for real though, modern linux distros will rarely require you to enter a command line, and if you do, a quick internet search can usually help you find out what you need to enter
for real though, modern linux distros will rarely require you to enter a command line, and if you do, a quick internet search can usually help you find out what you need to enter
Honestly, my biggest gripe with the terminal is how little info it gives you about what you're about to run.
It would be nice if distros included a decent zsh config with autocomplete, auto-help text, and syntax highlighting.
Does
man command
orcommand --help
not usually do it for you?My needs are met by those and stuff like
tldr
,cheat
&howdoi
, but I am specifically looking for something much more discoverable and inline as I type the command.Basically, I want:
fzf
completions (or any fuzzy searcher w/ previewing)man
beneathtldr
,cheat
,howdoi
,navi
, etcI switched to fish last year, and I haven’t looked back. It feels like so much less of an abomination than zsh or bash, and I’ve barely modified it out of the box. Might be worth a whirl, the completion stuff rocks.
lol
i used to use fish, but having to translate scripts from POSIX to fish syntax got annoying. great shell otherwise
man command
often fails to provide examples of common use cases, and sometimes the man page assumes that you already know what the program was created to do.I didn’t know what
cat
was actually for for yearsed is the standard text editor
arch's installer has a really nice zsh setup, but it's not installed by default unfortunately
Hmm I'll look into it. I've been having trouble finding anything that meets my desires in terms of autocomplete/suggestions. Right now I'm doing mostly manual configuration because all the plugins are missing something in some regard.
This is one of the things I hate about a lot of modern popular utilities, the ecosystems around them are extremely fragile and fractured. There isn’t a cohesive set of standard plugins or settings for things like zsh, so everyone ends up with an overly unique setup.
Agreed. Though, there is a lot of really great stuff in the zsh ecosystem. The problem with zsh (and bash, etc) is the archaic completion system, and all the community stuff is built on top of antiquated decisions.
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