shc VS athame

You can turn a bash script into a binary with shc, it would work similarly to an appimage.

It's already known that 'create_sbl' is just an 'encrypted' shell script, processed by shc (or some variant), and it mostly just calls create_hdr and dd to assemble a payload file.

It's also possible to compile scripts into binaries in ways that more-explicitly attempt to obfuscate the contents. One might do this to discourage customers from reverse-engineering commercial ware.

Some links to similar things to your idea:

https://github.com/neurobin/shc

What does ngs do regarding text input... using readline like bash does? Or your own implementation? https://github.com/ardagnir/athame sounds so good for my vim-washed computerbrain. I imagine you don't want to embed NeoVim in your interactive shell (or do you????), but I'm wishing of that being provided in my next era dreamed-of shell <3

vi-mode... perhaps https://github.com/ardagnir/athame ?? perhaps embedding neovim??? but at least the basic modal editing that readline provides.

https://github.com/ardagnir/athame is an interesting looking project, I'd love to have that kind of vimability but am far too maxed out with configuring my tooling so I settle for whatever vi plugin came with oh-my-zsh.

None of these are major criticisms. But I'm wondering if others have also experienced them. I'm also wondering if anybody has found something better than your shell's native vim mode. For example, athame, which sounds great but has gotten very dusty in recent years.

Oh, I misunderstood "commandline editor". To compensate, can I offer this: https://github.com/ardagnir/athame

Athame does this with Vim. I've made a couple of attempts at doing the same thing with Neovim but never made it to the point where it became actually usable (there's a number of issues to overcome, e.g. bash statically linking readline so you can't LD_PREALOAD your own readline replacement, neovim not being very happy with single-line UIs...).

Athame patches readline to be vim-y, but that's usually unnecessary since most shells support vi keybindings. This might be better, since it is truly a vim session (and not emulation), but I haven't used it so idk.

You can test too https://github.com/ardagnir/athame