Maintenance 2025: maintenance, ideas and improvements

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Install improvements

• [ ] Consider replacing OMZ with something more light
• Add lite build mode. Can use --promptBool.
• Add gui build mode. Can use --promptBool.
• [ ] Consider private/office mode. Can use --promptBool

Improvements

• [ ] Consider switching to Zinit
• [ ] Consider changing shell prompt to cross-platform version Starship. Or powerlevel10k.
• Add PowerShell setup.

Pipeline

• Add readme indicator for passed tests.
• Add MacOS pipeline (if possible).
• Add PowerShell pipeline support (if possible).
• Test MacOS pipeline.
• Test Windows PS pipeline.
• Expand pipelines where possible with idempotency checking.
• Add lite pipeline test

Changes to setup

• VSCode now being the main editor. Update README to reflect this. Consider removing ST4.
• Add Sublime Merge to default setup for Ubuntu 2X.04, Windows, and Mac.

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• Add zoxide as a better cd command.
  Windows: Install via scoop install zoxide and add Invoke-Expression (& { (zoxide init powershell | Out-String) }) to end of PS profile.

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• ensure windows setup works in sandbox mode.

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Due to scoop bug on PS, we skip windows pipeline verification, and instead rely on local windows sandbox test.

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• Use setup in Rocky8 as baseline for lite mode.

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• Update PS profile with:

# Initialize oh-my-posh and PSFzf options
$env:POSH_GIT_ENABLED = $true
oh-my-posh init pwsh --config "$env:POSH_THEMES_PATH\wopian.omp.json" | Invoke-Expression
Import-Module posh-git

# Tab shows list of files instead of cycling through files
Import-Module PSReadLine
Set-PSReadLineOption -EditMode Vi
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function Complete

# Enabling ctrl+r as backward fuzzy search
Set-PsFzfOption -PSReadlineChordProvider 'Ctrl+t' -PSReadlineChordReverseHistory 'Ctrl+r'

# Autosuggestions (similar to zsh plugins). NOTE: requires modern PS
Set-PSReadLineOption -PredictionSource HistoryAndPlugin
Set-PSReadLineOption -PredictionViewStyle ListView

# Delete the next word (forward kill) with Alt+d
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Alt+d -Function KillWord

# Delete the previous word (backward kill) with Ctrl+w
Set-PSReadLineKeyHandler -Key Ctrl+w -Function BackwardDeleteWord