Plain bash

[raffaem]

README says that atuin works best with ble.sh.

I don't understand if it is supposed to work in plain bash (without ble.sh and without preempt) with less features or if it is not supposed to work with plain bash at all.

[ellie]

Bash does not support all the features that Atuin (and a great many other tools) needs. No shell hooks, no line editor we can hook into, etc.

Without blesh, we have bash pre-exec + a bunch of our own scripting to try and make it work regardless. There may occasionally be artifacts/small issues, but nothing major, and all depending on what your prompt is, what your setup is, etc.

With ble.sh, Atuin needs less of our own workarounds as ble.sh handles much of what we need.

You must use EITHER bash-preexec, or blesh.

[raffaem]

Atuin works in bash, but only when combined either with ble.sh >= 0.4 or with bash-preexec (version?).
Altough it might work with bash >= 3, we recommend bash >= 5. We also recommend ble.sh over bash-preexec.

Would that work?

[akinomyoga]

Yes!

I think it's hard to specify the bash-preexec version. Bash-preexec supported the necessary feature from the beginning (as it's the bash-preexec's purpose), but it's imperfect from the beginning yet gradually improved. I'd say the latest version of bash-preexec.

[akinomyoga]

@raffaem I won't submit a PR of your suggestion. If you want it to be in the documentation, could you submit a PR?

[raffaem]

Uhm current version looks good to me: "Atuin works in bash >= 3.1 when combined with either ble.sh or bash-preexec"

[akinomyoga]

OK! Thanks for your reply!