BashStyle-NG 10.8


utilities-terminalBashStyle-NG is a graphical tool and function chain that lets you do more with GNU Bash


BashStyle-NG is a graphical tool and toolchain for changing the behaviour and look’n’feel of Bash, Readline, Vim, Nano and GIT.

Possibilities include:

  • Bash
    • 12 fancy pre-defined prompt styles
    • colors are customizable
    • random text color possible
    • random prompt style for each session possible
    • create your own prompt using UI
    • customizing pre-defined ones possible
    • alternatively monochrome prompts instead of colored
    • colored manpages (without using most)
    • colored output from ls and grep (matches)
    •  colors are customizable
    • rembering last visited directory (and restore upon new session)
    • customize bash history settings
    • lscd: customized variant of cd, showing content of directory after cd, can create directories that don’t exist, passing of customized ls parameters possible
    • un/setting shopts (shell options) for Bash 4.3 / 4.0-4.2 / 3.2+
    • customizable completion blacklist, timeout, welcome message and more
  • GIT
    • set GIT user name
    • set GIT mail address
    • set GIT editor for commit messages
    • set GIT colored output
  • Readline
    • un/set completion
    • un/set case sensitivity
    • un/set horizontal completion
    • un/set mark filetypes and folders
    • un/set include hidden files incompletion
    • customize almost 30 keybindings
  • VIM
    • un/set remember last position
    • un/set syntax highlighting
    • un/set auto indention
    • un/set case sensitive search
    • un/set incremental search
    • un/set display line numbers
    • un/set highlight current line/column
    • set dark or bright background
    • set line-wrap and tab-length
    • enable ruler/set ruler format
  • Nano
    • un/set search history
    • un/set syntax highlighting
    • un/set auto indention
    • un/set case sensitive search
    • fix backspace and numblock assignment
  • Extras
    • several extra functions for daily use
    • systemkit: show various system information, including cpu, system load, used/free/total ram and more
    • gitkit: various companion functions for GIT, like exporting the repo (like ’svn export‘), creating tar.gz/tar.bz2/tar.xz/.zip archives from repo, getting active branch/action/revision/revno from repo (for PS1)
    • math conversion functions: convasc, convbin, convdec, convhex, convoct, convtemp. Convert between ascii, binary, decimal, hexadecimal, octal or temperature units
    • random: create random strings (for example passwords) of various types
    • scripts for working with files: map (run a command on given files, for non-batch commands), basefile (extract extension, filename with/without extension or filepath from full filename, similar to basename), randomfile (perform action on a random file, also has history, multiple executions support and more)
    • and several more (see /usr/share/bashstyle-ng/rc/functions/ for all)

=== Installation ===

Installation of BashStyle-NG is straight-forward. Configure and Make are Bash scripts aswell, so no other tools needed for build. For a full list of options see:

  • ./configure –help
  • ./make –help

1)    Check dependencies:    ./configure
2)    Build translations:    ./make build
3)    Install BashStyle-NG:    sudo ./make install

Alternatively you can build a package for Debian-based distributions via

1)    apt-get install fakeroot dpkg-dev
2)    dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot

If there are missing dependencies either Configure or dpkg-buildpackage will
tell you. Optional dependencies are marked as recommended for Debian packages.

=== Program Icons ===

BashStyle-NG uses Oxygen icons by default (supplied), but if the icons exist in your currently active GTK+ icon theme aswell, they will be used instead.

  • 32×32 pixel icons:
    • bs-ng Application logo
    • bs-ng-advanced Icon for ‚Advanced‘ category in UI
    • bs-ng-alias Icon for ‚Alias‘ category in UI
    • bs-ng-doc Icon for ‚Documentation‘ in UI
    • bs-ng-custom Icon for ‚Custom Prompt Builder‘ in UI
    • bs-ng-git Icon for ‚GIT‘ category in UI
    • bs-ng-info Icon for ‚About Dialog‘ in UI
    • bs-ng-keys Icon for ‚Keybindings Setter‘ in UI
    • bs-ng-ls Icon for ‚LS Colors‘ category in UI
    • bs-ng-nano Icon for ‚Nano Configuration‘ in UI
    • bs-ng-readline Icon for ‚Readline Configuration‘ in UI
    • bs-ng-shopts Icon for ‚Shell Options Configuration‘ in UI
    • bs-ng-style Icon for ‚Style‘ category in UI
    • bs-ng-toolbox Icon for ‚Custom Prompt Builder Toolbox‘ in UI
    • bs-ng-vim Icon for ‚VIM Configuration‘ in UI

=== GIT Access ===

You can get the latest in-development version by running:

git clone git://github.com/Nanolx/bashstyle-ng.git

=== Translations ===

  • Current Translations:
    • de (German) (Christopher Roy Bratusek)
  • New Translations:
    • Visit https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bs-ng/ and apply for a team or request the creation of a new one.

=== Bugs ===

Visit https://gitlab.com/Nanolx/bashstyle-ng/issues

before reporting bugs please make sure that you got the latest version of BashStyle-NG.

=== Features Requests ===

If you got an Feature Request or a new Idea for BashStyle-NG, then don’t hesitate to post it! If you can provide patches, then that’s even better.

License: GNU GPL v3
Downloads:

git file-roller deb

ChangeLog:

 

10.8 (20220812) "Aionos"
========================

   * Bug Fixes

        - #277 'colors': the color 'brown' could not be used properly.

        - #278 'manpage colors': fix definition of manpage colors for
          terminals with support for more than 8 colors.

        - #279 'manpage colors': swap 'black' and 'white' on dark
          terminals, before defining 'stand out' color.

        - #280 'bashstyle_history_sync': syncing from within embedded
          terminals (like in 'Geany') works now.

   * New Features

        - Add new 'spell-correct-word' keybinding from Bash 5.2 to
          keybindings setter.

        - Add new keybinding 'fetch-history' from Readline 8.2 to
          keybindings setter.

        - Add new shopt 'globskipdots' from Bash 5.2 to settings.

        - Add 'r', 'reverse' option to 'batchrename' for creating
          reverse filenames.

        - Add 'functions' from 'commandlinefu.com', a function showing
          functions and where they have been defined, by user
          'goelztec'.

        - Add option to change default settings for 'less' pager (may
          conflict with less as 'git' pager when also using 'colored
          manpages').

   * Misc.  Changes

        - Minor improvements to 'bashstyle_history_sync'.

        - Various (minor) UI improvments and remove deprecated
          properties from Glade UI definition.

        - Properly log changing user agent strings for 'cURL' and 'wget'
          in 'HOME/.bashstyle-ng.log'.

        - Properly unset several more variables only used during
          initiliazation.

        - Update german translation.