• governorkeagan@lemdro.id
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    7 months ago

    Possibly a n00b question. What’s the benefit of fish over zsh or bash? Does it provide something extra?

    I’m using zsh at the moment.

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.ml
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      7 months ago

      The auto suggestion from Fish shell is something I cannot live without anymore. Saves me so much time and avoiding typos. Not sure if zsh can do the same, maybe with a plugin ? If so, I’d like to hear about it. I use zsh for a few things, besides bash and fish to keep their history apart.

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          7 months ago

          Thanks. Got it installed, and works after reading the Debian README :

          Installation

          Add the following to your .zshrc:

          source /usr/share/zsh-autosuggestions/zsh-autosuggestions.zsh

          then start a new terminal session.

          Tips

          1. To mimic fish’s auto-completion by pressing Ctrl+F
          bindkey '^F' autosuggest-accept
          
    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      Last time I checked it’s like zsh but preconfigured and dumbed down. Like the zsh4humans repo, but worse.