Hilbish/README.md

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Hilbish is a Unix-y shell which uses Lua for scripting. Things like the prompt,
general configuration and such are done with Lua.

For interactive use, it uses a library to run sh which works on all
platforms Hilbish can be compiled for. It can also act as a Lua REPL if you want
it to be.

# Screenshots
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# Installation
**NOTE:** Hilbish is currently only officially supported and tested on Linux

### Prebuilt binaries
Binaries are provided for the latest commit.  

**Note that these use Hilbiline, not readline, and may be missing functionality
(moving the cursor, proper unicode support and backspace working properly)**  

Click on the checkmark (or x) near the commit hash, then details for your platform  
<br><img src="https://modeus.is-inside.me/dyr8UGGq.png"><br>

Then click on the artifacts drop down, and download artifact for your platform,
like what is highlighted in the screenshot.  
<br><img src="https://modeus.is-inside.me/KJ0Puceb.png"><br>

### AUR
![AUR maintainer](https://img.shields.io/aur/maintainer/hilbish?logo=arch-linux&style=flat-square)  
Arch Linux users can install Hilbish from the AUR with the following command:  
```sh
yay -S hilbish
```
Or from the latest `master` commit with:  
```sh
yay -S hilbish-git
```

### Nixpkgs
Nix/NixOS users can install Hilbish from the central repository, nixpkgs, through the usual ways.

If you're new to nix you should probably read up on how to do that [here](https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Cheatsheet).

### Manual Build
#### Prerequisites
- [Go 1.16+](https://go.dev)
- GNU Readline

On Fedora or other RPM based distros, readline can be installed with:  
```
sudo dnf install readline-devel
```  

On Debian/Ubuntu and distros based on them, it can be installed with:  
```
sudo apt install libreadline-dev
```

On Arch Linux, it can be installed with:
```
sudo pacman -S readline
```

#### Build
First, clone Hilbish:
```sh
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Rosettea/Hilbish
cd Hilbish
go get -d ./...
```  

To build, run:
```
make dev
```  

Or, if you want a stable branch, run these commands:
```
git checkout $(git describe --tags `git rev-list --tags --max-count=1`)
make build
```  

After you did all that, run `sudo make install` to install Hilbish globally.

# Contributing
Any kind of contributions to Hilbish are welcome!
Read [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) before getting started.

**Thanks to everyone below who's contributed!**  
<a href="https://github.com/Hilbis/Hilbish/graphs/contributors">
  <img src="https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=Hilbis/Hilbish" />
</a>

*Made with [contributors-img](https://contrib.rocks).*

# License
Hilbish is licensed under the [MIT license](LICENSE).  
[Images and assets](assets/) are licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0