Allow overriding the default shell on Windows
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
On Unix, I can chsh the default shell to my preferred shell and Hyper will honor that.
On Windows, there's no way to configure a default shell, as far as I can tell. I've tried overriding the COMSPEC variable, but that has no effect on Hyper.
I'd like not to have to configure the default shell in the configuration file as I'd like to re-use the same configuration file that I use on other platforms.
Describe the solution you'd like
Ideally, the user could configure something in the environment to change the default shell (e.g. DEFAULT_SHELL=%userprofile%/.local/bin/myshell.exe), and Hyper would honor that.
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No files, tests, or entry points are identified in the issue. Start by locating Hyper's Windows shell initialization and compare it with the Unix default-shell handling; done means an environment setting such as DEFAULT_SHELL can select the Windows shell while the shared configuration remains unchanged.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell, typescript
- Domain
- cli, desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100