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This is cool! It doesn't fit my current situation. The temporary system I'm dealing with now is a Windows Sandbox for a school project. While it could take a few minutes to install winget and the necessary tools, I'd rather not risk the potential of troubleshooting time, because of the limited amount of time I work on it physically (and because I'm cursed with troubleshooting nightmares on Windows).
But I'll have a look on xxh. It could definitely improve my comfort with servers that do not maintain nushell packages.
Hm, I'm not sure what you're looking for, then.
How are fish abbreviations different from nushell aliases for working on temporary machines? Surely your Windows sandboxes don't have fish installed?
Since fish abbreviations get replaced by the actual abstracted content before the execution, I'm more concise about the tools. And thus I'd remember the ways without my setup better. Then again, it only works for small stuff.
Oh, I see, so you don't exercise your muscle memory but you at least see the "raw" commands more often.
Looks like this was suggested in nushell, and someone came up with a way to emulate the behavior manually: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/5552#issuecomment-2113935091
Edit: there's another issue for this: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/5597
Hopefully nu will decide to implement it properly in the future.