dotfiles VS fzf

> An interactive shell can be a login-shell or a non-login-shell.

A shell can be login and non-interactive.

This happens e.g when starting a session from a X session manager. Subsequently a terminal such as Xterm starts non-login interactive sessions.

Similarly doing ssh starts a non-interactive login shell.

> However, bash behaves like an interactive non-login shell in this case and reads `bashrc`.

IIRC nope: distros such as Debian often have bashrc source bash profile (or the other way around, I can't recall) which has me irate to no end+. They even have some TTY dependent stuff in profile which spits out some error in some cases when no TTY is allocated because heh not interactive.

+ I took great length to have my rc and profile properly separated because it's that much faster not to source the unneeded stuff. https://github.com/lloeki/dotfiles

Got a similar repo: https://github.com/lloeki/dotfiles

A couple of differences though.

- there's a setup script to do the basic symlinks, automatically from the files in the "home" subdir by prepending the names with .

- then for shell stuff everything is sourced from either shell, bash, or zsh subdirs, all in modular files

- shell dir content is autoloaded based on +x

- there are polyfills for bash that makes it more zsh-like (stuff like precmd)

- each shell module tests for tool presence and is a noop or sets up a fallback when the tool is not available, so I can clone this on any system and have it still work, gracefully degrading down to zero deps except the shell itself

- it also attempts to provide a uniform experience across bash versions and OSes (darwin, linux)

- prompt is minimal (workdir, dirname only, not the full path), increases with detail progressively and in a hierarchical order (root if root, host if ssh, workdir, vcs branch if in repo, vcs status as symbols if nonempty, venv name if virtualenv, "nix" if in nix shell)

In addition, I think bash's `operate-and-get-next` can be very helpful. When you go back through your shell history, you can hit Ctrl+o instead of enter and it will execute the command then put the next one in your history on the command line, and keep track of where you are in your history. This way, you can rerun a bunch of commands by going to the first one and Ctrl+o till you are done. And you can edit those commands and hit Ctrl+o and still go to the next previously run command.

Note: fzf's history search feature breaks this. https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/issues/2399

fzf : https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Those are the most used aliases in my gitconfig.

"git fza" shows a list of modified/new files in an fzf window, and you can select each file with tab plus arrow keys. When you hit enter, those files are fed into "git add". Needs fzf: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

"git gone" removes local branches that don't exist on the remote.

"git root" prints out the root of the repo. You can alias it to "cd $(git root)", and zip back to the repo root from a deep directory structure. This one is less useful now for me since I started using zoxide to jump around. https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

> my history is so noisy I had to find another way

The fzf search syntax can help, if you become familiar with it. It is also supported in atuin [2].

[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#search-syntax

[2]: https://docs.atuin.sh/configuration/config/#fuzzy-search-syn...

You call it with `n` and get an interactive fuzzy search for your directories. If you do `n ` instead, it’ll start the find with `` already filled in (and if there’s only one match, jump to it directly). The `ls` is optional but I find that I like having the contents visible as soon as I change a directory.

I’m also including iCloud Drive but excluding the Library directory as that is too noisy. I have a separate `nl` function which searches just inside `~/Library` for when I need it, as well as other specialised `n` functions that search inside specific places that I need a lot.

¹ https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

² https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

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I do find the history pager stuff interesting, but ultimately not of tremendous use for me. I rebound all my history search stuff to use fzf[1] (via a fish plugin for such[2]), and so haven't been aware of the issues

[1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

[2] https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish

You can also use fzf with ripgrep to great effect:

[1]: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/ADVANCED.md#usin...