[oneandoneis2]

That's actually the first time I've seen a decent set of reasons why zsh is worth using. Well done.

Almost every other "Switch from bash to zsh, it has this awesome killer feature" article I've seen has raved about a feature that's available in Bash & has been for years.

I'm starting at a new job in a month or so, I shall try & use it as an opportunity to switch to zsh since I won't have any can't-live-without bash shortcuts in place at that point.

(Last time I tried switch to zsh, it took OMZ to get it useable, but it also made it too slow to live with. Hopefully starting with a clean slate will do the trick)

[D9u]

You can easily drop your existing BASH aliases, etc, into .zshrc and not even notice that you've switched to zsh.

As for "Oh My Zsh," I've never seen any reason to use it, as zsh works fine without any add-ons.

[pyre]

  | As for "Oh My Zsh," I've never seen any reason
  | to use it, as zsh works fine without any add-ons.

I'll second this. I've never found a need to use "Oh My Zsh," and I've been using zsh for a few years.

[ibrahima]

> Almost every other "Switch from bash to zsh, it has this awesome killer feature" article I've seen has raved about a feature that's available in Bash & has been for years.

Yeah, I feel the same way. Most people seem to act like bash doesn't have tab completion or customizable prompts or something. This is actually the first time I've seen actual useful features of zsh that bash actually does not have (path expansion for instance). But I actually have my own little workaround scripts for those types of things that I'm used to so I don't feel a huge compelling reason to switch. The multiple shell history thing is a pretty good reason though. Maybe I'll switch eventually.