Shell compatibility

Jelly runs your shell, not its own. The goal is that your prompt and font look identical to Ghostty or iTerm2.

Works with fish, zsh, bash and nu, and with prompts such as starship and powerlevel10k. Nerd Fonts, ligatures and emoji render correctly, and programs such as nvim and tmux work.

Which shell starts

• By default Jelly starts your login shell, and it always starts it as a login shell.
• Choose another with shell.program and add arguments with shell.args.
• shell.env adds environment variables to every shell.

[settings.shell]
program = "/opt/homebrew/bin/fish"
env = { EDITOR = "nvim" }

Where it starts

shell.working-directory decides the starting directory of a new pane: inherit (the focused pane’s directory, the default), home, or a fixed path.

Clipboard

Programs can write to your clipboard with OSC 52 by default. Reading it is off unless you set clipboard.osc52-read = true.