Nushell Updates: Documentation, VSCode Plugin, and Core Improvements (Week #83)

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# This week in Nu #83

## Documentation

- suzanje fixed some [broken documentation links](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3198)
- mvolkmann fixed a [typo in the documentation](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3216)
- acanalis improved [documenation for the sample scripts](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/33)
- John-Goff added a [new sample prompt](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/pull/32)

## VSCode plugin

- fdncred updated the [VSCode plugin to 0.12](https://github.com/nushell/vscode-nushell-lang/commit/d622b768d034197c2162ab178ae2d6875f491341)

## Nushell

- ahkrr fixed some [prompt-related issues](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3189)
- notryanb added [md5 hashing](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3197)
- gonatz added [forward slash completion for Windows](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3201)
- donnatpanic improved [timezone support](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3207)
- fdncred improved support for [tilde in the path](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3210)
- jonathandturner fixed the [Rust 1.51 warnings](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3214), experimented with some [new engine ideas](https://github.com/jonathandturner/enginep)
- andrasio updated [the test harness to use a custom config](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/3217)

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Title: Nushell Updates: Documentation, VSCode Plugin, and Core Improvements (Week #83)

Summary

This week's Nushell update includes documentation fixes and improvements, an update to the VSCode plugin, and various core Nushell enhancements such as prompt fixes, MD5 hashing, Windows forward slash completion, timezone support improvements, better tilde path handling, Rust 1.51 warning fixes, engine experiments, and test harness updates.