[spark3k]

Of course there's a lot of HN bitterness here. But I like Fig. I've been running my own heavily customised .zshrc for about a decade with loads of bells and whistles in terms of autocomplete and customised prompts and what not and it has been great and I've kept it current with cool new toys.

But I've dumped most of it in the last month for Fig. I like seeing command specific options, relevant to the current context, and in a long list which I can scan and scroll quickly.

I go to documentation MUCH less now and I'm faster with it. And that's most of what I care about.

Commence retaliations...

[spoils19]

Learn the tools, stay away from the toys. Hundreds of developers have been incredibly productive with a regular shell - there isn't any practical need for a product like Fig. If it were me and I was seeking more productivity from my shell, I would dive into books into how to improve it for myself rather than hook myself to another tool.

[cyral]

If I was seeking to be more productive I would probably install a tool like Fig and be done with it rather than spend time diving into the books to customize my shell. I think a lot of people in this thread are overlooking the simplicity of installing it and having it "just work" versus spending time fiddling with zsh configs.

[user3939382]

I didn’t have fig just work. Actually I realized it made assumptions about the way my bashrc and bash_profile worked that broke the installation of fig and my shell configuration after I made some seemingly unrelated edits to my bash config.

It’s been broken for months and I didn’t get enough value out of it to figure out how to fix the installation.

[ushakov]

configuring zsh is easier that you could possibly think

you only have to do it once and forget about it