diff --git a/cmd/carapace/cmd/lazyInit.go b/cmd/carapace/cmd/lazyInit.go
index fd7c6cda96..499d4647c0 100644
--- a/cmd/carapace/cmd/lazyInit.go
+++ b/cmd/carapace/cmd/lazyInit.go
@@ -56,11 +56,26 @@ complete -c '%v' -f -a '(_carapace_lazy %v)'`, completer, completer, completer)
 }
 
 func nushell_lazy(completers []string) string {
-	snippet := make([]string, len(completers))
+	exports := make([]string, len(completers))
 	for index, completer := range completers {
-		snippet[index] = fmt.Sprintf(`config set completion.%v [carapace %v nushell _]`, completer, completer)
+		exports[index] = fmt.Sprintf(`  export extern "%v" [
+    ...args: string@"nu-complete carapace"
+  ]`, completer)
 	}
-	return strings.Join(snippet, "\n")
+	return fmt.Sprintf(`module carapace {
+  def "nu-complete carapace" [line: string, pos: int] {
+    let words = ($line | str substring [0 $pos] | split row " ")
+    if ($line | str substring [0 $pos] | str ends-with " ") {
+      carapace $words.0 nushell ($words | append "") | from json
+    } else {
+      carapace $words.0 nushell $words | from json
+    }
+  }
+
+%v
+}
+use carapace *
+`, strings.Join(exports, "\n"))
 }
 
 func oil_lazy(completers []string) string {
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index ddfca6e894..6ce706754d 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir v1.1.0
 	github.com/mitchellh/go-ps v1.0.0
 	github.com/pelletier/go-toml v1.9.5
-	github.com/rsteube/carapace v0.19.5
+	github.com/rsteube/carapace v0.19.6
 	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.4.0
 	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.5
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20211205182925-97ca703d548d
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 7dce6fda48..ef343e15e8 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ github.com/pelletier/go-toml v1.9.5 h1:4yBQzkHv+7BHq2PQUZF3Mx0IYxG7LsP222s7Agd3v
 github.com/pelletier/go-toml v1.9.5/go.mod h1:u1nR/EPcESfeI/szUZKdtJ0xRNbUoANCkoOuaOx1Y+c=
 github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0 h1:4DBwDE0NGyQoBHbLQYPwSUPoCMWR5BEzIk/f1lZbAQM=
 github.com/pmezard/go-difflib v1.0.0/go.mod h1:iKH77koFhYxTK1pcRnkKkqfTogsbg7gZNVY4sRDYZ/4=
-github.com/rsteube/carapace v0.19.5 h1:VPrHbswk0KucIE+kS7CjPCRciqQO0Ham09XGWIYU+L8=
-github.com/rsteube/carapace v0.19.5/go.mod h1:GgiwpPVhucHNOv0AmtIkxhiEFkCMP5BBRauyQLP0mFY=
+github.com/rsteube/carapace v0.19.6 h1:8J+Ln3lzccYnJRGzPPvFGtdZRlYiL2qZ2NhbEgP46DU=
+github.com/rsteube/carapace v0.19.6/go.mod h1:GgiwpPVhucHNOv0AmtIkxhiEFkCMP5BBRauyQLP0mFY=
 github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.1.0/go.mod h1:+Rmxgy9KzJVeS9/2gXHxylqXiyQDYRxCVz55jmeOWTM=
 github.com/spf13/cobra v1.4.0 h1:y+wJpx64xcgO1V+RcnwW0LEHxTKRi2ZDPSBjWnrg88Q=
 github.com/spf13/cobra v1.4.0/go.mod h1:Wo4iy3BUC+X2Fybo0PDqwJIv3dNRiZLHQymsfxlB84g=