A collection of useful tools for CLI

Terminal

Alacritty

Config

Alacritty looks for configuration files in:

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty/alacritty.toml
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/alacritty.toml
$HOME/.config/alacritty/alacritty.toml # Recommended
$HOME/.alacritty.toml

Warp

Kitty

Install (Linux/Mac)
```
curl -L https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/installer.sh | sh /dev/stdin
```
kitty will be install to
- /Applications/kitty.app on Mac
- ~/.local/kitty.app on Linux

Add icon for kitty to taskbar on Linux

# Create symbolic links to add kitty and kitten to PATH (assuming ~/.local/bin is in your system-wide PATH)
ln -sf ~/.local/kitty.app/bin/kitty ~/.local/kitty.app/bin/kitten ~/.local/bin/

# Place the kitty.desktop file somewhere it can be found by the OS
cp ~/.local/kitty.app/share/applications/kitty.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

# If you want to open text files and images in kitty via your file manager also add the kitty-open.desktop file
cp ~/.local/kitty.app/share/applications/kitty-open.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/

# Update the paths to the kitty and its icon in the kitty desktop file(s)
sed -i "s|Icon=kitty|Icon=/home/$USER/.local/kitty.app/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/kitty.png|g" ~/.local/share/applications/kitty*.desktop
sed -i "s|Exec=kitty|Exec=/home/$USER/.local/kitty.app/bin/kitty|g" ~/.local/share/applications/kitty*.desktop

Change default icon to kitty-icon dark

# Fedora
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DinkDonk/kitty-icon/main/kitty-dark.png -o ~/.local/kitty.app/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/kitty.png
gtk-update-icon-cache -f -t ~/.local/kitty.app/share/icons/hicolor

For more information, see Install kitty

Shortcuts

Action	Keyboard Shortcut
Create a new tab	`Ctrl + Shift + T`
Create a new window	`Ctrl + Shift + Enter`
Change layout	`Ctrl + Shift + L`
Close window	`Ctrl + Shift + W`
Next window	`ctrl + shift + ]`
Previous window	`ctrl + shift + [`

For more information, see:

Shell

bash

zsh

oh-my-zsh: Framework for Zsh, comes with plugins, themes, functions, helpers

Antidote: zsh plugin manager (successor of `Antibody` - successor of `Antigen`) - Cure to slow zsh loading time

Completion, suggestions & syntax highlight for zsh

Completions (for a command)
- argc-completions
- zsh-users/zsh-completions ?
Suggestions (from history)
- zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
Syntax highlight

fish

Shell Plugins

argc-completions

Argc-completions: Completions for any shell. Supports 1000+ commands. Automatically generate completion definition from help text and man page.

fzf: A command-line fuzzy finder

fzf

Key bindings for command-line¹:
- CTRL-T - Get a list of files and directories
- CTRL-R - Get a list of command history
- ALT-C - Get a list of directories
Fuzzy Complete for files/directories²:
- **<TAB>: COMMAND [DIRECTORY/][FUZZY_PATTERN]**<TAB>