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by tomatocracy 993 days ago
Ctrl+R is nice, and was a big quality of life improvement when I first found out about it.

Recently I've found a similar improvement going from "plain old" ctrl+r for history to a set of zsh extensions plus fzf - my current set of extensions is zsh-autocomplete, zsh-autosuggestions, zsh-syntax-highlighting, zsh-history-substring-search, zsh-histdb, and fzf-histdb.
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bbkane 992 days ago
That sounds super similar my setup ( https://github.com/bbkane/dotfiles/tree/master/zsh ). I'll check out a few of those I haven't yet.
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tomatocracy 992 days ago
Some interesting ones there and sounds like you have a similar philosophy to me - don't customize to the point that context-switching to bash is a pain.

For tab-completion I actually prefer the builtin zsh completer set to use the menu mode - this is one of the big improvements you get with zsh over bash / etc to my mind. I have in .zshrc

  zstyle ':completion:*' menu select=2 select=long interactive
You can set it to use your ls colors with something like

  zstyle ':completion:*' list-colors ${(s.:.)LS_COLORS}"
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