The Fish interface for this is much more convenient and elegant and ergonomic.

yeah agreed. If you have trouble understanding how it could be better just install fish and try it for 5 minutes and you'll see what we mean. There are attempts to emulate some of it in zsh, but it's still not as good as what fish comes with out of the box.

[1] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

[2] https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

oh my god, i tried it and my terminal turned into a christmas tree! How can people actually work with such kitsch colors?

Because we are able to extract useful information from colorized output, being as it is an extra dimension of information output; I for one don't get an urge to pass a sort of of societal judgement of the high/low artistic worth of the use of color which may further increase efficiency. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Color is indeed very useful for terminals. But it seems to me that fish takes the use of color to an exaggerated, very unpleasant, extreme. It feels overwhelming to my senses. Like having blinking text here and there. It fills the whole screen with a mix of normal and reverse text in several colors, just for simple stuff like completing an argument.

That's actually very interesting :) I personally love it and find it perfect. Concretely useful. I hope there's a way to tune it down.

You can customize the colors with fish_config

i've seen it, and it is indeed easy to tone the coloring down. The fish shell completion is amazing, I love it! Too bad the shell does not seem to support process substitution (at least not with the same syntax as bash or zsh), so I cannot use it for the moment.

With bash, I like to put this in my `.inputrc`, so I can start typing a command, and use the up and down arrow keys to autocomplete:

  "\e[A": history-search-backward
  "\e[B": history-search-forward

Fish autocompletes history