corrupts nushell colored output

[masriomarm]

Summary

using nushell, attempting to insert output of colored text as version. when trying to traverse or alter the text it corrupts.

Reproduction Steps

I tried this:

1. Make sure nushell is installed, and set $env.config.use_ansi_coloring = true
2. set helix shell to

[editor]
shell                  = ["nu", "-l", "-c"]

3. hx
4. insert-ouput version

I expected this to happen:
getting colored input and can be traversed and altered normally.

Instead, this happened:
getting colored input but traversing and altering corrupts text as this asciinema link

Helix log

~/.cache/helix/helix.log

please provide a copy of `~/.cache/helix/helix.log` here if possible, you may need to redact some of the lines

Platform

Linux

Terminal Emulator

wezterm 20250320_072107_a8735851

Installation Method

dnf

Helix Version

helix 25.01.1 (e7ac2fc)

[RoloEdits]

Using latest master and version 0.103.0 I cannot reproduce this.

[masriomarm]

yes, I just noticed that setting $env.config.use_ansi_coloring = "auto" in nushell, removes the ansi coloring when invoked from helix, which returns normal text as insert-output date now. Not sure if the helix should deal with the ansi coloring issue. Will leave it up to the maintainers.

@RoloEdits , if you set $env.config.use_ansi_coloring = true will generate the ansi coloring into helix and cause the issue in the asciinema attached. Will update steps.