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I switched solely for the reason Zsh has command substring search. It's a huge timesaver for some who spends more than 50% of time on the terminal.

• qznc 14y ago
  Ctrl-R in bash?
  • ComputerGuru 14y ago
    No, substring searches. Ctrl+R in bash (by default, at least) will not search from the middle of a command. For instance, if the previous command was "hello", searching for "ello" will not bring it up. Whereas with zsh, it will.
    • haberman 14y ago
      The default bash on OS X (3.2.48(1)-release) just did when I tried it.
      • lloeki 14y ago
        Ctrl+R definitely works that way with bash, but I think he may be referencing tab completion: > ell<TAB> Completing external command git-shell xdmshell xkbbell Completing shell function _ispell
• rcfox 14y ago
  I wish there were ido-style searching, where typing "slstr" would match "some long string". (Provided, of course, there were no other strings that were a closer match.)