murex

That’s an interesting argument having it hot-key triggered. The shell in its current form already supports hit-keys so I could plug right into your tool verbatim that way. The only issue is you call fork shell so any $SHELL specific behaviours of my shell would be lost. I appreciate this is a personal project and sometimes there is nothing more annoying than having feature requests; but if you did ever decide to add a flag for choosing alternative shells then drop me a message ( raise it as an issue on github.com/lmorg/murex ) and I’ll add ‘up’ as an optional 3rd party plug in.

Indeed. https://github.com/lmorg/murex However I'd still recommend WSL or Powershell over my shell for Windows use as I haven't invested an great amount of time on the Windows port (and certainly haven't used nor tested it extensively on Windows like I do on Linux and FreeBSD). Though at some point - probably after I've finished documenting the thing - I do plan to go back and revisit the Windows port.

Thank you. The source can be found at https://github.com/lmorg/murex Happy to discuss any questions or comments you might have on it.

https://github.com/lmorg/murex It's not without its bugs but I now use it everyday as my primary shell. Documentation is about 30% there but that's something I'm actively working on at the moment. Happy to receive any feedback, possitive or negative :)

Shameless self promotion but I'm writing my own shell, murex, as well[1] The goals of mine are akin to Fish in terms of REPL use but with a greater emphasis on scripting. Like Fish, murex also does man page parsing (in fact I wrote mine before realising Fish did the same), but unlike fish autocompletions can be defined by a flat JSON file (much like Terraform) as well as dynamically with code. Currently I'm working on murexes event system so you can have the shell trigger code upon events like file system changes. My ultimate aim is to make murex a goto tool systems administration tool - if just for myself - but the project is still young [1] https://github.com/lmorg/murex