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Re: Using ZSH

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Here's why I have't changed over. I've used bash for years and know it pretty well. I dabbled with zsh a few times, but in the end it came down to the benefit not being worth the cost.

The cost is that the default config requires a fair bit of tweaking to get usable, and the knowledge to do that tweaking is not easily found, not so newbie-friendly as another commenter above mentions, so I have to learn a bunch of beginner stuff first before I can start to get the extra power benefits.

FWIW, I found that really understanding readline and .inputrc gave me much greater power in bash for less effort than having to learn zsh. The extra return of zsh wasn't worth the effort.

Re: Using ZSH

#12
post #10

I am going to use your blog post to make the switch over from bash. I've tried zsh 2 times but reverted (can't recall why). Please keep logging your journey. Also, what are the problems you have faced ? What did not work ? Any bash_profile or bashrc lines you could not convert? Any bash scripts that did not run ?

I would check out Oh-My-ZSH on GitHub ( https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh ). This makes it very quick and painless to get ZSH set up. As for any problems, I didn't really face any. I'm not a system admin so bash wasn't a big part of my day to day. I can still run bash scripts in ZSH (because of the shebang line) and there wasn't anything in my bash_profile that could not be converted. Because of this, there w…

Your first easy installation procedure fails, and asks me to use this: --no-check-certificate

I used this with wget and it works. I hope this is okay. Thanks a lot.

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