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title: Getting Started
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layout: doc
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weight: -10
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---
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To start Hilbish, open a terminal. If Hilbish has been installed and is not the
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default shell, you can simply run `hilbish` to start it. This will launch
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a normal interactive session.
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To exit, you can either run the `exit` command or hit Ctrl+D.
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# Setting as Default
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## Login shell
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There are a few ways to make Hilbish your default shell. A simple way is
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to make it your user/login shell.
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{{< warning `It is not recommended to set Hilbish as your login shell. That is expected to be a
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POSIX compliant shell, which Hilbish is not. At most, there will just be a
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few variables missing in your environment` >}}
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To do that, simply run `chsh -s /usr/bin/hilbish`.
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Some distros (namely Fedora) might have `lchsh` instead, which is used like `lchsh <user>`.
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When prompted, you can put the path for Hilbish.
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## Default with terminal
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The simpler way is to set the default shell for your terminal. The way of
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doing this depends on how your terminal settings are configured.
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## Run after login shell
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Some shells (like zsh) have an rc file, like `.zlogin`, which is ran when the shell session
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is a login shell. In that file, you can run Hilbish. Example:
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```
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exec hilbish -S -l
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```
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This will replace the shell with Hilbish, set $SHELL to Hilbish and launch it as a login shell.
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# Configuration
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Once installation and setup has been done, you can then configure Hilbish.
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It is configured and scripted via Lua, so the config file is a Lua file.
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You can use any pure Lua library to do whatever you want.
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Hilbish's sample configuration is usually located in `hilbish.dataDir .. '/.hilbishrc.lua'`.
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You can print that path via Lua to see what it is: `print(hilbish.dataDir .. '/.hilbishrc.lua')`.
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As an example, it will usually will result in `/usr/share/hilbish/.hilbishrc.lua` on Linux.
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To edit your user configuration, you can copy that file to `hilbish.userDir.config .. '/hilbish/init.lua'`,
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which follows XDG on Linux and MacOS, and is located in %APPDATA% on Windows.
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As the directory is usually `~/.config` on Linux, you can run this command to copy it:
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`cp /usr/share/hilbish/.hilbishrc.lua ~/.config/hilbish/init.lua`
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Now you can get to editing it. Since it's just a Lua file, having basic
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knowledge of Lua would help. All of Lua's standard libraries and functions
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from Lua 5.4 are available. Hilbish has some custom and modules that are
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available. To see them, you can run the `doc` command. This also works as
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general documentation for other things.
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