[patrickg]

I have been using fish for a few months exclusively on my Mac. I really miss a few bashisms: mostly pressing esc-. inserts the last part of the last command. I have not changed the shell on my server, somehow I am afraid of breaking things... (bad shell scripts that don't have correct shebang line).

[ryanwatkins]

esc-. is my biggest miss as well. There are discussions on this but still havent been able to fix it on osx in iterm2 myself. Did get option-. to work for now but esc-. has 20+ years of pure reflex action burned into my brain.

[patrickg]

Can you post your solution (or give a pointer)?

[ryanwatkins]

function fish_user_key_bindings bind \e. 'history-token-search-backward' end

There is a thread about it here

https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/89

[patrickg]

Not successful yet on the Mac Terminal.app command line... Thanks anyway.

[efnx]

In fish it's simple enough to start typing the command you want and then hit arrow right to autocomplete. If you have a couple often commands that start the same way just arrow up or down to cycle through them, then arrow right to put them on the command line.

[patrickg]

Simplified example: mkdir foo, cd foo. I type in mkdir foo then press enter, type "cd esc-.". Doesn't work. Command completion in fish doesn't help here. In real life this is of course mostly more complicated than a simple "foo".

[adiM]

I use zsh and for this use case I typically use "mkdir foo" followed by "cd $!".

[0xACE]

function mkcd () { mkdir -p "$1" && cd "$1" }

[patrickg]

as I wrote: this is a simplified example ...