BashISE (bise2)

BashISE is a local-first, package-first, safety-minded editor + project runner designed to feel like a lightweight “ISE” experience for Bash workflows on Linux.

It’s built around Trishula’s operational doctrine:

• Make work reproducible
• Make changes provable
• Keep users in control
• Avoid brittle dependencies
• Ship something you can deploy anywhere

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Releases

• Latest: v0.1.2 — https://github.com/TrishulaSoftware/BashISE/releases/tag/v0.1.2
• Checksums: see RELEASES.md

Highlights

Editor + Workspace

• Text editor with a clean, fast buffer-first workflow
• New / Open / Save / Save As
• Dirty-state tracking (knows when the buffer has unsaved changes)
• Project root concept (work rooted inside a chosen folder)
• Project tree view for browsing files and folders
• Refresh tree button (re-scan project view quickly)
• Quick Open dialog (keyboard-friendly file picker scoped to the current root)
• Find dialog for fast in-buffer search
• Project Search dialog (root-scoped search across files; designed to stay snappy)
• Problems panel for check/run feedback and jump-to style workflows (boot-safe)

Run + Check

• Run buffer (execute what’s in the editor)
• Run selection (“Run Sel”) (highlight text and run only that)
• Argument input support (Run with args)
• Check action (non-destructive checks / validation pass)
• Receipts for run actions (run.*.json) for auditability and “prove it” workflows

Evidence + Audit Artifacts (Armory)

• Evidence Pack export
  • portable tar.gz bundles of receipts / logs / config / hashes
  • built for sharing, archiving, and forensic replay
• Receipt-first mindset
  • operations emit structured artifacts to disk
  • UTC-stamped receipts for correlation across machines
• Armory bootstrap selftest
  • validates packaging integrity and key invariants
  • verifies compile-safety and environment readiness
  • confirms tkinter is available but not imported during selftest (tkinter_imported: False)
• Backups doctrine for critical ops
  • backups stored under a consistent root in your home directory
  • integrity proof (size + SHA256) recorded in receipts

Safety Guardrails

• Deny-list roots (prevents operating on risky system locations by default)
• Root-scoped operations (project actions stay inside the chosen root)
• Non-sudo install + runtime isolation
  • installs into a per-user runtime venv
  • avoids breaking system Python
• Compile gate philosophy
  • packaging changes are compile-checked before shipping

UI + UX Details

• Small-screen / older laptop friendly
  • top toolbar is horizontally scrollable when it overflows
  • prevents “buttons cut off with no access”
• Keyboard-first workflows
  • quick open (Ctrl+P style)
  • project search (Ctrl+Shift+F style)
  • run (F5 style)
  • run selection (Ctrl+Enter style)
  • check (F6 style) (Bindings depend on the current canon build.)
• Terminal launcher button (“Terminal”) to open a shell at the current location

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Install (No sudo)

Option A — Release tarball (recommended)

1. Download/extract the release tarball
2. Run:

Support

If BashISE saves you time, consider supporting the project:

• GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/TrishulaSoftware
• Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/trishulasoftware
• Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/trishulasoftware
• Open Collective: https://opencollective.com/trishula-software
• Patreon (monetized later): https://patreon.com/TrishulaSoftware

bash ./<release-folder>/install.sh ./<release-folder>/artifacts/bise2-*.whl
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