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Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell

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Re: Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell

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Post by devnonymous »

di wrote: post #2

Xonsh is awesome! Execute Python directly on the command line?! Sign me up! Sadly it doesn't play well with all of my three thousand various vim plugins, so I still haven't been able to use it as my daily shell. Hopefully someday!

If vim plugins are the only thing holding you back you might want to consider just adding

   set shell=/path/to/bash
to your vimrc and see how you get along.

Re: Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell

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Post by meowface »

Sounds amazing. If it ever gets a relatively active plugin ecosystem like zsh or fish, I'd definitely switch. Being able to write shell functions in Python would be very refreshing.

If they want bigger adoption, dedicating a bunch of people who do nothing but port zsh and fish plugins would probably go a long way.

Re: Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell

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Post by scrollaway »

devnonymous wrote: post #5
sciurus wrote: post #3

A better URL is https://xon.sh/

Also previous https://hn.algolia.com/?query=xonsh%20&sort=byPopularity&pre...

Note a couple of those use the .org tld. That is not a legitimate site, do not use that.

Ref: https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/1077

Re: Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell

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Post by scopatz »

meowface wrote: post #6

Sounds amazing. If it ever gets a relatively active plugin ecosystem like zsh or fish, I'd definitely switch. Being able to write shell functions in Python would be very refreshing. If they want bigger adoption, dedicating a bunch of people who do nothing but port zsh and fish plugins would probably go a long way.

We have a couple of dozen very handy plugins available already (powerline, conda support, etc) and are always looking for more!

Re: Xonsh: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell

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Post by scopatz »

di wrote: post #2

Xonsh is awesome! Execute Python directly on the command line?! Sign me up! Sadly it doesn't play well with all of my three thousand various vim plugins, so I still haven't been able to use it as my daily shell. Hopefully someday!

Can you please open an issue detailing the problem? https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues I'd love to help make this work. I believe that the emacs folks have something that works for them
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