Frequently Asked Questions

Is Hilbish POSIX compliant?#

No, it is not. POSIX compliance is a non-goal. Perhaps in the future, someone would be able to write a native plugin to support shell scripting (which would be against its main goal, but ….)

Windows Support?#

It compiles for Windows (CI ensures it does), but otherwise it is not directly supported. If you'd like to improve this situation, checkout the discussion .

Why?#

Hilbish emerged from the desire of a Lua configured shell. It was the initial reason that it was created, but now it's more: to be hyper extensible, simpler and more user friendly.

Does it have "autocompletion" or "tab completion"?#

Of course! This is a modern shell. Hilbish provides a way for users to write tab completion for any command and/or the whole shell. Inline hinting and syntax highlighting are also available.