Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 09, 2006 09:30 PM
Or <a href="http://roo.no-ip.org/fish" title="no-ip.org">fish</a no-ip.org>. By far the best shell for interactive use in _my_ humble opinion. But I am not objective since I'm the author of fish.
A few advantages fish has over over zsh:
When autocompleting commands, a brief description of what each command does is shown, when autocompleting manual pages, the whatis info on that page is shown. When autocompleting a process id, the name of the process is shown, etc., etc..
When running inside X, the X clipboard buffer is used for copy and paste operations.
Syntax highlighting, including coloring many types of errors in red.
Good error reporting, including actually helpful error messages, stack traces with line numbers and argument lists, and detection of common errors with suggestions on how to fix them.
'Universal variables', i.e. variables whose value is shared between all the users fish instances, and which are automatically saved across reboots. This is a very nice way to change configuration options like PAGER without having to edit any files.
No configuration required, fish comes with a sane default configuration, to use zsh at it's best you have to spend a lot of time tweaking your<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.zshrc file.
A much improved syntax. No more strange language quirks like whitespace sensitivity.
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Re:bash completion?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 09, 2006 09:30 PMA few advantages fish has over over zsh:
When running inside X, the X clipboard buffer is used for copy and paste operations.
Syntax highlighting, including coloring many types of errors in red.
Good error reporting, including actually helpful error messages, stack traces with line numbers and argument lists, and detection of common errors with suggestions on how to fix them.
'Universal variables', i.e. variables whose value is shared between all the users fish instances, and which are automatically saved across reboots. This is a very nice way to change configuration options like PAGER without having to edit any files.
No configuration required, fish comes with a sane default configuration, to use zsh at it's best you have to spend a lot of time tweaking your<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.zshrc file.
A much improved syntax. No more strange language quirks like whitespace sensitivity.
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