What's your terminal and shell setup?

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Currently using Terminator when on Ubuntu and iTerm2 on my macbook. Always with zsh + oh-my-zsh plus a handful of plugins and aliases.Curious to know what the real terminal and shell wizards are up to.Lately shell interactions have felt very slow and archaic without some kind of AI assistance now that I've become so used to having it when coding with Copilot. I've seen and tried some of the available AI shell tools but haven't liked any yet. Just typing command descriptions and waiting for the AI generated command doesn't feel like the right model. Literally just using copilot in a context where I could execute its output would probably be a better experience. If I remember correctly, when playing with Emacs there was one of the terminal options where the output and command line were in a single buffer and hitting enter on the last line would execute the command there. So I'm thinking that if there's a copilot plugin for Emacs and that terminal option, then combining the two might be pretty nice.

gregjor · Accepted Answer

Blink shell on iPad Pro, tmux, plain bash with a few aliases, vim with few plugins. No AI, no shell plugins, no junk on the screen to make it into a Christmas lights display. If your "shell interactions" feel slow try unloading some of the baggage. If you find the shell "archaic" try to reframe that as tried and tested and well-understood.
The beauty of using the command line shell comes from the simplicity of plain text and direct interaction with the tools, not from trying to create a GUI experience or polluting it with Copilot assistance.
I don't know about your setup with emacs, but both vim and bash can execute a line displayed in the terminal without adding anything to them.