I always recommend fish to anyone who doesn't (yet!) have strong opinions about their shell.
Immediately seeing if you misspelled a command because the color changes is a huge benefit if you're not super familiar with the command line.
The auto-complete and suggestions are also miles better than bash - they are automatically generated from man pages, so most commands have a usable set of completions.
The web-based config lets you easily tweak settings that would otherwise be an incomprehensible soup of PS1=3!@*(!@!@ gobbledygook.
Also, it mostly "just works" out of the box, so you really don't have to waste any time setting anything up if you don't really care.
The auto-complete and suggestions are also miles better than bash - they are automatically generated from man pages, so most commands have a usable set of completions.
I never understood this. It's always seemed worse - in bash/zsh I can tab complete branches/tags etc in git, pods/deployments etc in kubectl. I try that in fish and it'll just list files in my PWD
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I always recommend fish to anyone who doesn't (yet!) have strong opinions about their shell.
Immediately seeing if you misspelled a command because the color changes is a huge benefit if you're not super familiar with the command line.
The auto-complete and suggestions are also miles better than bash - they are automatically generated from man pages, so most commands have a usable set of completions.
The web-based config lets you easily tweak settings that would otherwise be an incomprehensible soup of PS1=3!@*(!@!@ gobbledygook.
Also, it mostly "just works" out of the box, so you really don't have to waste any time setting anything up if you don't really care.
Sounds promisingm, especially now that macOS defaults to Zsh... I very rarely see any documentation where that is the default.
I never understood this. It's always seemed worse - in bash/zsh I can tab complete branches/tags etc in git, pods/deployments etc in kubectl. I try that in fish and it'll just list files in my PWD