:pipe does not work with nushell

[leetemil]

Summary

Hi all, thanks for an amazing editor.
I think I've run into an issue: If Nushell/nu is used as shell, any :pipe <cmd> I have tried results in a nu error Shell error: Error: nu::shell::file_not_found. I assume that nu thinks <cmd> is a file and tries to open it (see logs below for full error).

If it's the case that Nushell is just not supported (yet), feel free to close this again.

Reproduction Steps

I tried this:

1. Use Nushell as shell in whatever way that makes Helix use it for :pipe. I use it as default shell.
2. Open Helix and :pipe any command.

I expected this to happen:
The command would be executed by nu, like with nu -c <cmd>.

Instead, this happened:
File not found shell error.

Helix log

~/.cache/helix/helix.log

...
2023-11-09T22:07:14.971 helix_view::editor [ERROR] editor error: Shell error: Error: �[31mnu::shell::file_not_found�[0m

  �[31m�[0m File not found
   ╭─[�[36;1;4msource�[0m:1:1]
 �[2m1�[0m │ nu
   · �[35;1m▲�[0m
   · �[35;1m╰── �[35;1mCould not access file 'sort': "No such file or directory (os error 2)"�[0m�[0m
   ╰────
...

Platform

Linux

Terminal Emulator

Alacritty

Installation Method

pacman

Helix Version

helix 23.10

[pascalkuthe]

It sounds like you just set shell to nu but it needs to be set to nu -c

[leetemil]

Thanks, that was the problem. With

[editor]
shell = ["nu", "-c"]

it works.

[chtenb]

shell = ["nu", "--stdin", "-c"]

That is what works for me