# 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: 
```json
        shell: 'C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe',
```
And to directly copy selected text to clipboard, I changed that line to `true`:
```json
        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`: 
  ```bash
  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.
  ```bash
  export MSYS=enable_pcon
  ```