Nu Shell Updates - Week #22

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# This week in Nu #22

- Amanita-muscaria added a default `--help` to all commands (#1226)
- jonathandturner added more comments (#1237)
- jonathandturner also added back the functionality to call the native shell when invoking external commands, which allows running shell scripts directory (#1263, #1273)
- thegedge extended support for ctrl-c to more areas in Nu (#1239)
- koenaad extended `sort-by` to be able to sort more file types (#1241)
- wycats and andrasio landed some deep refactoring in the token expansion, coloring, with some additional improvements in both (#1123)
- JesterOrNot improved gitpod support (#1246, #1268) and created a new `clear` command (#1249)
- andrasio fixed some of the test assets and added more testing (#1259, #1260, #1263)
- avandesa fixed the `--no-default-features` build (#1265) and improved the `which` command (#1267)

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Title: Nu Shell Updates - Week #22

Summary

This week's updates to the Nu shell include adding a default `--help` flag to commands, improvements to comments and native shell invocation, expanded ctrl-c support, enhanced `sort-by` functionality, refactoring of token expansion and coloring, improved Gitpod support and a new `clear` command, test asset fixes and more testing, and fixes to the `--no-default-features` build and `which` command.