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Anyone knows if it's possible to color command line commands as you type them (kind of like an editor)? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Fish shell

You can change the used shell in the configs. At least for Alacritty, when I used it (dont care, it was still kinda broken, I just use Konsole)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, I never heard of setting your shell in the emulator config. I just used 'chsh' once when I setup the install.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah please dont use chsh.

Zsh may work, dash (which is a faster, smaller reimplementation of bash) may work.

But fish absolutely doesnt.

Just because you want to have a nice writing experience, that doesnt mean your whole OS needs a different shell.

I will experiment with dash though. Ubuntu uses it as the root shell, so it is really well tested.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

What do you mean by won't work? chsh is not changing the shell of the entire OS, it's changing your users login shell. Unless you've done something to make your login break without bash, this is completely fine. Using chsh is even how the Fish docs recommend setting it as your default.

What Ubuntu did isnt about login shells, they replaced /bin/sh with dash, meaning any scripts that try to use sh will instead use dash.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the heads up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

please dont use chsh

doesnt mean your whole OS needs a different shell

chsh just changes the shell when you log in to a shell. all the other shells are still available and usable. any script starting tieh #!/bin/bash will still run with bash, even if you're using zsh or fish.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes bash scripts still work, but I heard there may be other things that randomly break.

Many things use #!/bin/sh for example, which often is a link to bash, but may not work anymore.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

chsh does not modify /bin/sh

Maybe you're thinking of a certain video from a certain YouTuber who linked /bin/sh to fish?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Haha no didnt think of that? Hm, I dont know why it would be an issue then. POSIX compliant shells should be no problem, but I wouldnt do it for fish

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It will never matter what your login shell, unless you have bash specific scripts in your login. chsh -s /bin/fish $(whoami) is fine.