[config] .oshrc + miscellany from OSH usage

[okayzed]

Does ~/.oshrc get sourced? I downloaded and installed the 0.6.pre15 release and created my ~/.oshrc file, but it doesn't get run at startup. I moved the file to ~/.config/oil/oshrc and it does get sourced properly.

I'm about to try OSH fulltime, we'll see how it goes. I'll keep updating this issue with various things I run into. so far:

1. bash completion errors (which I think you already know about and mention your local bash completion fork)
2. displays '/home/okay' instead of "~" in command prompt

[okayzed]

3. tab completion for filenames adds a large amount of space to my command prompt. When I type cd ~/<TAB>, there will be about 40 spaces added to the current command. The spaces are cosmetic, because i can still type in a valid path and change to it.

[andychu]

Hm somehow I didn't notice (2) ! Thanks for that.

For (1), here is my configuration on Ubuntu:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/How-To-Test-OSH

There are a number of steps to get it working, but it's straightforward. Basically sync my fork of bash-completion and checkout a branch.

• I changed it to ~/.config/oil/oshrc, so ~/.oshrc no longer gets sourced. I figure people can make a symlink if they don't want to type the long path.

I'm not sure what you mean by (3). That sounds like a bug that I don't see. Something like that happens on OS X. Does it happen every time?

[okayzed]

re: 3) yes, happens every time. https://gtg.kthxb.ai/~okay/40chars.ttyrec

for .oshrc: ah. I did not read the "How to Test OSH" page carefully enough. I saw .oshrc and assumed it worked, sorry! I would add a note there for other non-careful readers like myself.

[andychu]

@okayzed I fixed (2) (#246) today.

For the drawing issue in (3), are you using OSH 0.6.pre16 ? I have seen this type of thing before, but I thought I fixed it.

But there are other drawing problems I know of so it's possible it's still there.

i.e. what is osh --version ?

[okayzed]

okay@chalk:~$ osh --version
Oil version 0.6.pre16
Release Date: 2019-03-03 17:13:47+00:00
Arch: x86_64
OS: Linux
Platform: #49-Ubuntu SMP Wed Feb 6 09:33:07 UTC 2019
Compiler: GCC 7.3.0
Interpreter: OVM
Interpreter version: 2.7.13
Bytecode: bytecode-opy.zip
okay@chalk:~$

[andychu]

OK thanks, I think I need to revert back to the "basic" display which behaves more like bash. I was trying to make something nicer, but it's not easy :) One issue I discovered is that GNU readline also needs to handle SIGWINCH.

[andychu]

OK, I'm pretty sure the drawing problem was the same as #252, which is fixed with the latest release:

http://www.oilshell.org/release/0.6.pre17/

You definitely have a color prompt, and the width was calculated incorrectly, and it should now be correct.

And I documented oshrc and fixed the other bug too. Please try out the latest release and let me know what else you see. I'm sure there are more problems!

[okayzed]

great, thanks! I did a chsh, I'm a little afraid of what will happen when I reboot my machine and use OSH fulltime for every shell