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Zsh Configuration from the Ground Up

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Re: Zsh Configuration from the Ground Up

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Fish is pretty sweet. The biggest annoyance IMHO is that you have to use env to set environment variables inline to execution.

My biggest issue with fish is that it has no way of letting me kludge the last command like bash does. I have muscle memory for bash shorthands like !$ For last word of the last command I executed or !! For the whole line. It still catches me out with its sub shells too sometimes. ( () is equiv to $() in bash ) Also. No control+R Otherwise I think it's a beautiful shell and I keep using it.

> Also. No control+R

What would control+R do for you that isn't just part of the fish autocompletion?

Re: Zsh Configuration from the Ground Up

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Pretty sweet collection of zsh shortcuts and tips. Who cares if it's old, if it's still relevant? Is there something out there now that is better than zsh?

Fish is pretty sweet. The biggest annoyance IMHO is that you have to use env to set environment variables inline to execution.

Been a fan of fish mostly for its typeahead autocompletion. I do miss that it doesn't have some of the Bash features others have mentioned, but it's a feature I haven't been able to replicate in other shells yet.

Re: Zsh Configuration from the Ground Up

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Pretty sweet collection of zsh shortcuts and tips. Who cares if it's old, if it's still relevant? Is there something out there now that is better than zsh?

Shameless plug: https://elvish.io I cannot claim that it is better than zsh in every aspect yet, but it is getting there.

Super interesting! Totally worth a post in itself IMHO.

Re: Zsh Configuration from the Ground Up

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Shameless plug: https://elvish.io I cannot claim that it is better than zsh in every aspect yet, but it is getting there.

Super interesting! Totally worth a post in itself IMHO.

It was on homepage a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14698187
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