mise en support for target directory config

[rsyring]

Currently, I use mise activate in my shell and expect mise to do it's thing when I cd into a project with a mise.toml.

I've been thinking about a more explicit activation of mise and came across mise en in the 2025 announcement. Agree on the command name BTW. :o)

Anyway, I was expecting mise en to work like this:

~ $ mise en ~/projects/foobar

with my goal being a shell opened to that directory, configuration in ~/projects/foobar/mise.toml applied, and tasks in that directory available. The equivalent end-result being what I would have had with mise activate + cd ~/projects/foobar.

But that didn't work as expected and, upon reading the docs further, saw that the command "starts a new shell with the mise environment built from the current configuration."

So I need to do instead:

~ $ cd ~/projects/foobar
~/projects/foobar $ mise en .

I'm not sure what the use case is for opening a new shell with the current path's configuration while ignoring the configuration in the target directory. But, could mise en be enhanced so it takes into consideration configuration in the target directory?

If there is a use case for ignoring target directory configuration, maybe that can be an option instead of the default?

mise en --ignore-config ~/projects/foobar

[jdx]

I think it should behave as you expected