date: purple
	datetime: {\|\| (date now) - $in \|
	if $in < 1hr {
	'light_red'
	} else if $in < 6hr {
	'light_green'
	} else if $in < 1day {
	'light_green'
	} else if $in < 3day {
	'light_green'
	} else if $in < 1wk {
	'light_green'
	} else if $in < 6wk {
	'green'
	} else if $in < 52wk {
	'yellow'
	} else if $in < 104wk {
	'cyan'
	} else {
	'light_cyan_reverse' }
	}
	range: white
	float: white
	string: white
	nothing: white
	binary: white
	cell-path: white
	row_index: green_bold
	record: white
	list: white
	block: white
	hints: dark_gray
	search_result: { bg: red fg: white }
	shape_and: purple_bold
	shape_binary: purple_bold
	shape_block: blue_bold
	shape_bool: light_cyan
	shape_closure: green_bold
	shape_custom: green
	shape_datetime: cyan_bold
	shape_directory: cyan
	shape_external: light_red
	shape_externalarg: green_bold
	shape_external_resolved: light_yellow_bold
	shape_filepath: cyan
	shape_flag: blue_bold
	shape_float: purple_bold
	# shapes are used to change the cli syntax highlighting
	shape_garbage: { fg: white bg: red attr: b }
	shape_glob_interpolation: cyan_bold
	shape_globpattern: cyan_bold
	shape_int: purple_bold
	shape_internalcall: cyan_bold
	shape_keyword: cyan_bold
	shape_list: cyan_bold
	shape_literal: blue
	shape_match_pattern: green
	shape_matching_brackets: { attr: u }
	shape_nothing: light_cyan
	shape_operator: yellow
	shape_or: purple_bold
	shape_pipe: purple_bold
	shape_range: yellow_bold
	shape_record: cyan_bold
	shape_redirection: purple_bold
	shape_signature: green_bold
	shape_string: green
	shape_string_interpolation: cyan_bold
	shape_table: blue_bold
	shape_variable: purple
	shape_vardecl: purple
	shape_raw_string: light_purple
	}


	# The default config record. This is where much of your global configuration is setup.
	$env.config = {


	show_banner: true # true or false to enable or disable the welcome banner at startup

	ls: {
	use_ls_colors: true # use the LS_COLORS environment variable to colorize output
	clickable_links: true # enable or disable clickable links. Your terminal has to support links.
	}

	rm: {
	always_trash: true # always act as if -t was given. Can be overridden with -p
	}

	table: {
	mode: rounded # basic, compact, compact_double, light, thin, with_love, rounded, reinforced, heavy, none, other
	index_mode: always # "always" show indexes, "never" show indexes, "auto" = show indexes when a table has "index" column
	show_empty: false # show 'empty list' and 'empty record' placeholders for command output
	padding: { left: 1, right: 1 } # a left right padding of each column in a table
	trim: {
	methodology: wrapping # wrapping or truncating
	wrapping_try_keep_words: true # A strategy used by the 'wrapping' methodology
	truncating_suffix: "..." # A suffix used by the 'truncating' methodology
	}
	header_on_separator: false # show header text on separator/border line
	footer_inheritance: true # render footer in parent table if child is big enough (extended table option)
	# abbreviated_row_count: 10 # limit data rows from top and bottom after reaching a set point
	}

	error_style: "fancy" # "fancy" or "plain" for screen reader-friendly error messages

	# Whether an error message should be printed if an error of a certain kind is triggered.
	display_errors: {
	exit_code: false # assume the external command prints an error message
	# Core dump errors are always printed, and SIGPIPE never triggers an error.
	# The setting below controls message printing for termination by all other signals.
	termination_signal: true
	}

	# datetime_format determines what a datetime rendered in the shell would look like.
	# Behavior without this configuration point will be to "humanize" the datetime display,
	# showing something like "a day ago."

	# PR 20231021
	datetime_format: {
	# normal: '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z' # shows up in displays of variables or other datetime's outside of tables
	# table: '%m/%d/%y %I:%M:%S%p' # generally shows up in tabular outputs such as ls. commenting this out will change it to the default human readable datetime format
	normal: '%a, %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' # shows up in displays of variables or other datetime's outside of tables
	table: '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' # generally shows up in tabular outputs such as ls. commenting this out will change it to the default human readable datetime format
	}

	explore: {
	status_bar_background: { fg: "#1D1F21", bg: "#C4C9C6" },
	command_bar_text: { fg: "#C4C9C6" },
	highlight: { fg: "black", bg: "yellow" },
	status: {
	error: { fg: "white", bg: "red" },
	warn: {}
	info: {}
	},
	selected_cell: { bg: light_blue },
	}

