akinomyoga/ble.sh

Health v2 · maintenance only

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4649 stars · 142 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

ble.sh (Bash Line Editor) is a line editor written in pure Bash that replaces GNU Readline in interactive Bash sessions. It provides syntax highlighting, auto suggestions, enhanced auto-completion, and vim modes for the Bash command line.

Use cases

• add syntax highlighting to my bash shell
• fish-like auto suggestions in bash
• enable vim mode in bash interactive shell
• replace readline with a better bash line editor
• improve bash tab completion
• customize my bashrc with a better prompt editor

When to choose

• you use Bash interactively and want fish-like features such as syntax highlighting and auto suggestions
• you want vim editing modes or richer completion in Bash without switching shells
• you need a pure-Bash solution with no compiled binaries

When to avoid

• you use zsh or fish rather than Bash
• you only need non-interactive scripting enhancements
• you cannot tolerate any shell startup latency from loading a large script

Facets

library · maturity active

cli developer-tools editor developer-tools bsd cross-platform cli bash line-editor readline-replacement syntax-highlighting auto-suggestions vim-mode autocomplete shell command-line linux macos

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