# Nushell core team meeting 2024-06-19
## Attendees
- Ian
- Andy
- Jakub
- Darren
- Michael
- Antoine
- Devyn

## Agenda

### Set current working directory at startup #12953

[This PR #12953](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/12953) sets the current working directory to the location of the Nushell executable at startup.

Michael: I am trying to understand this better...
Currently when I start up Nushell it starts in the directory I am located in at the time of Nushell firing up. And I believe it has always worked this way ?

#### Reedline in concert with Nushell on $env.PWD
- [Add PWD to the Reedline state](https://github.com/nushell/reedline/pull/796)
- [Michael discord comment](https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/683070703716925568/1252648937446178857)

### ctrlc and plugins

### `run-external` parsing

[#13089](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/13089)

## Discussed Topics

### PWD changes - current directory at startup

- Let's not merge for now, go next release
- Probably broken behavior, so need to be cautious
- The things it breaks are already doing the wrong thing, but we need time to fix them

### `nu-ansi-term`

- Request help to look at PRs sitting there
- Making changes to `nu-ansi-term` is a bit of a pain, if it's a major change then ls_colors has to update
- Our most widely used crate, need to not break it

### ctrlc and plugins

- Signal handler only has a reference to the ctrlc `AtomicBool` but need to be able to let all of the plugins know too

### `run-external`

- Try to fix remaining issues, then try to go ahead with it today, or tomorrow at the latest
- Have enough time to dogfood it if we do it right now

### vendor autoload dir

- Suggest `PREFIX` to be `/usr/local` by default
- Should not expect `PREFIX` to contain `share` (should be appended)

## Issues
> :bulb: the issues which [needs-core-team-attention](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/labels/needs-core-team-attention)

> :bulb: **Note**
> to list all the PRs currently [opened in `nushell/nushell`](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pulls):
> ```nu
> gh pr list --json url,number,author,title
> | from json
> | each {|i|
> $"- [($i.number)]\(($i.url)\) ($i.title) \(@($i.author.login)\)"
> }
> | reverse
> | to text
> ```