Awesome Xontribs

Xonsh is a Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt. xontributions, or xontribs, are a set of tools and conventions for extending the functionality of xonsh.

Awesome list of Xonsh contributions/extensions.

Popular Links

• Official Site
• GitHub Repository
• Gitter Channel
• Xontribs@GitHub
• Xontrib Template

Core Xontribs

These modules are part of xonsh itself but need to be loaded explicitly using xontrib load

• abbrevs - Fish like command abbreviations

• bashisms - Bash-like interface extensions for xonsh.

• coreutils - Additional core utilities that are implemented in xonsh.

• fish_completions - Populate rich completions using fish shell instead of bash

• free_cwd - This will release the lock on the current directory whenever the prompt is shown.

• pdb - Simple built-in debugger.

• prompt_ret_code - show return-code from last command in prompt

• whole_word_jumping - Jumping across whole words (non-whitespace) with Ctrl+Left/Right.

• xog - This adds xog - a simple command to establish and print temporary traceback log file.

Python virtual-environment management

• vox - Python virtual environment manager for xonsh.
• autovox - A framework for automatic vox.

Tab-completions

Extends auto-completion capabilities

• apt_tabcomplete - Adds tabcomplete functionality to apt-get/apt-cache inside of xonsh.
• argcomplete - Argcomplete support to tab completion of python and xonsh scripts in xonsh.
• django - Django management command completions for Xonsh shell
• docker_tabcomplete - Adds tabcomplete functionality to docker inside of xonsh.
• jedi - Use Jedi as xonsh's python completer.
• scrapy_tabcomplete - Adds tabcomplete functionality to scrapy inside of xonsh.

Directory Navigation

• autojump - autojump support for xonsh
• back2dir - Return to the most recently used directory when starting the xonsh shell. For example, if you were in the '/work' directory when you last exited xonsh, then your next xonsh session will start in the '/work' directory, instead of your home directory.
• broot - supports broot with br alias
• cd - 'cd' to any path without escaping in xonsh shell ('cd '→'cd! ')
• hist_navigator - fish like nextd and prevd with default keybindings.
• up - The fast way to go up directories.
• z - Tracks your most used directories, based on 'frecency'.
• zoxide - Zoxide integration for xonsh.

Prompts

• powerline - Powerline for Xonsh shell

• powerline2 - Powerline for Xonsh shell forked from santagada/xontrib-powerline

• powerline3 - Powerline theme with native $PROMPT_FIELDS support.

• powerline_binding - Uses powerline to render the xonsh prompt

• prompt_bar - An elegance bar style for prompt.

• prompt_starship - Starship prompt in xonsh shell.

• prompt_vi_mode - vi-mode status formatter for xonsh prompt

Theming & Styling

• base16_shell - Change base16 shell themes
• gruvbox - A gruvbox color scheme for xonsh
• dracula - Dracula theme for xonsh.

Integrations

• distributed - The distributed parallel computing library hooks for xonsh.
• jupyter - Jupyter Notebook kernel for Xonsh
• kitty - Xonsh hooks for the Kitty terminal emulator.
• mpl - Matplotlib hooks for xonsh, including the new 'mpl' alias that displays the current figure on the screen.
• pyenv - pyenv integration for xonsh.
• homebrew - Add Homebrew's shell environment to xonsh shell on macOS/Linux
• init_ssh_agent - ssh-agent initialization
• ssh_agent - ssh-agent integration
• tcg - tcg integration.
• xo - Adds an 'xo' alias to run the exofrills text editor in the current Python interpreter session. This shaves off a bit of the startup time when running your favorite, minimal text editor.

Plugins

• autoxsh - Adds automatic execution of xonsh script files called .autoxsh when enterting a directory with cd function

• cmd_done - send notification once long-running command is finished. Adds long_cmd_duration field to $PROMPT_FIELDS.

• commands - Some useful commands/aliases to use with Xonsh shell

• default-command - Run a default command when you press return on an empty command line.

• direnv - Supports direnv.

• fzf-widgets - Adds some fzf widgets to your xonsh shell.

• gitinfo - Displays git information on entering a repository folder. Uses onefetch if available.

• history_encrypt - History backend that encrypt the xonsh shell commands history to prevent leaking sensitive data.

• histcpy - Useful aliases and shortcuts for extracting links and textfrom command output history and putting them into the clipboard.

• macro_lib - Library of the useful macros for the xonsh shell.

• onepath - When you click to a file or folder in graphical OS they will be opened in associated app.The xontrib-onepath brings the same logic for the xonsh shell. Type the filename or pathwithout preceding command and an associated action will be executed. The actions are customizable.

• output_search - Get identifiers, names, paths, URLs and words from the previous command output and use them for the next command.

• pipeliner - Let your pipe lines flow thru the Python code in xonsh.

• pyrtn - IPython like In[]/Out[] to access python return values in the current session.

• readable-traceback - Make traceback easier to see for xonsh.

• schedule - Xonsh Task Scheduling

• sh - Paste and run commands from bash, zsh, fish in xonsh shell.

• xpg - Run/plot/explain sql query for PostgreSQL.

Python virtual-environment management

• avox - Policy for autovox based on project directories

• avox_poetry - auto-activate venv as one cd into a poetry project folder. Activate .venv inside the project folder is also supported.