Kjell

Kjell - a refurbished Erlang shell with support for color profiles and extensions.

Build status

• Main branch :
• Development branch :

Screens

Kjell (dark profile) on Solarized Dark

Kjell (light profile) on Solarized Light

Overview

See http://karlll.github.com/kjell/

Dependencies

• Erlang/OTP R16B01+
• Extension kjell-prompt: Powerline patched font (https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline-fonts)

Install

Mac: Install using Hombrew

  $ brew install kjell

Linux: Build and install

Build

  $ git clone --recursive https://github.com/karlll/kjell.git && cd kjell
  $ make

After building:

  $ make install

Install to alternate location

  $ make configure PREFIX=<alternate path>
  $ make install

Run

If installed, execute kjell in terminal, otherwise, <build_dir>/bin/kjell

Extensions

Install extensions in user directory:

  $ make install-extensions

See https://github.com/karlll/kjell-extensions for further information about extensions.

Documentation

Please see the wiki, https://github.com/karlll/kjell/wiki

Author

Karl Larsaeus, karl@ninjacontrol.com

Contributors

• Pedram Nimreezi, deadzen@deadzen.com
• Uwe Dauernheim, uwe@dauernheim.net
• Dylan MacKenzie, dylanmackenzie@gmail.com
• Julien Barbot
• Andrzej Trawiński, andrzej.trawinski@jtendo.com
• Danila Fedyaschin, danilagamma@gmail.com
• gen_ale_drinker, michael.coles@gmail.com
• Jean-Sébastien Pédron, jean-sebastien.pedron@dumbbell.fr

How to contribute

Got new features, bugfixes, extensions? Great! Please do the following:

• Clone the repo
• Check out the development branch
• Hack stuff
• Add yourself to the CONTRIBUTORs
• Submit your pull request to the development branch

If appropriate, please extend the current test suites or add new ones.