My Shell Config On Windows For 2022

Last year I wrote an article about my shell config for 2021.

https://sonny.alvesdi.as/my-shell-config-on-windows-for-2021

I am renewing the operation this year, and to be straightforward with you

I gave up on Alacritty

Alacritty is nice, but in daily life there were a lot of frictions (that are maybe fixed by now TBH) especially for copy/pasting string into the shell. Also, IIRC no tabs or such.

So what am I using now?

I switched to Hyper! It's an electron-based terminal made by Vercel, the company that offers this platform to greatly ease the deployment of an app. I recommend Vercel and glitch.com also if you want to deploy a small or website easily.

Download link: https://hyper.is/

To make Hyper work with the usual Git Bash, I changed that line in the configuration:

        shell: 'C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe',

And to directly copy selected text to clipboard, I changed that line to true:

        copyOnSelect: true,

I didn't change much more aside the font.

New year, new font

Last year I recommended Fira Code. This year I would recommend you Monoid an open source coding font, more details there: https://larsenwork.com/monoid/

Other suggestions

If you want an easy way to install and uninstall software from the command line on Windows, check out chocolatey.org
If you use Git Bash and Docker like me, you probably want to add that line to your ~/.bashrc:
```
alias docker='MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 docker'
```
That will allow you to do things like: docker exec -ti ${CONTAINER} /bin/bash directly from Git Bash.
Also, if you use one of the latest Git Bash, there's a bug that creates troubles when you ssh into a server. Symptoms are like you can't use vi or CTRC+C will quit the entire ssh session. Add the following line in your ~/.bashrc as well, and it will fix it.
```
export MSYS=enable_pcon
```

My Shell Config On Windows For 2022

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