shell-bling-ubuntu VS nixos-config

Personally, I only really got into working at the shell once I started exploring all of the wonderful new programs that people have been writing to make it easy as pie to work with. I ended up collecting them all together into scripts I can `curl | bash` on any new Ubuntu machine: https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu

Obviously these scripts won't work on Mac. But I do list the programs I install in it right in the README, including what I consider the "Holy Trinity": `rg` (really fast line searching), `fd` (really fast file finding), and `fzf` (best described with examples: see https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf). These all work on my wife's Mac identically to how they work on my own Linux box, and they make the experience of working at a shell much more pleasant.

Finally, install fish! https://mmazzarolo.com/blog/2023-11-16-my-fish-shell-setup-o... You can get back to Bash once you've gotten used to using the shell and find a reason to. Fish is much more pleasant, IMO, and I try to use it wherever I can these days.

Yes! This is why I pair the two up in https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu.

These context clues are especially important for newcomers to the command line. A CLI newbie who sticks with it might eventually progress to the point where they decide to ditch Starship, or to ditch fish, or to ditch both, but until they get to that point, the solid defaults and OOTB features of these two have a lot going for them.

Alternatively, if you simply wish to occasionally bring Copilot into your shell, you should know that Ctrl+X Ctrl+E (on bash) / Alt+E (on fish) will open your current shell line up in $EDITOR, which you may set to Vim or Neovim.

From there, :wq will drop the text back into your command line. If you have Copilot set up in either of those, then it will also work here.

I know from working on https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu that Neovim's LazyVim setup now supports Copilot out of the box now. I never had much trouble setting up the Vim plugin either. YMMV.

https://lnav.org/ has a feature that single handedly sold me on trying out the fantastic software: An SSH-reachable playground. It's right there above the fold on the first page: ssh://[email protected]

I want to build a similar playground for people who want to get familiar with the tools my Shell Bling Ubuntu repo provides ( https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu ). Ideally it consists of a series of very simple tasks to get one's feet wet with each tool provided: Using fish's autocompletion, then using fzf's shell keybindings, then using rg instead of grep to search an enormous number of files for a single needle character in a million lines of wheat , and so on.

I have no clue how to do this safely. I've never seen how anyone else does it either. Can anyone provide me some pointers?

Alternatively, if you just want to integrate Copilot into Neovim and get on with your day, I recently discovered that the latest LazyVim integrates it as an extra.

I actually discovered this while working on Shell Bling Ubuntu, which is a couple of easy scripts to get you a bunch of modern command line tools nice and configured in one go, but you can just scroll down to "Add Copilot to Neovim" to see. It's refreshingly user friendly for NV configs.

https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/shell-bling-ubuntu

If you use home-manager, installing starship is as simple as adding `programs.starship.enable = true;`.

https://github.com/srid/nixos-config/blob/master/home/starsh...

Incidentally, starship also gives a visual indication of whether you are in the nix shell or not, which is pretty handy when using direnv:

https://nixos.asia/en/direnv

In https://github.com/srid/nixos-config I share home-manager modules (everything under ./home/ basically) between NixOS and macOS.