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   Solène :flan_hacker: (solene@bsd.network)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 04:21:34 JST Solène :flan_hacker:

   I never paid attention to it, but I guess it's been now 3 or 4 years I'm daily using the shell fish.

   It came naturally, and I came to love it. I'm using it vanilla (no plugin, no extra config), it just works in all situations I need.

   And the best thing with fish, it saves my fingers.

   Most of the time, it just guess right / knows what I want to type, so I don't have to type.

   This is possible with the history, based on:

   - frequency the command is typed
   - from which directory a command is typed (I usually type the same commands in the according directories)
   - can easily complete filenames based on a fuzzy search (if I want to match something_super_long_to_type, I can just type lon and press tab to complete)

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     Solène :flan_hacker: (solene@bsd.network)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 23:15:06 JST Solène :flan_hacker:

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     • Joel Carnat ♑ 🤪 :runbsd:

     @joel the syntax is not POSIX so you would need to learn something new :P

     With keybindings, you can edit the command line in an editor, open a file at the path where the cursor is, list the files on the path where the cursor is

     The history is great, you can query it, delete stuff from it using regex. It has more information than the command itself as it needs to know the frequency and where you ran the command to make the command predictions good

     It supports multiple VCS out of the box, same for command completion most of the time.

     I'd say, try it if you want to know more. Maybe do not make it your default shell as it may be too brutal.

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     Joel Carnat ♑ 🤪 :runbsd: (joel@piou.foolbazar.eu)'s status on Saturday, 16-Nov-2024 23:15:08 JST Joel Carnat ♑ 🤪 :runbsd:

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     @solene I never used it. Because I never felt the need for it and, honestly, because of the "erf, yet another shell" mind set :) I used to try zsh once but went back to ksh|bash.

     How would it compare to ksh or bash with autocompletion set up? Are there other specific great features?

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     Solène :flan_hacker: (solene@bsd.network)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 17:48:59 JST Solène :flan_hacker:

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     • Joseph

     @recourse try it to make your own opinion :)

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     Joseph (recourse@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 17:49:00 JST Joseph

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     @solene I've been using zsh for around the same time frame.. Should I migrate to fish??