Bug#1009144: RFP: ble.sh -- Bash Line Editor - Syntax highlighting, auto suggestions, vim modes, etc. in Bash interactive sessions
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : ble.sh
Version : git
Upstream Author : Koichi Murase <myoga.murase@gmail.com>
* URL : https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh
* License : BSD
Programming Lang: Bash
Description : Bash Line Editor - Syntax highlighting, auto suggestions, vim modes, etc. in Bash interactive sessions
Features
- Syntax highlighting: Highlight command lines input by users as in fish and
zsh-syntax-highlighting. Unlike the simple highlighting
in zsh-syntax-highlighting, ble.sh performs syntactic
analysis to enable the correct highlighting of complex
structures such as nested command substitutions, multiple
here documents, etc. Highlighting colors and styles are
fully configurable.
- Enhanced completion: Extend completion by syntax-aware completion, completion
with quotes and parameter expansions in prefix texts,
ambiguous candidate generation, etc. Also, menu-complete
supports selection of candidates in menu (candidate list)
by cursor keys, TAB and S-TAB. The feature auto-complete
supports the automatic suggestion of completed texts as in
fish and zsh-autosuggestions (with Bash 4.0+). The feature
menu-filter integrates automatic filtering of candidates
into menu completion (with Bash 4.0+). There are other
functionalities such as dabbrev and sabbrev like zsh
abbreviations or zsh-abbr.
- Vim editing mode: Enhance readline's vi editing mode available with set -o vi.
Vim editing mode supports various vim modes such as char/
line/block visual/select mode, replace mode, command mode,
operator pending mode as well as insert mode and normal mode.
Vim editing mode supports various operators, text objects,
registers, keyboard macros, marks, etc. It also provides vim-
surround as an option.
- Other interesting features include status line, history share, right prompt,
transient prompt, xterm title, etc.
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