nushell/crates/nu-protocol
Darren Schroeder 0372e8c53c
add $nu.data-dir for completions and $nu.cache-dir for other uses (#13122)
# Description

This PR is an attempt to add a standard location for people to put
completions in. I saw this topic come up again recently and IIRC we
decided to create a standard location. I used the dirs-next crate to
dictate where these locations are. I know some people won't like that
but at least this gets the ball rolling in a direction that has a
standard directory.

This is what the default NU_LIB_DIRS looks like now in the
default_env.nu. It should also be like this when starting nushell with
`nu -n`
```nushell
$env.NU_LIB_DIRS = [
    ($nu.default-config-dir | path join 'scripts') # add <nushell-config-dir>/scripts
    ($nu.data-dir | path join 'completions') # default home for nushell completions
]
```

I also added these default folders to the `$nu` variable so now there is
`$nu.data-path` and `$nu.cache-path`.

## Data Dir Default

![image](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/343840/aeeb7cd6-17b4-43e8-bb6f-986a0c7fce23)

While I was in there, I also decided to add a cache dir

## Cache Dir Default

![image](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/343840/87dead66-4911-4f67-bfb2-acb16f386674)

### This is what the default looks like in Ubuntu.

![image](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/343840/bca8eae8-8c18-47e8-b64f-3efe34f0004f)

### This is what it looks like with XDG_CACHE_HOME and XDG_DATA_HOME
overridden
```nushell
XDG_DATA_HOME=/tmp/data_home XDG_CACHE_HOME=/tmp/cache_home cargo r
```

![image](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/343840/fae86d50-9821-41f1-868e-3814eca3730b)

### This is what the defaults look like in Windows (username scrubbed to
protect the innocent)

![image](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/343840/3ebdb5cd-0150-448c-aff5-c57053e4788a)

How my NU_LIB_DIRS is set in the images above
```nushell
$env.NU_LIB_DIRS = [
    ($nu.default-config-dir | path join 'scripts') # add <nushell-config-dir>/scripts
    '/Users/fdncred/src/nu_scripts'
    ($nu.config-path | path dirname)
    ($nu.data-dir | path join 'completions') # default home for nushell completions
]
```

Let the debate begin.

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2024-06-11 15:10:31 -04:00
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src add $nu.data-dir for completions and $nu.cache-dir for other uses (#13122) 2024-06-11 15:10:31 -04:00
tests Replace ExternalStream with new ByteStream type (#12774) 2024-05-16 07:11:18 -07:00
Cargo.toml bump version to 0.94.3 (#13055) 2024-06-05 06:52:40 +08:00
LICENSE Fix rest of license year ranges (#8727) 2023-04-04 09:03:29 +12:00
README.md Add nu-protocol 2021-09-02 13:29:43 +12:00

nu-protocol

The nu-protocol crate holds the definitions of structs/traits that are used throughout Nushell. This gives us one way to expose them to many other crates, as well as make these definitions available to each other, without causing mutually recursive dependencies.