I also use ble.sh and I'm happy about it. Didn't want to install altshells because sometimes stuff I install includes instructions on what to add to bashrc to make it work, and other times programs might rely on bashrc being used and even put something there automatically, which is ofc a terrible practice, but it happens. Not ever having to translate commands/config from bash to another shell is a big win for me. I mostly use just a simple history-based autocomplete in ble.sh.

Atuin has been such a life saver. I never learned/used whatever mechanism bash had for looking up history... (ctrl+s maybe?) And the history command always seemed to miss things.

Just tried it and atuin is really great. ble.sh is a bit much but after disabling couple of features it's quite useful. Thanks for the tips.

I also install starship.

Recently tried it and do like

I thought you weren't supposed to use Fish as your login shell directly since it isn't fully POSIX compatible

@ExLisper @cm0002 wezterm is a fantastic terminal emulator. bit slow on startup but it's got everything you need. plus I love the lua config that reloads it on the fly, makes customizing a breeze. I use that sometimes but I always end up going back to Foot. I'm one of those "minimal, lightweight, fast" nerds and Foot is just solid and quick. Works great with Yazi and images. Use it with Oh My Zsh which I love for the plugins and is a life saver cause I ALWAYS forget commands and hell even forget the IP for my server.

First paragraph after the introduction:

what is a “modern terminal experience”? Here are a few things that are important to me, with which part of the system is responsible for them:

• multiline support for copy and paste: if you paste 3 commands in your shell, it should not immediately run them all! That’s scary! (shell, terminal emulator)
• infinite shell history: if I run a command in my shell, it should be saved forever, not deleted after 500 history entries or whatever. Also I want commands to be saved to the history immediately when I run them, not only when I exit the shell session (shell)
• a useful prompt: I can’t live without having my current directory and current git branch in my prompt (shell)
• 24-bit colour: this is important to me because I find it MUCH easier to theme neovim with 24-bit colour support than in a terminal with only 256 colours (terminal emulator)
• clipboard integration between vim and my operating system so that when I copy in Firefox, I can just press p in vim to paste (text editor, maybe the OS/terminal emulator too)
• good autocomplete: for example commands like git should have command-specific autocomplete (shell)
• having colours in ls (shell config)
• a terminal theme I like: I spend a lot of time in my terminal, I want it to look nice and I want its theme to match my terminal editor’s theme. (terminal emulator, text editor)
• automatic terminal fixing: If a programs prints out some weird escape codes that mess up my terminal, I want that to automatically get reset so that my terminal doesn’t get messed up (shell)
• keybindings: I want Ctrl+left arrow to work (shell or application) being able to use the scroll wheel in programs like less: (terminal emulator and applications)

There are a million other terminal conveniences out there and different people value different things, but those are the ones that I would be really unhappy without.

So basically it’s the features that have been standard in shells and terminal emulators for the past couple of decades.

This is possible you just need a version of VIM that was compiled with the clipboard feature enabled.

Are you talking about the + register? You could also map this to be the default "yank" register.

Is that a starship prompt? How do you style that divider above the prompt that way? It looks really good.

edit: I've read up a bunch on starship and now understand, very nice.