What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?
  • Gamma@programming.devEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Zsh is still king in my book. Fish and Bash don’t have the language features, and Zsh completion with menu groups is a premier experience. Fish’s completion from manpages is very good, but there’s also a standard zsh function to complete from --help output.

    If I were to switch shells, it would have to be to nushell.

  • ExLisperA
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    6 days ago

    For me it’s wezterm (for nice tabs and nerdfonts support), starship.rs for some additional info in the prompt and, well, NerdFonts because nothing really works without them anymore. I didn’t have any issues with bash but atuin someone else mentioned looks nice so I will give it a try.

  • dgdft@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I will die on the hill of bash + atuin & ble.sh being absolute peak.

    Atuin is a shell-history tool that stores detailed shell history in Sqlite, and provides a TUI + fuzzy search to query it efficiently. Optional and self-hostable cross-machine sync is available too, with E2E encryption.

    Ble.sh is a bash-enhancement suite that provides autocomplete, syntax highlighting, multi-line editing, etc.

    You can test them both out in under 5 minutes, and uninstall them just as easily if they aren’t your cuppa. Singular warning: install ble.sh before atuin, since atuin will use a different, buggier pre-exec dependency if ble.sh is not present.

    E: ble.sh is getting automatically converted into a link in my comment , and I’m not sure how to stop that w/o side effects. But the correct URLs are https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh & https://atuin.sh/.

    • ExLisperA
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      4 days ago

      Just tried it and atuin is really great. ble.sh is a bit much but after disabling couple of features it’s quite useful. Thanks for the tips.

    • rutrum@programming.devEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Atuin has been such a life saver. I never learned/used whatever mechanism bash had for looking up history… (ctrl+s maybe?) And the history command always seemed to miss things.

  • Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I’ve enjoyed kitty + zsh + oh-my-zsh with a nice long list of plugins that I quite enjoy for a while. It’s rock solid and very easy to configure/migrate to new machines. That plus zen-full tmux and lazyvim with its own set of customizations and plugins has been a complete modern mouse friendly env for both local and remote for me for years.

    Fish is really great too. It gets you a modern shell with a lot of sensible features and defaults out of the box. I feel like it is a bit harder to customize and make your own. That is of course my opinion.