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Re:s/bash/zsh/g by indigodaddy on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:29PM (#28932674)
I tried out zsh and just could not get used to how different tab completion was vs bash, so went back to bash quickly. Is tab completion on fish more similar to bash than zsh is?
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Re:s/bash/zsh/g by MiguelX413 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @12:36PM (#28932774)
I use zsh because of its tab completion lol
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Re:s/bash/zsh/g by kbd on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:35PM (#28936122)
Totally. And there’s nothing better than fzf-tab

https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab

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Re:s/bash/zsh/g by MiguelX413 on Saturday October 23, 2021 @05:44PM (#28972637)
I'll try it out!
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Re:s/bash/zsh/g by mwaitjmp on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @01:48PM (#28933629)
Totally agree, it’s very off putting to use zsh auto complete after years of using bash.
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Re:s/bash/zsh/g by cookiecaper on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @01:00PM (#28933071)
Try it for yourself: https://rootnroll.com/d/fish-shell/
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Re:s/bash/zsh/g by indigodaddy on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @11:48PM (#28939996)
Ah cool thanks!
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Re:s/bash/zsh/g by bscphil on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:41PM (#28937098)
No, fish actually has super fancy autocompletion with suggestions, which is even more complicated and visually messy than the zsh defaults. Furthermore, none of it can be disabled in fish. (This is why I don't use fish, fwiw.)

On the other hand, you can disable all these advanced features in zsh and get something a bit closer to a bash readline shell, with a few extra features. That's what I use.

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Re:s/bash/zsh/g by acdha on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @01:16PM (#28933254)
I didn't find it too much of a switch — it works well and things like Option-><arrow> to complete it word by word are really handy with repetitive tasks like using the AWS CLI.
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