💙 enjoy-life

A tiny shell plugin that shows a random reason to enjoy life every time you open a new terminal.

Available for Fish, Zsh, Bash and PowerShell.

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Fish

Install with Fisher

fisher install paulrobu/enjoy-life

Uninstall

fisher remove paulrobu/enjoy-life

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Zsh

Install with zinit

zinit light paulrobu/enjoy-life

Install with antidote

Add to your .zsh_plugins.txt:

paulrobu/enjoy-life

Install with Oh My Zsh

git clone https://github.com/paulrobu/enjoy-life \
  ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/enjoy-life

Then add enjoy-life to the plugins=(...) list in your ~/.zshrc.

Uninstall

Remove the plugin from your plugin manager, or remove the source line from ~/.zshrc.

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Bash

Install

git clone https://github.com/paulrobu/enjoy-life ~/.enjoy-life
echo 'source ~/.enjoy-life/enjoy-life.bash' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Install with bash-it

cp ~/.enjoy-life/enjoy-life.bash \
  ~/.bash_it/plugins/available/enjoy-life.plugin.bash
bash-it enable plugin enjoy-life

Uninstall

Remove the source line from ~/.bashrc, or disable via your plugin manager.

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PowerShell

Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux (PowerShell 5.1+).

Install

git clone https://github.com/paulrobu/enjoy-life "$HOME/.enjoy-life"

Then add this line to your PowerShell profile ($PROFILE):

. "$HOME/.enjoy-life/enjoy-life.ps1"

To open your profile for editing:

notepad $PROFILE        # Windows
code $PROFILE           # VS Code (any platform)

If your profile doesn't exist yet, create it first:

New-Item -ItemType File -Path $PROFILE -Force

Uninstall

Remove the . "$HOME/.enjoy-life/enjoy-life.ps1" line from your $PROFILE.

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Preview

💙 See a sunset that sets the sky on fire
💙 Looking back on this moment in 10 years and knowing you made it

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Contributing

Adding or editing reasons

All reasons live in a single file: reasons.txt — one reason per line, blank lines and # comments are ignored.

After editing, regenerate all shell files by running:

./build.sh

This overwrites conf.d/enjoy_life.fish, enjoy-life.plugin.zsh, enjoy-life.bash, and enjoy-life.ps1 from reasons.txt. Never edit those files directly — your changes will be lost on the next build.

PRs welcome — new reasons, new shells, bug fixes.