Does anybody know a shell that keeps its input line on <i>top</i> of the window?<p>Think of a browser window with the url-bar being the shell line editor. But of course I want a real, quick shell, not a clunky electron-based monster or some html based shell simulation in a browser.<p>I imagine that it will have a positive effect on our neck muscles if we would not have to stare at the bottom of the screen all the time, but instead at the top.<p>I looked into the existing pythonic shell libraries like the python-prompt-toolkit but could not figure out in a few minutes how this could be realized, so I hope some experts in this field would like to spend a few minutes on this?<p>Thanks for your attention!
No zsh? I've attempted to try zsh a couple of times, but both times I was daunted by the sheer number of config questions asked by the set-up tool (may have been Oh-My-Zsh, can't remember), questions to which my only answer could be "I don't know, the first one I guess?"<p>I was hoping to find some good reasons why I should (or shouldn't) use it over bash.
Personally, I like using NetBSD's Almquist Shell, which formed the basis of Dash. It is small and has the command line editing and tab completion features that I can't live without.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almquist_shell" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almquist_shell</a>