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To answer your first question specifically, yes. With fish you get substantial ergonomic improvements over bash and ash out of the box. There's also a very mini
by scottyeager 2y ago
To answer your first question specifically, yes. With fish you get substantial ergonomic improvements over bash and ash out of the box. There's also a very minimal learning curve since these features build on familiar idioms. There are some differences with fish as a language that take some getting used to, but bash is always one command away if needed for more complex stuff.
It's absolutely worth a test drive to see if the features excite you. If the lack of bash familiarity is too much of a blocker, then zsh with plugins that provide the same features as fish might be worth a look too.
- LAC-Tech 2y agoset it to default on my laptop. the prompt was a bit noisy by default, and a bit too colourful, but it was very easy to configure. the autocomplete has also helped me out a few times already, much nicer than bash's
- scottyeager 2y agoYeah, simplifying the prompt a bit was one of the first things I did too, and the configuration is smooth indeed. Hope you're still enjoying it. There are some nice things to discover after a while, like the context aware features and some intuitive keybindings. My favorite in the latter category might be ctrl-p/arrow up to reverse search after entering some text.