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Paweł Świątkowski

I've been using ZSH for ages (but recently without oh-my-zsh) but I keep hearing good things about fish. Do you know any decent comparison article? Maybe I'll try it.
My main worry is that quick oneliners would not work there as they used.

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Boris Jamot ✊ /

I used zsh a long time ago when I was a student. It was more user-friendly than bash.

But as I didn't use since more than 15 years, I couldn't say more about the comparison with fish.

Recently I've installed zsh + oh-my-zsh as a POSIX alternative to fish, but it seems that many native features of fish (auto-completion, coloration, ...) have to be configured manually in zsh (through plugins or conf file).

Fish works great out of the box!

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Paweł Świątkowski

Actually I don't like autocompletion. It can reveal far too much when you are for example showing something for larger audience ;) So having that built-in in fish does not count for me as better. But I guess I'll give it another shot some time soon.

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Boris Jamot ✊ /

I get your point :)
But the real strength of fish is its ability to auto-complete commands and sub-commands, for example for git (branch , docker stop , ...). It's really powerful !