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Boris Jamot ✊ /

I used zsh a long time ago when I was a student. It was more user-friendly than bash.

But as I didn't use since more than 15 years, I couldn't say more about the comparison with fish.

Recently I've installed zsh + oh-my-zsh as a POSIX alternative to fish, but it seems that many native features of fish (auto-completion, coloration, ...) have to be configured manually in zsh (through plugins or conf file).

Fish works great out of the box!

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Paweł Świątkowski

Actually I don't like autocompletion. It can reveal far too much when you are for example showing something for larger audience ;) So having that built-in in fish does not count for me as better. But I guess I'll give it another shot some time soon.

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Boris Jamot ✊ /

I get your point :)
But the real strength of fish is its ability to auto-complete commands and sub-commands, for example for git (branch , docker stop , ...). It's really powerful !