tried fish, went back to zsh

⚙️ Vdo tried fish, went back to zsh

Sijmen I'm all about ksh with PS1="$ " nowadays. Keeping it simple, minimal/no config. Same with editor, just nvi with 'set ru ai nu'

5y, 20w 3 replies

🧐 Nrmn I'm way too much in love with good completion and history search. I also use differently coloured prompts to differentiate between machines and privileges.

5y, 20w 2 replies

Sijmen I do need to learn about navigating history more efficiently. And I do cheat a bit for the things you mention: on machines I tend to remote into I add '\h' for hostname, and I use '\$' for prompt which turns into # for root

5y, 20w 1 reply

🧐 Nrmn Did you know that there's a history fuzzy search included in ZSH if you press CTRL+r? Also, someone wrote a program that enhances that with weighed results taking your current directory and recent commands into account.

5y, 20w reply

🧐 Nrmn Fish is great if you like the way it is doing things. The out-of-the-box config is really good. But I'm too much into little nitty-gritty details and so zsh it is.

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