direnv.md

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Direnv

Direnv

Many people use direnv to load an environment upon entering a directory as well as unloading it when exiting the directory. Configuring direnv to work with nushell requires nushell version 0.66 or later.

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Configuring direnv

To make direnv work with nushell the way it does with other shells, we can use the "hooks" functionality:

$env.config = {
  hooks: {
    pre_prompt: [{ ||
      let direnv = (direnv export json | from json)
      let direnv = if ($direnv | length) == 1 { $direnv } else { {} }
      $direnv | load-env
    }]
  }
}

With that configuration in place, direnv should now work with nushell.