Are there instructions to use atuin with alternative shells ? (xonsh)

[StitiFatah]

Hey,

Have been using atuin with zsh for a couple of months, I must say it's a very convenient piece of software, thanks for that, I'm now trying out the xonsh shell and was wondering if there were generic instructions for shells that don't have an atuin init $SHELL

Thanks in advance

[rirze]

Looking for something similar with ion-shell

[ellie]

Hey! There are not, as it varies significantly by shell + depends on the hooks available. If we had instructions, we would just implement the shell plugin and include it

[rirze]

Are there any guidelines? I'd love to open a PR with support if there was some documentation for what needs to be minimally implemented.

[arcuru]

The best way to understand what's necessary would be to look at the most recent shell support PR, #788

New shells are implemented by writing an import module to convert the existing history from the shell, see the others here.

And writing shell hooks scripts, existing ones here. These scripts are what atuin uses for atuin init <shell>. Not all shells support the hooks necessary for atuin though. nushell, for example, didn't support the necessary hooks and actually needed them added before atuin could be supported.

Looking at their docs I don't think ion-shell supports any hooks at all, which means it's not possible to integrate with atuin.

I was confused by the xonsh docs, so I can't tell if that supports hooks. You'd need to ask them.

[Matthieu-LAURENT39]

Did this ever get implemented? Looking into using atuin with xonsh as well

[arcuru]

Nothing has been done in Atuin.

Taking a second look, this can definitely be implemented using Events in xonsh: https://xon.sh/tutorial_events.html. They do support the necessary hooks that Atuin would need, on_precommand() and on_postcommand().

If you're familiar with xonsh I expect it would be fairly easy if you'd like to implement it. I've been trying out some different shells lately and had been meaning to checkout xonsh, so I may get to it myself at some point.

[Matthieu-LAURENT39]

I was thinking of implementing it, i just wanted to check if it was done already to not reinvent the wheel. I'll try to make a PR this weekend.

[arcuru]

Awesome! If you have any questions, the Atuin discord is fairly active and would be happy to help from the Atuin side :)

[anki-code]

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