Bash vs ZSH

Sorry, I choose neither. For many years I tweaked my ZSH configuration and carried around a theme file. Eventually I decided to try Fish and was delighted to find it did everything I had configured ZSH to do right out of the box:

  • command completion (git, brew, asdf, etc)
  • git branch tracking
  • history completion
  • sane looping and function declaration

The only thing I have done to configure it is tweaking my prompt slightly.

The only two downsides I have encountered:

  • Occasionally I’ll drop into bash just to paste a command that doesn’t play nicely with fish
  • I need to remember to use env to set some variables.
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