oh-my-fish

I've been using fish for at least a year now and I absolutely love it, altogether with oh-my-fish [0]. I don't mind the incompatibility to bash, but using "; and" instead of "&&" is a little annoying. Everything else is great. It actually auto-completes remote hosts and paths when you type ssh or scp commands! It also fuzzy-completes filenames when you're lazy (or have typos in them) and a bunch of other neat things. The up-key function after typing in parts of a command and ^F have probably saved me hours of time wasted in bash. 0: https://github.com/bpinto/oh-my-fish

It's been many years since I've use zsh, so I won't pretend to know what's state of the art with it. I will say that one of the reasons I use fish is it's incredibly easy to customize. My old bash config just came along with me from years of use. Some of it I understood, some of it was just culled from the Internet and kept working, so I kept around (see: prompt customization). But, other than simple aliases, env var setting, and the occasional function, I didn't bother much with shell customization. I find fish simple enough that I can write a new function or tab completion and not have to spend a day figuring out the bash syntax again. Writing tab completions in fish is really, really simple. It's the thing that initially sold me and it's kept me hooked. The history is more powerful than bash, too. Although I find it sometimes wo

I only use Fish interactively. It has really nice autocompletion (which I'm pretty sure reads my mind), and cycling tab completion which I like. Also oh-my-fish[1] is awesome. Last I checked it was maintained by one guy, meaning support isn't always great. I still use bash for scripting (can't get away from it) and when compatibility is an issue. [1] https://github.com/bpinto/oh-my-fish

You should try out fish[1], one of the features that makes it great is that it does exactly what the chrome omnibox does, just with commands. It shows what it will complete after you press ^F and it is a lot of times correct. It also has lots of other features, like tab completion that tells you what the options of commands do. So reading the manpages or typing -h is generally not needed. If you do try it, also try one of the themes of oh-my-fish[2], most of them have a git thing that lets you know if you have uncommitted stuff and on what branch you are. [1] http://fishshell.com/ [2] https://github.com/bpinto/oh-my-fish

For people looking for a more generic start https://github.com/bpinto/oh-my-fish might be a good hint, too

Why is zsh interesting, when you can have a friendly shell out of the box https://github.com/bpinto/oh-my-fish I tried to get started with both. For me fish was by far the easier & more friendly starter. For shell powerusers zsh might be offer more options and less pitfalls.

I had to install oh-my-fish[0] and enable the RVM plugin to get RVM to work. [0]https://github.com/bpinto/oh-my-fish

I've been a zsh user for a long time and I have to say that fish is great! Its super fast and starts almost instantaneously. On zsh, I would always use fasd[0] to help jump directories, but on fish I dont feel the need. The auto-completion is just fantastic. If I were you, I'd give it a try just for the awesome tab completions. For the 'oh-my-zsh' lovers out there, there's 'oh-my-fish' as well - https://github.com/bpinto/oh-my-fish [0] - https://github.com/clvv/fasd

It was so much fancier than ZSH which I've been using pretty throughly for years, but I wasn't impressed until I used a oh-my-fish like "framework". Now with a bump to ><<<+> 2.0 I'll give it a go again! https://github.com/bpinto/oh-my-fish