# Description
For years, Nushell has used `let-env` to set a single environment
variable. As our work on scoping continued, we refined what it meant for
a variable to be in scope using `let` but never updated how `let-env`
would work. Instead, `let-env` confusingly created mutations to the
command's copy of `$env`.
So, to help fix the mental model and point people to the right way of
thinking about what changing the environment means, this PR removes
`let-env` to encourage people to think of it as updating the command's
environment variable via mutation.
Before:
```
let-env FOO = "BAR"
```
Now:
```
$env.FOO = "BAR"
```
It's also a good reminder that the environment owned by the command is
in the `$env` variable rather than global like it is in other shells.
# User-Facing Changes
BREAKING CHANGE BREAKING CHANGE
This completely removes `let-env FOO = "BAR"` so that we can focus on
`$env.FOO = "BAR"`.
# Tests + Formatting
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> **Note**
> from `nushell` you can also use the `toolkit` as follows
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# After / Before Submitting
integration scripts to update:
- ✔️
[starship](https://github.com/starship/starship/blob/master/src/init/starship.nu)
- ✔️
[virtualenv](https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/blob/main/src/virtualenv/activation/nushell/activate.nu)
- ✔️
[atuin](https://github.com/ellie/atuin/blob/main/atuin/src/shell/atuin.nu)
(PR: https://github.com/ellie/atuin/pull/1080)
- ❌
[zoxide](https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide/blob/main/templates/nushell.txt)
(PR: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide/pull/587)
- ✔️
[oh-my-posh](https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/blob/main/src/shell/scripts/omp.nu)
(pr: https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/pull/4011)
# Description
This splits off `scope` from `$nu`, creating a set of `scope` commands
for the various types of scope you might be interested in.
This also simplifies the `$nu` variable a bit.
# User-Facing Changes
This changes `$nu` to be a bit simpler and introduces a set of `scope`
subcommands.
# Tests + Formatting
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- `cargo test --workspace` to check that all tests pass
- `cargo run -- crates/nu-std/tests/run.nu` to run the tests for the
standard library
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> toolkit check pr
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# After Submitting
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# Description
in order to write tests for the `std help` commands, as we currently
have in the Rust source base, we need to be able to manipulate the
output of the `std help` commands.
however, until now they've all been directly printing the help pages as
they go...
this PR tries to build the help pages and return them at the end instead
of printing them on the fly 👍
> **Note**
> this is quite a rewrite of the `help.nu` module 🤔
> i think it might be best to either
> - look at the commits in order
> - test the changes by testing the commands in the REPL and comparing
them to their previous `std help` versions
# User-Facing Changes
```
$nothing
```
# Tests + Formatting
- 🟢 `toolkit fmt`
- 🟢 `toolkit clippy`
- ⚫ `toolkit test`
- ⚫ `toolkit test stdlib`
# After Submitting
```
$nothing
```
