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Bash has wonderful completion, all the stuff you listed. It's in the "bash-completion" package, and usually just an "apt-get install bash-completion" away. I u

Bash has wonderful completion, all the stuff you listed. It's in the "bash-completion" package, and usually just an "apt-get install bash-completion" away. I use bash's reverse incremental search ("C-r") to do that. Is the zsh that much better than that? The history sounds neat, except that I tend to segregate my terminal tabs to specific tasks/projects so I'm not very likely to want a command from one tab in another. Also I always set my bash history file to /dev/null so I don't have to worry about leaving sensitive data lying around, which means I new tabs are always a clean slate.

foxhill 13y ago
> Bash has wonderful completion, all the stuff you listed. It's in the "bash-completion" package, and usually just an "apt-get install bash-completion" away. i don't doubt that at all - but it's hardly default bash, and i frequently don't have root on the systems i use (whereas zsh is usually there) > I use bash's reverse incremental search ("C-r") to do that. Is the zsh that much better than that? hands down yes. nobody had to explain how "up-complete" (i don't know what's it's called, but i'm calling it that because that's what it does) works to me. simple and intuitive! > Also I always set my bash history file to /dev/null fair enough - different people have different uses for things, i thoroughly recommend you try zsh though, because, why not! have a poke around the excellent oh-my-zsh as well, try out some themes. i thought i had a good work flow with bash, and that there was really any room for improvement. after a few hours of zsh on my laptop, it was my shell everywhere :)