Quoting Otto Kekäläinen (2021-02-21 10:44:02) > On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 at 04:01, Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@canonical.com> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 11:02:24PM +0200, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > > > Do you have any tips about generic command-line coloring programs? > > > > The bat package provides a batcat program that'll add colour to a lot of > > different file formats. There's some screenshots on the github page: > > https://github.com/sharkdp/bat > > Thanks, bat is great. It has now become my standard replacement for 'cat'. > > I recently also switched to fzf[1] for my 'cd' and Ctrl+R use. Just now, looking into fzf thanks to your mentioning it above, I stumbled upon fzy claiming to be a better replacement. I have no experience with either yet myself, just mentioning here as my tiny contribution to this thread... :-) > Thanks to this Debian-devel list I've learnt about both Liquid Prompt > and the fuzzy-finder for the bash prompt, which both are very useful > and solid (and not overly complex or incompatible like all those zsh > extensions many Mac users rely on). I didn't expect that the > command-line efficiency can still increase this much in 2021 and I am > a bit surprised the standard tools shipped in all Linux distros are > still the same as in the past 30 years or so. There is a lot of > productivity improvements people are missing out with the standard > tools.. I personally appreciate a conservative default: I use Midnight Commander which rely on the prompt not being too fancy - and I guess other tools (and folks) might freak out on having e.g. non-ASCII characters embedded in the prompt as well. One area I think could use some improvement, however, is the use of /etc/profile.d: Would make sense that more Debian packages providing shell profile hooks offer a debconf choice of enabling them system-wide - just make sure that the _default_ choice is kept conservative. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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