Shell Integration

Tracking Environment Variables

When a Hermit environment is activated, Hermit will install a shell hook to keep your shell’s environment variables synchronized with Hermit’s environment variables as you add and remove packages. This hook executes prior to each command.

Shell Hooks

Hermit can also install shell integration hooks to provide * Automatic environment activation / deactivation of Hermit environments as you change directories in your terminal. * Shell completion for the Hermit commands and packages

Zsh

This will install Hermit hooks into your ~/.zshrc file. Restart your shell in order for the changes to take effect.

hermit shell-hooks --zsh

To enable the ZSH command completion, you also need to manually initialise the completion system. A simple example on how to do this is to add this to your ~/.zshrc file, before the Hermit hooks:

autoload -U compinit && compinit -i

See the ZSH Documentation for more information

Bash

This will install Hermit hooks into your ~/.bashrc file. Restart your shell in order for the changes to take effect.

hermit shell-hooks --bash