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terminix
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black-screen
Discontinued A terminal emulator for the 21st century. [Moved to: https://github.com/railsware/upterm]
Using an advanced terminal emulator. There are multiple good ones to choose from. Just to name a few: GNOME Terminal, Konsole, Terminology, Final Term (discontinued), Terminator and Terminix. For OS X there’s also iTerm2.
Using an advanced shell. While most Linux distributions come with GNU bash) as the default shell (it’s GNU/Linux, after all), many professionals prefer other shells. The most known ones are zsh and fish. Also, check out xonsh if you like Python.
Making use of a plugin framework. zsh and fish come with oh-my-zsh and oh-my-fish, respectively.
Using a custom prompt. oh-my-zsh and oh-my-fish already come with a prompt set up in an awesome way. Still you may want to look at Powerline and oh-my-git. The former provides beautiful and highly-functional prompts for bash, tmux, vim and IPython (among other things). The latter is a super-advanced prompt for working with git.
Making use of a plugin framework. zsh and fish come with oh-my-zsh and oh-my-fish, respectively.
Using a custom prompt. oh-my-zsh and oh-my-fish already come with a prompt set up in an awesome way. Still you may want to look at Powerline and oh-my-git. The former provides beautiful and highly-functional prompts for bash, tmux, vim and IPython (among other things). The latter is a super-advanced prompt for working with git.
Using an advanced shell. While most Linux distributions come with GNU bash) as the default shell (it’s GNU/Linux, after all), many professionals prefer other shells. The most known ones are zsh and fish. Also, check out xonsh if you like Python.
Using thefuck. thefuck is a powerful command correction tool. Its GitHub page describes it as “magnificent”, and I tend to agree. Seriously, check it out.
Oh, and there is one more thing. It has always been a dream of mine to have a modern terminal emulator that would work more like an IDE, utilizing graphical capabilities of our hi-res screens for providing a richer environment, in particular, a much more powerful autocomplete. Well, it seems like my dream is coming true, and the project that is making it a reality is called Black Screen. Maybe in the future we’ll have a decent terminal experience right out-of-the-box, without messing with lots of external tools.