Bashstyle-NG (11.3 'Surimi Syndicate') ::

Introduction⌗

BashStyle-NG is a graphical utility and toolchain for changing the look, feel, and behavior of Bash, Readline, Vim, Nano, and Git. It acts as a central hub to add advanced features, configuration and visual enhancements into standard command-line tools, making the terminal environment more user-friendly and powerful.

The following is a shortened summary of possibilities, see the documentation for more.

Prompt Customization⌗

Prompt Styles: Includes 12 pre-defined prompt designs which can be randomized per session or customized.
Custom Prompt Builder: A modular prompt builder inside the GUI allows users to create their own custom prompt layouts, or modify the predefined styles.
Color Schemes: Full control over text and prompt colors, with optional monochrome modes.

Utility Enhancements⌗

Colored Output: Allows colored rendering for traditional manpages, ls, gcc error messages and grep matches.
Directory Tracking: Features a custom lscd/treecd command that remembers the last visited directory, auto-restores directory on new session, and prints directory contents immediately after navigating.
Git Status Integration: dynamically displays the current Git branch, revision, action, and more straight in the prompt.
History: customize how many commands the shell remembers, ignores duplicate entries, and controls how history is written to disk. This includes the options for history isolation - meaning that terminal sessions have no outside visible history. Or the opposite history sync, when active, reloading the prompt (pressing enter), will load any new history created from other sessions.

Configuration Management⌗

BashStyle-NG handles it’s own configuration through ConfigObj, all Text and Number settings have two icons. The left icon (back arrow) reverts to previously saved user configuration if a setting was changed in the running BashStyle-NG instance. The right icon (broom/trash) reverts to the factory default setting, which is either BashStyle-NG default setting or a custom vendor configuration, which can be provided by package maintainers.
BashStyle-NG additionally has global revert buttons at the top, which act the same way, but for all settings at once, to keep the UI in sync it is restarted after the configuration was reverted to previous saved user state or factory default settings.

Git repository access⌗

You can check the latest version via GitLab:

Git Repository

Release Downloads⌗

You can get the latest release as:

Translations⌗

Existing Translations [Translator]
- de (German) [Christopher Roy Bratušek]

Submit Bugs or Feature Requests⌗

Visit Git Issues for reporting bugs.

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

ChangeLog⌗

11.3 (20260727) "Surimi Syndicate"
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   • Fixes

        − #310: ‘randomfile’: fix syntax error preventing script
          exectuion

        − #311: bashstyle history syncronization is now properly sets up
          a separate temp file per session, part of #307 from 11.2,
          further improved.

   • New Features

        − ‘xmlpager’ now allows passing multiple files (will be shown
          successively), checks whether supplied files are accessible
          and shows the help message, if no file was passed.

   • Misc.  Changes

        − ‘Configure’ version 5.0.0, revised code.  Checking version of
          python-gi modules now works for all, not just ‘Gtk’, remove
          unused pkg-config file for BashStyle-NG. Path for gi-typelibs
          is now properly auto-detected.

        − ‘Make’ version 3.0.0, revised code, use gtk4-update-icon-cache
          in postinstall task, rather than Gtk+3 binary, now in
          postremove task aswell.

        − the ‘binary-clock’ util is now written in pure bash, rather
          than perl

        − ‘lscd’/‘treecd’ have been revised, aswell (internal function
          ‘bashstyle-cd’)

        − The following utils have been revised/modernized

             − ‘batchrename’

             − ‘box’

             − ‘camelcase’

             − ‘check’

             − ‘clock’

             − ‘ruler’

             − ‘stopwatch’

        − additonally all utils received whitespace fixes

        − update german translation

Bashstyle-NG (11.3 ‘Surimi Syndicate’)

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