Subj : Re: Old computer
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Bex
Date : Mon Aug 08 2022 15:35:00

-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to bex <=-

 -=> bex wrote to boraxman <=-

 be> Why yes, yes it does!  :)  It was really hard for me to move away from
 be> bash, but I'm a complete zsh devotee now. It's conveniences are truly
 be> labor saving.

 pF> Could you elaborate? I'm getting into working with shells more, haven't
 pF> looked at a shell other than Bash since the csh/bash wars of the late
 pF> '80s.

 More robust tab completion: case is ignored, fuzzy matching, wildcard tab
competion

 The wildcard tab completion is super-crazy. For example, if I type:

 vi /v/l/p/library and hit tab, it exampds to:
 vi /var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library

 Auto-complete history. I used to *hate* this, but now I rely on it. Start
typing, for example, "vi " and you'll see the last time you ran vim. If you had
run it with "vim thisIsSilly.example" then while typing "vi" the rest of your
previous run is shown, and you can hit tab to fill. But even more handy, say
you are like me and edit a kajillion text files in any particular work day. I
can type "vi" and then hit the up arrow to go through all matching lines. Or I
can keep typing until I can see the autocomplete has worked.

 Last one for now: zsh plugins. My favorite example is a silly little history
plugin. The plugin creates a few different aliases which get processed when
..zshrc is sourced, including "hsi" to do a case-insensitve grep on history.
It's something that I can easily replicate in bash, of course. I just think
that it's cool to have it separated out into its own container. If I don't want
to have those aliases anymore, in bash I have to go through my aliases file,
finding and deleting each one. In zsh, I just remove the plugin.

 Silly stuff, but the expansion of tab completion and auto-complete history has
sped up my productivity by a good 5%. Over an 8 hour day, I dig having time for
another coffee break.  :D


"Well I can't figure out just two! So let's say that you opened 200."
- Professor Turpentine, "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"

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