shellserver 0.0.2

Server to aid shell navigation

ShellServer

It's a mix of Starship and Zoxide but faster.

On Starship, every 'Enter' keystroke spawns a new process, which may cause a lag between prompts.
Zoxide will raise a new process every time you call it.
ShellServer raises the server only in the first shell creation and will communicate with your shell on every 'Enter' keystroke.

But if your hardware gives you a fluid shell experience using Starship, I recommend that you keep with it because it's way more customizable.

Features

Prompt with the fast glance on what is on directory

This is the most bloated prompt that you will get. Will indicate the existence of Python, C, C++, Lua and Node files on directory.
The compilers searched are GCC and G++.

No lag from spawing process

Better 'cd'

Note: fzf is a dependency to use 'pz'

Listing directory

CLI

The server knows how many clients it haves and will know if you quit shell with 'exit'
but if window is closed on 'X', it may outlive the shell.

usage: shellserver [-h] {kill,clear}

positional arguments:
  {kill,clear}  "kill" to kill the server, "clear" to clear the cache.

options:
  -h, --help    show this help message and exit

Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• PowerShell 5+ (I think)
• Any NerdFont (I use MesloGS NF)

Installation

Currently, ShellServer will work only in PowerShell on Windows. A few things must be changed to make it work on Linux, so make an Issue if you want to use it. There are plans to get it to Xonsh

> pip install shellserver  # or pip install --user shellserver
> Install-Module ShellServer -Scope CurrentUser

In your PowerShell profile:

# By the beginning of the file
pythonw -m shellserver  # note the 'w'

# In some pwsh versions 'ls' is an alias to Get-Children
Remove-Alias ls

#
# Other things. Must give time to bind the port
#

# By the end of the file
Import-Module ShellServer

Known Issues

• Git status brackets might give wrong values for now. ShellServer won't parse 'git status' command for it would threat performance, it deals with files directly.
• Prompt might be unstructured on small window.