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Badassify your terminal and shell

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Re: Badassify your terminal and shell

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Post by 0942v8653 »

cpach wrote: post #26
voltagex_ wrote: post #23

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Would you say it's worth switching to/learning zsh itself? My default has been /bin/bash for years and years and I find I'm too slow while I'm trying to learn zsh. Plus, if you spin up an image on EC2 or DigitalOcean, the default will be bash.

I recently installed fish shell after about 15 years of bash usage. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to bash on my PC. I never really customized bash, and fish has so good defaults that I don’t think I'll customize it much. Web site: http://fishshell.com/

Wow. Just looked at the fish docs and it takes the two reasons I almost started using zsh/omz for, syntax highlighting and completion, and by the looks of it blows the zsh versions out of the water.

Re: Badassify your terminal and shell

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0942v8653 wrote: post #51
cpach wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recently installed fish shell after about 15 years of bash usage. I don’t think I’ll ever go back to bash on my PC. I never really customized bash, and fish has so good defaults that I don’t think I'll customize it much. Web site: http://fishshell.com/

Wow. Just looked at the fish docs and it takes the two reasons I almost started using zsh/omz for, syntax highlighting and completion, and by the looks of it blows the zsh versions out of the water.

The completion is excellent. It just works.

Re: Badassify your terminal and shell

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Post by bitwize »

to3m wrote: post #35
bitwize wrote: post #18

I don't want my terminal badassified; I want to get work done. Rather than bling out my command prompt I simply try to do what real developer, data, and sysadmin badasses do: * Learn your shell language -- really learn it. Learn how to fit programs together, how to manage jobs, and all of the control structures in your shell language. Avail yourself of aliases and shell functions. * Learn the Unix command set, sed, a…

Right, sure - but you definitely - well, probably ;) - still want iTerm2! For Linux, try terminator: http://gnometerminator.blogspot.co.uk/p/introduction.html , or your package manager. There are doubtless tons of other options.

I don't use a Mac, and on Linux I use plain xterm. Does the job, is fast, and you can spawn a lot of them cheaply. Arranging them is easy with a tiling wm.
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