Bashstrap – For your OS X terminal

Post by tsetse-fly » Mon, Dec 23, 2013, 1:52 AM UTC

kika wrote: post #33

krrrh wrote: post #23

I remember spending so many happy hours customizing bash back in my early years with unix. Now I'm older and wiser, and I just use fish. http://fishshell.com I think that it should be especially appreciated by those who use OSX for its "it just works" approach. A couple of pro tips: * Instead of running chsh to change your default login shell just change the shell command for Terminal.app it iTerm. This means that sc…

Clicked on comments to say the same. When I discovered fish, I felt like "where have I been". But there's one downside though: I got used (used as in muscle reflexes) to things like ls -l `where something` and they do not work anymore, fish is not backwards compatible with bash.

Post by john2x » Mon, Dec 23, 2013, 2:30 AM UTC

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Post by mugiwara » Mon, Dec 23, 2013, 5:47 AM UTC

krrrh wrote: post #23

I remember spending so many happy hours customizing bash back in my early years with unix. Now I'm older and wiser, and I just use fish. http://fishshell.com I think that it should be especially appreciated by those who use OSX for its "it just works" approach. A couple of pro tips: * Instead of running chsh to change your default login shell just change the shell command for Terminal.app it iTerm. This means that sc…

Post by barryclark » Mon, Dec 23, 2013, 6:10 AM UTC

dinedal wrote: post #25

I'm a zsh-er and use oh-my-zsh, but I borrowed the syntax highlighting, called it `sat` short for "source cat", and piped through less for paginated output: # before use: [sudo] easy_install pygments alias sat='pygmentize -O style=monokai -f console256 -g | less' I like these kinds of projects, because someone always shows me something in my set up I don't have, and it's really trivial to borrow from them. In return,…