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Long-time bash guy, I used to use just git-bash-prompt + a few dozen aliases and functions, but recently got some shell envy after seeing a coworker with powerl

Long-time bash guy, I used to use just git-bash-prompt + a few dozen aliases and functions, but recently got some shell envy after seeing a coworker with powerline on fish. I checked out ooh my fish and it was really hard to get it to do what I wanted; things like saving a function (since aliases are defined in one with ooh my fish) took a few hours to figure out because of how homebrew installs fish on Mac. It was also overly difficult to get ^r rev search working, $(foo) didn't work, the random one-liners I'd type didn't work half the time with fish. I switched to zsh + prezto with powerlevel9k ( https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k ) and within an hour, I had something awesome. Here's a guide on installing it: http://www.codeblocq.com/2016/09/Pimp-up-iTerm-with-Zsh-and-prezto-on-Mac-OS-X/ http://www.codeblocq.com/2016/09/Pimp-up-iTerm-with-Zsh-and-... and I'd really really recommend powerlevel9k. Nothing against fish, but after a few weeks, it was just too hard to unlearn all my bashfulness, whereas in zsh it just works as it used to + had the extra functionality I got with fish + now is even more awesome and useful thanks to powerlevel9k.

hartator 10y ago
What's bringing powerlevel9k that's not in oh my zsh? By quickly glancing at it, it just seems to be a bloated theme with no extra features.
- jorvi 10y ago
  This. I used to have that setup (Prezto + Powerlevel9k) but in the end I didn't want all sorts of needless config, and it still felt really heavy. Plus, you actually rarely use anything in the framework. Now I just use zsh + zplug (vim-plug like plugin manager) + pure zsh theme + tiny zshrc. Fast as hell, tailor-made and no-nonsense. You can check it out over here if you're interested: https://github.com/jorvi/dotfiles https://github.com/jorvi/dotfiles
fusiongyro 10y ago
In fish, you do (foo) instead of $(foo), and to do rev search you just type something and press up. To save a function, do funcsave name. It did take me a little while to get used to fish (psub was another thing that took some googling to find) but I don't think I would go back to zsh now.

hartator 10y ago

What's bringing powerlevel9k that's not in oh my zsh? By quickly glancing at it, it just seems to be a bloated theme with no extra features.

jorvi 10y ago
This. I used to have that setup (Prezto + Powerlevel9k) but in the end I didn't want all sorts of needless config, and it still felt really heavy. Plus, you actually rarely use anything in the framework. Now I just use zsh + zplug (vim-plug like plugin manager) + pure zsh theme + tiny zshrc. Fast as hell, tailor-made and no-nonsense. You can check it out over here if you're interested: https://github.com/jorvi/dotfiles https://github.com/jorvi/dotfiles

fusiongyro 10y ago

In fish, you do (foo) instead of $(foo), and to do rev search you just type something and press up. To save a function, do funcsave name. It did take me a little while to get used to fish (psub was another thing that took some googling to find) but I don't think I would go back to zsh now.