Per directory $env

[nushell]

Per directory $env

[dysinger]

I use direnv with fish shell and I need a replacement.

[dbarnett]

Would this be the default $env behavior, or how would you use it?

[wycats]

The basic idea is that a directory could have something like a .nu file (toml, probably) in it that could supplement the environment and possibly the path.

[jedahan]

whats the difference between this being built-in, versus having a .nurc that just does test -f $PWD/.env && grep ^export $PWD/.env | source - or something along those lines.

[mlh758]

In other shells I use direnv to put a .envrc file in some of my dev projects where the app is normally configured via environment variables. When deployed they would already be setup with Kubernetes or Chef or something but in development it saves me some typing.

[thegedge]

Yeah, we definitely want to make this work, and believe it's a generally useful feature that it should be part of the core.

[samhedin]

I would like to give this a try, if it's alright!

[sophiajt]

@samhedin - please do! Feel free to reach out on discord if you have questions or want to brainstorm.

[arashout]

This can probably be closed with @samhedin PRs