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by edgyquant 1546 days ago
I’m a long term bash user, I tried fish and just couldn’t get used to it (death by 1000 cuts is a great way to put it.) I’ve recently settled on zsh but I still prefer bash’s basic history (e.g. just pressing up without typing any command)
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> I still prefer bash’s basic history (e.g. just pressing up without typing any command)

Huh? You can do the same in zsh.

By default it’s iffy. I’m sure you can configure it to match bash but if I open a shell, spawn a service (e.g. run a typescript backend,) do some work in another terminal and come back the command I get when just pressing up is different. It’s such a small thing that I’ve stuck with zsh regardless, and command completion is worth so much more to me, but I still consider it a nice to have to figure out one day.