🐚 Rit's Xonsh-RC

If you like my xonsh-rc file, click the ⭐ on the repo.

Hello 👋🏽

I've been a xonsh user for nearly 3 years now and have developed my .xonshrc file and setup over that time, adding various tweaks and quirks.

As I started to optimize, I realized my setup is a bit jank and hard to replicate which led me to xontrib-rc-awesome.

Setup

Generally, I follow these steps when setting up xonsh (and my python).

I use brew as my MacOS package manager and pyenv to help manage my multitude of python versions.

Note: I want to explore the rtx project as an alternative, but haven't gotten around to it yet!

brew install pyenv

pyenv install <latest-python>
pyenv global <latest-python>

I use pipx to help manage my python tools and apps!

brew install pipx

pipx install poetry
pipx install "xonsh[full]"

Lastly, I change my favorite terminals to use my xonsh executable on start-up! I use xpip to help install more things into my xonsh environment. Note pipx inject xonsh <deps> works as well.

Other dependencies..

brew install rtx
brew install starship
brew install zoxide

Finally, to load my rc:

xpip install -U "git+https://github.com/RitikShah/xonsh-rc"
echo 'xontrib load rc_yourname' >> ~/.xonshrc
xonsh  # or close and reopen

🎉 Welcome to xonsh 🎉

Structure

My entrypoint is rc.xsh, which I try to keep as light as possible.

I then source everything within my mods folder kinda like an extension. These are loaded async which means my prompt may load before every extension is loaded!

FAQ

What is xonsh?

Xonsh is a python-bash hybrid shell-alternative. It is python-based with a warm and friendly community, with lots to explore.

Why do I use xonsh?

Xonsh lets me use my shell with my most comfortable language, Python. Rather than stumbling through bash commands, I can confidently write python to fufill my daily shell needs. I also can tinker and add fancy or useful new features in python as well, which lets me personalize my execution environment.

If you have heard of unix or android ricing, xonsh is my form of "shell ricing"

But my shell is cool too!

It probably is and also could have cooler features than mine. This is just the shell I use!

I'm curious, but what's the catch?

In Python-land, speed is no fair maiden.

Xonsh does startup a bit slower than your favorite shell. While, this is due to using python, it's also due to the amount of bloat we casually add to our rc-files (which is not exclusive to xonsh).

The slowdown isn't that determintal to my workflow and once loaded, you feel no different 🙂.

Xonsh also isn't purely bash-compatible, even much less so than zsh and fish. While I do think 100% bash-compatibility isn't that useful in my daily shell, it might be for you.