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ObsidianZedreply
lemmy.world

That's what I currently use but I've tested fsh a little and was potentially looking to move. I just have to pull the trigger and see if I regret it or not.

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Victorreply
lemmy.world

I went from bash to zsh to fish.

  1. I understood bash. Manual is good, searchable, understandable.
  2. I never understood zsh. Manual is split up in several different man pages, very annoying to find what you're looking for. I never ever understood what I was doing, config wise. Just blindly following convoluted how-to's.
  3. With fish, I finally understand every aspect of my shell again, and it's like 10x simpler than bash. Can be learned completely within 30 minutes or so.

Highly recommend the switch.

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Victorreply
lemmy.world

Fish isn't POSIX...

That said, I tried nushell a couple times and it's pretty cool. Just a big hurdle for right now.

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chrash0reply
lemmy.world

yeah, but they did reverse course on ; and vs && to be more POSIX compatible, which is a decision i understand but don’t agree with

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Victorreply
lemmy.world

Hmm, where did you hear that? I'm reading the manual through relevant parts but I can't find anything regarding those combiners and POSIX compliancy.

Do you have a link perhaps?

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Victorreply
lemmy.world

Love the pragmatic discourse in that issue. The suggestion is also really well formulated. Bravo to everyone involved.

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hisao
ani.social

Fish looks cool, but I decided to settle on ble.sh for compatibility reasons. This one deserves some attention too. For me the main motivation was history-based autocomplete.

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dgdftreply
lemmy.world

Blesh adds a lot of functionality that makes bash feel + act like a fancier neoshell, while keeping the same syntax. Also includes a pre-exec hook, which vanilla bash notably lacks.

Highly recommend.

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hisaoreply
ani.social

Yes, but "command line editor" is a confusing term. For me it's "get features of a fancy shell in pure bash".

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Olap
lemmy.world

Oh-my-bash. All of the upsides. None of the down

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Victorreply
lemmy.world

Fish, so much simplicity you can keep the entire language in your head while scripting.

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