[nmglug] Favorite Shell?

[ABQLUG]

> Anyone know anything about the fish community? One thing I like about 
> zsh is that if I have an esoteric question (doesn't happen often but 
> has happened a few times), there's an IRC channel #zsh full of helpful 
> experts.

On https://fishshell.com/ it lists these as options:

     gitter.im channel for quick questions
     Official fish mailing list or IRC channel #fish at irc.oftc.net
     Stack Overflow #fish for scripting, or Superuser #fish for 
configuration and use
     GitHub issues page for when you find a bug or have an awesome idea!

But I haven't attempted contacting them via those methods to be honest.

~ Jared


On Sep 28 2020 3:41 PM, Akkana Peck wrote:
> William Pearson writes:
>> So, been trying out Fish and been enjoying it so far. Got me 
>> wondering what
>> people's favorite Shell is and why?
>
> I've been using zsh for maybe six years. Before that I used tcsh.
> I never used bash much; it had some showstopper problems for me,
> like randomly zeroing out items in the history.
>
> Fish wasn't on my radar before this discussion, but now I'm curious
> and will read up on it. Looks like there are a lot of documents
> where people debate fish vs. zsh, which I will read.
>
> Anyone know anything about the fish community? One thing I like
> about zsh is that if I have an esoteric question (doesn't happen
> often but has happened a few times), there's an IRC channel #zsh
> full of helpful experts.
>
> I have a ridiculously long .zshrc full of aliases and shell
> functions, but probably much of it would also work in fish.
>
> Jared writes:
>> history searching with the PageUp/PageDown buttons, and history
>> saving after each command. But I really like how smart the
>> tab-completion is.I started using it on some of my production
>> servers to save time when I am working. Though fish scripts are a
>
> The zsh smart completion is sometimes wonderful. And sometimes it
> saves me from mistyping a command -- for instance, if I type
> git commit -m xyz<tab> trying to autocomplete a filename, and
> zsh is smart enough to know that -m shouldn't have a filename
> after it, and saves me from making a bad commit.
>
> On the other hand, some of the completion rules (like for adb) are
> broken, so I override them in my .zshrc.
>
>         ...Akkana
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