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07-15-2014, 01:09 PM
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Registered: Apr 2014
Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux 7.5 (wheezy)
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Bash alternative
Is there a good alternative Bash shell? I saw something the other day that was suppose to speed up coding. I would especially like something whereby you can click on a position to begin your typing there.
Thanks.
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07-15-2014, 03:58 PM
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Thanks!
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07-16-2014, 01:10 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2012
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You could try zsh
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06-15-2017, 05:58 AM
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Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: debian
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There's dash which is bash lite I guess. And the default in debian. AKA /bin/sh is dash, not bash. But there's other shells too. And various "versions" of shells.
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06-15-2017, 06:23 AM
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Registered: Mar 2011
Location: USA
Distribution: MINT Debian, Angstrom, SUSE, Ubuntu, Debian
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Quote:
Originally Posted by battles
Is there a good alternative Bash shell? I saw something the other day that was suppose to speed up coding. I would especially like something whereby you can click on a position to begin your typing there.
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Can you be a bit more specific how this would speed up your coding?
I'm thinking that the shell has little to do with an editor, which is what I'm using when I'm coding.
Meanwhile certain accelerator keystrokes do work within the command line, and thus the shell, at least for me. Such as CTRL <left or right arrow>, or CTRL-a, CTRL-e.
Do you mean that you're typing long commands into the shell and wish this type of feature to help you be more efficient with the shell? |
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06-15-2017, 09:49 AM
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Have we noticed this original question is 3 years old??
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06-15-2017, 09:51 AM
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The Z shell is recommended for power users, and Zsh with the oh-my-zsh framework on Github is the best!
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06-15-2017, 10:16 AM
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Registered: Mar 2011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by grail
Have we noticed this original question is 3 years old??
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Nice catch. Thanks grail. |
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06-16-2017, 04:09 AM
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Registered: Apr 2010
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Originally Posted by rtmistler
Nice catch. Thanks grail.
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It's good though, to resurrect some old topics. Who knows that there is some alternative to Bash already, Ultimate-Power-Bash-Shell.  |
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