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by em-bee 1026 days ago
i am using fish for more than a decade and i don't have any dotfiles for it. (do i win? :-p )

your commands to help not working in fish? that is rather surprising. i would think that fish users should be aware that shell specific things in fish are different, so they should have been able to cope and translate as needed.

and it's not what you can do in fish that makes it special. it's how you do it. the syntax coloring, the completions, the syntax itself...

the key thing for me is how it handles searching history and autosuggestions. i just learned how to somehow recreate this setup in zsh, and i am very curious if bash can do that too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37274207

btw i believe bash got a lot better at command completion after fish popularized the idea.

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Atuin or fzf is well worth adding to fish. I only add one of those (atuin these days) and a few custom scripts to make my life a bit easier.