This Week in Nu #10: New Commands, Debugging, and Documentation

# This week in Nu #10 Lots of new commands this week, some updates in how we handle paths and column paths, better debugging capabilities, improved command help, more work towards getting Nu ready to be a login shell, and more documentation. - We're currently running a [short survey about Nu](https://t.co/nujSjnI0dr?amp=1). Even if you aren't a Nu user, we'd love to hear from you! - wycats added better tracing for debugging the parser ([#892](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/892)) - notryanb updated `fetch` to be able to load URLs from strings and $it ([#886](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/886)) - jonathandturner added updates to always save history ([#881](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/881)); added parameter descriptions to command help ([#882](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/882)); added new builtin variables `$nu:config`, `$nu:env`, and `$nu:path`([#883](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/883), [#884](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/884)); added support for reading the PATH from config ([#885](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/885)), added a new `read` command for easier text handling ([#889](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/889)), and added `prepend` and `append` for adding rows to tables ([#890](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/890)) - andrasio added more support for working with ~ in paths across platforms ([#879](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/879)) as well as added initial support for row numbers in column paths ([#892](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/892), [#898](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/898)) - andrasio also worked on better separation between the parser and other subsystems ([#874](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/874)) - oknozor and loksonarius added more documentation for commands ([#871](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/871), [#873](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/873), [#899](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/899))

This week's Nu update includes new commands, improvements to path and column path handling, enhanced debugging, improved command help, progress towards login shell readiness, and expanded documentation. Key updates include better parser tracing, URL loading from strings, history saving, new built-in variables, PATH config support, a 'read' command for text handling, 'prepend' and 'append' for table rows, and improved '~' path support.