colorls VS direnv

colorls: Colorizes the ls output with color and icons (requires gem). Includes many useful flags, such as --gs for Git status, or -t for a tree view: I use an alias to replace ls with colorls:

colorls is installed for a neat ls command called lc in powerlevel10k: https://github.com/athityakumar/colorls

# Fancy Bash Prompts. Notes From my .bashrc #---------------------------------- # Homepage, then the command to activate # Starship -> https://starship.rs/ #eval "$(starship init bash)" # Silver https://github.com/reujab/silver #source <(silver init) # Pureline https://github.com/chris-marsh/pureline #source ~/.pureline/pureline ~/.pureline.conf ## another nice little tool # colorls ruby thing # https://github.com/athityakumar/colorls#installation

Now my terminal looks very good! Unfortunately, though, I noticed a screenshot from the colorls Github page and now I definitely want to configure fish to look like this, but that theme is made for zsh (oh my zsh).

This project is heavily inspired by the super colorls project but with some little differences. For example it is written in rust and not in ruby which makes it much faster.

Could be wrong but I think that is colorls - https://github.com/athityakumar/colorls

I also made the export diff configurable, motivated by this post: https://github.com/direnv/direnv/pull/1233

Nice.

For years I've been using [direnv](https://direnv.net/) for this, setting environment variables which git picks up. This looks like a more feature complete equivalent, although to be honest I only really need switching of committer email and the SSH key used.

Direnv, for the uninitiated, loads and unloads environment variables when directories are entered and exited. Under every project folder there is a `$PROJ_DIR/.envrc` which contains:

buffer-env: A pure-Elisp version of the direnv utility. Useful to make Emacs aware of Python virtualenvs (which, judging by the questions posted here, is unfortunately still a complication for a lot of people). Similar to (and inspired by) envrc, but doesn't require the direnv program.

You can look at direnv to see this in action as they wrote shell hooks that get loaded into the shell profile and are executed on every prompt. https://direnv.net/

Yes, most Nix users employ https://direnv.net or the equivalent for your IDE of choice. Emacs for instance has https://github.com/purcell/envrc which set per-buffer variables.

The more applications I write, the more I tend to avoid typical config files in favor of using direnv [0] to set environment variables.

[0] https://direnv.net/