1 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.

Figure 1.1: BashStyle-NG main menu

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.

Figure 1.2: Equinox prompt style in Konsole

Git repository access ¶

You can check the latest version via GitLab:

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

Translations ¶

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

Submit Bugs for Feature Requests ¶

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