	history: {
	max_size: 100_000 # Session has to be reloaded for this to take effect
	sync_on_enter: true # Enable to share history between multiple sessions, else you have to close the session to write history to file
	file_format: "sqlite" # "sqlite" or "plaintext"
	isolation: false # only available with sqlite file_format. true enables history isolation, false disables it. true will allow the history to be isolated to the current session using up/down arrows. false will allow the history to be shared across all sessions.
	}

	completions: {
	case_sensitive: false # set to true to enable case-sensitive completions
	quick: true # set this to false to prevent auto-selecting completions when only one remains
	partial: true # set this to false to prevent partial filling of the prompt
	algorithm: "fuzzy" # prefix or fuzzy
	sort: "smart" # "smart" (alphabetical for prefix matching, fuzzy score for fuzzy matching) or "alphabetical"
	external: {
	enable: true # set to false to prevent nushell looking into $env.PATH to find more suggestions, `false` recommended for WSL users as this look up may be very slow
	max_results: 100 # setting it lower can improve completion performance at the cost of omitting some options
	completer: null # check 'carapace_completer' above as an example
	}
	use_ls_colors: true # set this to true to enable file/path/directory completions using LS_COLORS
	}

	cursor_shape: {
	emacs: line # block, underscore, line, blink_block, blink_underscore, blink_line, inherit to skip setting cursor shape (line is the default)
	vi_insert: block # block, underscore, line, blink_block, blink_underscore, blink_line, inherit to skip setting cursor shape (block is the default)
	vi_normal: underscore # block, underscore, line, blink_block, blink_underscore, blink_line, inherit to skip setting cursor shape (underscore is the default)
	}

	color_config: $dark_theme # if you want a more interesting theme, you can replace the empty record with `$dark_theme`, `$light_theme` or another custom record
	footer_mode: 10 # always, never, number_of_rows, auto
	float_precision: 2 # the precision for displaying floats in tables
	buffer_editor: null # command that will be used to edit the current line buffer with ctrl+o, if unset fallback to $env.EDITOR and $env.VISUAL
	use_ansi_coloring: true
	bracketed_paste: true # enable bracketed paste, currently useless on windows

	# PR 20240926
	edit_mode: vi # emacs, vi
	shell_integration: {
	# osc2 abbreviates the path if in the home_dir, sets the tab/window title, shows the running command in the tab/window title
	osc2: true

	# PR 20250608
	# https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15914
	# osc7 is a way to communicate the path to the terminal, this is helpful for spawning new tabs in the same directory
	osc7: false

	# osc8 is also implemented as the deprecated setting ls.show_clickable_links, it shows clickable links in ls output if your terminal supports it. show_clickable_links is deprecated in favor of osc8
	osc8: true

	# PR 20250608
	# https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15914
	# osc9_9 is from ConEmu and is starting to get wider support. It's similar to osc7 in that it communicates the path to the terminal
	osc9_9: true

	# osc133 is several escapes invented by Final Term which include the supported ones below.
	# 133;A - Mark prompt start
	# 133;B - Mark prompt end
	# 133;C - Mark pre-execution
	# 133;D;exit - Mark execution finished with exit code
	# This is used to enable terminals to know where the prompt is, the command is, where the command finishes, and where the output of the command is
	osc133: true
	# osc633 is closely related to osc133 but only exists in visual studio code (vscode) and supports their shell integration features
	# 633;A - Mark prompt start
	# 633;B - Mark prompt end
	# 633;C - Mark pre-execution
	# 633;D;exit - Mark execution finished with exit code
	# 633;E - Explicitly set the command line with an optional nonce
	# 633;P;Cwd=<path> - Mark the current working directory and communicate it to the terminal
	# and also helps with the run recent menu in vscode
	osc633: true
	# reset_application_mode is escape \x1b[?1l and was added to help ssh work better
	reset_application_mode: true
	}
	render_right_prompt_on_last_line: false # true or false to enable or disable right prompt to be rendered on last line of the prompt.
	use_kitty_protocol: false # enables keyboard enhancement protocol implemented by kitty console, only if your terminal support this.
	highlight_resolved_externals: false # true enables highlighting of external commands in the repl resolved by which.
	# PR 20250412_2221
	# recursion_limit: 50 # the maximum number of times nushell allows recursion before stopping it
	recursion_limit: 100 # the maximum number of times nushell allows recursion before stopping it
	}



	# To load from a custom file you can use:
	source ($nu.default-config-dir \| path join 'custom.nu')
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