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I've been using Fish instead and it's much much simpler than configuring ZSH to my liking. It's already good out of the box, without having to carry around any kind of configuration. The only stuff I usually do is to setup `powerline-go` as prompt, and voilà, that's pretty much it.
My favorite alias, which is not really a zsh exclusive thing, is combining cd && ls : cl() { cd "$@" && ls; } It's wonderfully simple and saves me so much time by giving me an instant refresher of what's in the directory I just changed to.
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This is always my complaint about posts like this. I read them looking for the killer feature to make me consider switching from bash and it's always stuff bash does natively or with a one line alias.
If the dizzying assortment of shell parameter expansion features (see man zshexpn), isn't enough to convince you, then the cause is lost.
The features need to be able to do useful things better somehow, and that's where articles demoing such applications come in.
"Better" also doesn't necessarily mean "more concise," otherwise APL would be one of the best programming languages. A language with a smaller number of accessible, comprehensible, memorable features can prove more useful in practice than one with a "dizzying assortment" that's hard to remember, difficult to read, etc.
I've been using Fish instead and it's much much simpler than configuring ZSH to my liking. It's already good out of the box, without having to carry around any kind of configuration. The only stuff I usually do is to setup `powerline-go` as prompt, and voilà, that's pretty much it.
The main drawback for fish is that is not compatible with bash scripting. If you need help with something specific, you can throw out almost all help available online.
A lot of these can be easily done in Bash, too! 1. `mkcdir () { mkdir -- "$1" && cd -- "$1"; }` 2a. `bind '"\e[A":history-search-backward'; bind '"\e[B":history-search-forward'` 2b. Default behavior for Bash. 3. `shopt -s autocd` 4. `mmv`, `perl-rename` 5. `qalc` from libqalculate: https://github.com/Qalculate/libqalculate 8. Default behavior for Bash. 9. Default behavior for Bash.
This is a shortcut which basically prefixes the current line with '#' comment character and then simulates hitting Enter (pushing the commented-out line into history buffer).
I've been using Fish instead and it's much much simpler than configuring ZSH to my liking. It's already good out of the box, without having to carry around any kind of configuration. The only stuff I usually do is to setup `powerline-go` as prompt, and voilà, that's pretty much it.
My company is fond of putting source code under very deep directory structures, so I quite like Z: https://github.com/agkozak/zsh-z Not ZSH specific, but it's also handy to load project-specific environment variables automatically on entering directories: https://direnv.net/ .
A lot of these can be easily done in Bash, too! 1. `mkcdir () { mkdir -- "$1" && cd -- "$1"; }` 2a. `bind '"\e[A":history-search-backward'; bind '"\e[B":history-search-forward'` 2b. Default behavior for Bash. 3. `shopt -s autocd` 4. `mmv`, `perl-rename` 5. `qalc` from libqalculate: https://github.com/Qalculate/libqalculate 8. Default behavior for Bash. 9. Default behavior for Bash.
This is always my complaint about posts like this. I read them looking for the killer feature to make me consider switching from bash and it's always stuff bash does natively or with a one line alias.
auto_pushd
Global aliases (interpolated anywhere in the commandline)
alias -g G='| grep -i'
cat file G something
/some/long/path $ export X=`pwd`
~X $