Hi scopatz, thanks for taking time to comment here. I got the feeling from the other comments here that indeed this blog post was kind of a scam.
I played with xonsh a little bit yesterday and went trough the tutorial, so far I'm pleased with it. I changed it as my default shell for the fun today, but damn, it's hard to re-educate my muscle memory. I will have to do some changes in order to make it usable:
- Customize the VI binding (I have some weird keyboard layout)
- Replace my aliases, scripts, functions, and `source` command that are [ba|z]sh specific (like ranger-cd [1]). This will be time consuming.
- Find why `ranger` takes so much time to quit.
I also have kind of a weirdo bug, but I want to be sure to understand where it's coming from before opening an Issue: It slow as hell when I try to open a terminal, and I have a warning about branch-timeout. The problem is that my home repository is not a literally a git repository. I still have some dotfiles versioned as explained in [2], but if I call `git ` commands from the home it says it's not a git repository, so I don't get why this git-related timeout.
Anyway, I will see if I try to continue right away, or if I wait a few weeks for some holidays in order to find time for the transition.
I played with xonsh a little bit yesterday and went trough the tutorial, so far I'm pleased with it. I changed it as my default shell for the fun today, but damn, it's hard to re-educate my muscle memory. I will have to do some changes in order to make it usable:
- Customize the VI binding (I have some weird keyboard layout)
- Replace my aliases, scripts, functions, and `source` command that are [ba|z]sh specific (like ranger-cd [1]). This will be time consuming.
- Find why `ranger` takes so much time to quit.
I also have kind of a weirdo bug, but I want to be sure to understand where it's coming from before opening an Issue: It slow as hell when I try to open a terminal, and I have a warning about branch-timeout. The problem is that my home repository is not a literally a git repository. I still have some dotfiles versioned as explained in [2], but if I call `git ` commands from the home it says it's not a git repository, so I don't get why this git-related timeout.
Anyway, I will see if I try to continue right away, or if I wait a few weeks for some holidays in order to find time for the transition.
Thanks for this software!
[1] https://gist.github.com/ha7ilm/37c4272b1df6fbfdb0df304642522...
[2] https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2016/02/best-way-to-sto...