Posts tagged terminal
Hacking Your Zsh Terminal with Custom Widgets
- 28 October 2026
Blog Post Publish Date: 2026/10/28
This blog post explains how to create custom Zsh widgets by registering shell functions to keyboard shortcuts powered by the Zsh Line Editor (ZLE).
Hacking Your Bash Terminal with Custom Widgets
- 25 October 2026
Blog Post Publish Date: 2026/10/25
This blog post is an extension of GNU Readline: The Magic Behind Terminal Autocomplete. Here, I explain how to create custom Bash widgets by registering Bash functions to keyboard shortcuts powered by the GNU Readline library.
GNU Readline: The Magic Behind Terminal Autocomplete
- 18 October 2026
Blog Post Publish Date: 2026/10/18
This blog post explains what GNU Readline is and how it powers the line editing, history navigation, and auto-completion you use every day in the terminal. I will also show the one configuration I reach for the most: making the Up and Down arrows search your command history by prefix. It is a small change that saved me a lot of keystrokes.