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can zsh autocomplete man pages?
Yes it can. Add something like this to your zsh config: zstyle ':completion:*:manuals' separate-sections true zstyle ':completion:*:manuals.*' insert-sections true zstyle ':completion:*:man:*' menu yes select
Man, I used to use fish. It was great. It was like all the things people eventually make zsh do but in one convenient binary. I think my favorite feature was that history was instantly shared among all your open fish instances.
Oftentimes my execution lines are somewhat long -- enabling/disable debugging info in certain sections of the program while tracing programs, etc, and I'd not want to type them out continuously. As a result I'd use the command history a lot, muscle memory would automatically hit CTRL-P once I switched to one of my execution terminals. If I'd visited something in the documentation terminal in the meantime, I'd be staring at 'man 2 timer_create' instead of my expected './aesalon --set listen=6421 --set ::debug-shm --set ::debug-interaction'. The third-second or so I'd need to do a sanity check would seriously interrupt my train of thought.
It's neat, and I can see why people like it. But for my particular one use-case of terminals/shells, it was annoying. Took me about a week before I realized just how much it was slowing me down and disabled it.
[I probably should have just set up another zsh configuration for those particular terminals, but enough years with bash have trained me, I guess, to not expect it from my shell.]
'cutting edge technology called threads' oh wow
'cutting edge technology called threads' oh wow
I'm sure you know that that's a joke ... ?
'cutting edge technology called threads' oh wow
batman@batman ~/D/S/rails> alias foo="cd ~/"
fish: Could not expand string '$tmp[2]'
/usr/local/share/fish/functions/alias.fish (line 19): set body $tmp[2]
^
in function 'alias',
called on standard input,
with parameter list 'foo=cd ~/'
Edit: didn't take me long to find something worse. I defined my aliases as functions, but apparently fish executes all functions when it sources the file? By putting this function in:
function foo
cd ~/
end
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can zsh autocomplete man pages?
Yes. zsh can also auto-complete command line arguments for a lot of commonly used commands (including the GNU utilities, git, mutt, mplayer, imagemagick's convert and others.)
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Well.. they do have quite a list of possibilities to piggy back off ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_fish_names ) that could reduce confusion but still maintain similarity.
I don't believe that's an option for the author as he's known as "fish" around the web. :) http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/about.html
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Yes. zsh can also auto-complete command line arguments for a lot of commonly used commands (including the GNU utilities, git, mutt, mplayer, imagemagick's convert and others.)
Bash too can do that. It does by default in Debian for instance, it also does cool things like autocompleting filenames based on which command is already typed (so it won't autocomplete to some pdf filename if the command is mplayer), autocompletion depending on config files (alias from ~/.ssh/config and /etc/hosts, remotes from the git config, package names when the command is apt-*…). About fish, for the history ba…