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Re:GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @09:24AM (#27528254)
I disagree. Yes, the syntax is verbose so that you get sensical names instead of things like 'awk' and 'grep', but that isn't a big deal because a) tab complete[0], and b) user-definable aliases.

[0] tab complete works on cmdlets, switches, and variables.

Re:GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell by Arnavion on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @02:59PM (#27532163)
And if one misses the short incomprehensible aliases, the common commandlets have those by default anyway. `cat` is `gc`, `grep` is `sls`, `ls` is `gci`, ...

Same for switches and parameters. You don't have to miss `rm -rf foo/`, it's just `ri -re -fo foo/`

Re:GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell by pxc on Thursday June 17, 2021 @12:34AM (#27536165)
I don't mind the verbosity at all, but PowerShell in my experience is painfully slow for interactive use, if you want the kind of niceness you can get with Fish, Zsh, or Elvish (fuzzy filtering, smart-case completion, any-order/substring completion, etc.).

The module system is also not great for distributing little configure snippets like Oh My Zsh or something, it's clunky and over-complicated for that.

Re:GitHub – nushell/nushell: A new type of shell by JadeNB on Wednesday June 16, 2021 @03:23PM (#27532392)
> [0] tab complete works on cmdlets, switches, and variables.

Isn't this how modern tab complete works everywhere? bash 5.1 (the shell I happen to be running right now, and which I mention because I think of its out-of-box tab completion as pretty basic) tab completes variables.