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> Personally I found zsh worth switching to even without spending any meaningful amount of time learning to use it. Definitely. Smarter tab completion and smar
by elithrar 14y ago
> Personally I found zsh worth switching to even without spending any meaningful amount of time learning to use it.
Definitely. Smarter tab completion and smarter word deletion (Ctrl+W) are probably the two "most used" features for me.
FWIW, after ~6 years using Bash, moving to zsh last week was a revelation. I swapped to tmux (after dabbling in screen) the week prior. Has been a good fortnight.
[1] https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/ https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/ is a great source of zsh plug-ins and configs. I use the "simple" theme and the git, brew and gem plugins (amongst others): https://github.com/elithrar/dotfiles/blob/master/zshrc https://github.com/elithrar/dotfiles/blob/master/zshrc
- devgutt 14y agoCtrl-W works in bash too.
- djeikyb 14y agoFor this string with cursor at end: "cd /usr/share/gammu" Bash[1] deletes to the space. Zsh[2] deletes to the slash. I installed Zsh just now to find this out, and I love that Zsh appears to use ctl-w to delete words like vim does. [1]: GNU bash, version 4.2.37(2)-release (i686-pc-linux-gnu) [2]: zsh 5.0.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
- devgutt 14y agoYou can use META-<Backspace> (Emacs mode)