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However, I struggled a little bit with
$ time ls
where the output of `time` is mangled in-between the output of `ls` - this may be related to STDOUT and STDERR buffering?
Sounds neat. However, the fact that `ls -l` either subtracts two numbers or calls a shell command, depending on whether there exist valriables 'ls' and 'l' in the Pythom environment, looks like a security nightmare waiting to happen. What if I create a python object 'ls' deep inside a script that does Evil when subtracted from?
>>> ls `a(a+|b+)a`
aaa aba abba
Sounds neat. However, the fact that `ls -l` either subtracts two numbers or calls a shell command, depending on whether there exist valriables 'ls' and 'l' in the Pythom environment, looks like a security nightmare waiting to happen. What if I create a python object 'ls' deep inside a script that does Evil when subtracted from?
Why not just do the evil directly in the script if you can do that?
what does the "-gazing" suffix mean?
It means that it is not fully sh-lang compatible (i.e. a true unix shell), but is as compatible as reasonably achievable while maintaining full compatibility with Python 3.
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.
Curious: What zsh/fish plugins do you think are missing from xonsh?
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Curious: What zsh/fish plugins do you think are missing from xonsh?
Is there a plug-in for fzf searching your command history?
https://github.com/shahinism/xontrib-fzf-widgets
You can get a list of (known) xontribs here:
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It means that it is not fully sh-lang compatible (i.e. a true unix shell), but is as compatible as reasonably achievable while maintaining full compatibility with Python 3.
What sort of capabilities does sh-lang provide that Python cannot? Does sh-lang have some sort of privileged access to the OS not available to Python?
x=foo; x=${x%o}; echo $x # prints 'fo'
Of course, in python you can just say:
x="foo"; x=x[0:2]
I'll also point out the parent poster, when they wrote "sh-lang", meant "the superset of posix-sh that zsh/bash users expect", because at this point quite a few bash features are expected to work in most sh-like shells.
Naturally, both xonsh and sh (and all other shells pretty much) are turing complete and can execute programs, which makes them all equally capable.
Having equivalent capabilities does not mean things are compatible though. I recommend reading up on what a POSIX shell is, and then reading fish and xonsh's arguments why they're not POSIX compliant (spread through various locations)