setting up xonsh to run by default?

[Brandon Marzolf]

I just found out about xonsh last night because I follow r/linuxmasterrace and this meme came up

..and I was curious about xonsh all of a suddon. Watched the presentation from pycon 2016 and then i installed it. Been playing with it all morning. The big draw, other than the python nativeness and ease of settings is that it's supposed to be cross platform. I use Linux at home, but must use windows at work.

First question is on Linux, how to load xonsh as the default shell. I'm so used to bash just loading by default.

Second, how do I go about setting the same thing up on windows?

[Gil Forsyth]

Hey Brandon,

That meme is hilarious, thanks for forwarding it. 

On Linux, you first have to add the full path to wherever xonsh is installed to your `/etc/shells` file.

Then you can use the `chsh` command to change your default shell to xonsh.

Re: Windows, others may be able to chime in, but I think you'll need to install a new terminal emulator.  I know that melund, one of our windows devs, uses cmder or conemu and likes that.  There's some info in our docs about windows setup that can hopefully get you started in the right direction: http://xon.sh/windows.html

-Gil

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[Brandon Marzolf]

I used pip to install xonsh, it looks like it put it in my anaconda/bin folder in my home directory. In anaconda/bin there is a xonsh and a xon.sh. I have tried using both of those as a defualt shell through chsh -s /home/brandon/anaconda/bin/xonsh and then i tried /xon.sh and both gave me the error "not a valid login shell". So where is the real xonsh? Why can't it just be in /bin/xonsh like the rest of the shells?

On Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 10:28:15 AM UTC-4, Gil Forsyth wrote:

Hey Brandon,

That meme is hilarious, thanks for forwarding it. 

On Linux, you first have to add the full path to wherever xonsh is installed to your `/etc/shells` file.

Then you can use the `chsh` command to change your default shell to xonsh.

Re: Windows, others may be able to chime in, but I think you'll need to install a new terminal emulator.  I know that melund, one of our windows devs, uses cmder or conemu and likes that.  There's some info in our docs about windows setup that can hopefully get you started in the right direction: http://xon.sh/windows.html

-Gil

On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Brandon Marzolf <brandon...@gmail.com> wrote:

I just found out about xonsh last night because I follow r/linuxmasterrace and this meme came up

..and I was curious about xonsh all of a suddon. Watched the presentation from pycon 2016 and then i installed it. Been playing with it all morning. The big draw, other than the python nativeness and ease of settings is that it's supposed to be cross platform. I use Linux at home, but must use windows at work.

First question is on Linux, how to load xonsh as the default shell. I'm so used to bash just loading by default.

Second, how do I go about setting the same thing up on windows?

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[Gil Forsyth]

Hi Brandon,

So the full path to the executable also needs to be in `/etc/shells` before `chsh` will allow you to change to it.  For your anaconda install, that would mean that
`/home/brandon/anaconda/bin/xonsh` should be in `/etc/shells/`

You can also certainly create a symlink to `xonsh` to `/bin/xonsh` -- you would then have to add the path to the symlink to `/etc/shells` before `chsh` will work

I hope that helps!

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[Brandon Marzolf]

Ha, yeah now I feel silly, just had a typo...

So another question if I may, how do I get the tab-complete function to be case-insensitive?

[Gil Forsyth]

Hi Brandon, 

Glad that's sorted. For case insensitive completions set 

$CASE_SENSITIVE_COMPLETIONS=False

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[Anthony Scopatz]

Hi Brandon,

Thanks for the image!  Also, to add to Gil's comment, here is the link to the docs: http://xon.sh/envvars.html#case-sensitive-completions

Be Well

Anthony

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[Brandon Marzolf]

Thank you, that was quite helpful!