Nu Shell Updates: Path Canonicalization, Output Formats, and More

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# This week in Nu #30

Some long-awaited features have landed!

- quebin31 improved how we canonicalize paths inside of Nu (#1485)
- jonathandturner added `to-html` (#1487), `to-md` for markdown output (#1503), automatically change directory when you give a path by itself (#1496, #1506), changing drives in Windows + remembering the previous directory (#1500), and added a `--full` mode to `ps` (#1507)
- jonathandturner also started work on a jupyter notebook kernel for Nu ([https://github.com/nushell/nu_jupyter](https://github.com/nushell/nu_jupyter))
- Sosthene-Guedon improved errors when opening CSV files (#1490, #1492) as well as more generally using `open` (#1495)
- andrasio began to add support for inferring types in unstructured data (#1494), moved the `sum` plugin to an internal command (#1501)
- pulpdrew added docs for `skip` and `skip-while` (#1499)

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Title: Nu Shell Updates: Path Canonicalization, Output Formats, and More

Summary

This week's Nu update includes improvements to path handling, the addition of `to-html` and `to-md` commands for generating output in HTML and Markdown formats, automatic directory changes, drive switching in Windows, a `--full` mode for `ps`, and work on a Jupyter Notebook kernel. Other improvements include better CSV file error handling, type inference for unstructured data, moving the `sum` plugin to an internal command, and documentation for `skip` and `skip-while`.