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Windows Terminal
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A glimpse into the universe where Windows died with the 1980s
At this point ConHost.exe is open source [0] so it is maybe not a stretch to expect Microsoft to open source CMD.EXE at some point.
Though with PowerShell being cross-platform and already open source, I personally don't think there's enough to gain in some sort of better open source CMD.EXE fork. I'd be interested in being proved wrong on that, but I'm also happy enough with PowerShell these days I'm not in a hurry to return to CMD.EXE.
[0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/tree/main/src/host
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Overview over Microsoft's developer tools for Windows
GitHub
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Terminal Smooth Scrolling
Windows Terminal is pretty good and a new terminal emulator written in the last few years. No smooth scrolling, here's the GitHub issue requesting it: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/1400
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Microsoft defends Edge's predatory practices with cringe reply on X
Assume its related to this:
https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362
It's nothing serious just microsoft engineers writing slow as shit code and reacting poorly to someone trying to help.
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Should Windows have a default CLI editor?
"There are plenty of offline scenarios where this would be incredibly useful. For disconnected environments, etc. There are some environments that will never connect to winget."
Source: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/discussions/16440#disc...
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Tools to achieve a 10x developer workflow on Windows
The terminal emulator I use is Windows Terminal
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Contour: Modern and Fast Terminal Emulator
Also, Microsoft has their own new terminal program.
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Windows Terminal Preview 1.19
Release notes can be found here: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/releases/tag/v1.19.268...
Some highlights:
starship
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Atuin β Magical Shell History
Agreed, I use this in conjunction with Starship [1], both initialized specifically for Fish in the config. I love this shell so much.
[1] - https://starship.rs/
- Starship.rs: minimal, fast prompt for any shell
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Oh My Zsh
Recently, I moved off from oh-my-zsh after many users, to vanilla zsh with https://starship.rs, mainly due to the loading speed (used https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bench to measure the speed).
Still wanting to try out fish and hopefully soon!
starship is the new spaceship, yo
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Z β Jump Around
It seems like the Rust community is quite happy to support alternative shells. Iβve seen couple of projects, now, that support way more esoteric shells than I would expect, like βxonshβ. Starship (https://starship.rs/) immediately comes to mind.
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[MacOS] Setting up zsh in MacOS, any hints, dos/don'ts, advice, or guides?
Until now I have been using bash on Windows with Starship as the prompt. The only reason I went with Starship, is that it was easy to setup and at the time I did not have much free time to devout to the shell/prompt configuration.
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Monaspace
I'm staying on BitstromWera Nerd Font. Works great with Starship.
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Organizing Multiple Git Identities
I use conditional includes for this, but I also add a single letter describing which Git identity I'm currently using to my PS1 so that it appears before $ in my shell prompt. This prevents me from committing code with the wrong identity, in case I'm using a git checkout that's anywhere not covered by the conditional include rules.
I use Starship (https://starship.rs) to manage my prompt, and wrote a short script that only runs if I'm somewhere in a git repo, and if so finds my Git user's email and looks up the corresponding letter in an associative array declared in my ~/.config/starship-zsh/.zshenv:
git_email=$(git config --get user.email | perl -pe 'chomp if eof')
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fish-shell: the user-friendly command-line shell
https://starship.rs/
A shell theme
What are some alternatives?
oh-my-posh - The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt renderer
spaceship-prompt - :rocket::star: Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt
powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme
ohmyzsh - π A delightful community-driven (with 2,200+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.
zsh-autocomplete - π€ Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.
alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.
fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell.
powerline - Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.
pure - Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt
tide - π The ultimate Fish prompt.
Tabby - A terminal for a more modern age
zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh