BashStyle-NG 10.3 11

BashStyle-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:

ChangeLog:

10.3 "Odyssey"
==============

   * Bug Fixes
        - #247 (randomfile): fix executing 'randomfile' if neither '-r'
          or '-p' are used.

        - #248 (randomfile): fix handling file or directory names with
          spaces.

   * Misc.  Changes
        - Configure 4.4.0: simplify code

        - Update 'README', 'TODO', Debian GNU/Linux package description.

        - Update german translation.