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    [–] lena 11 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

    I just use fish, I never really had the need for ultra-customization. But I do admire stuff from places like !unixporn@lemmy.world.

    [–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

    I use nushell, returning to a normal shell is starting to feel weird ngl

    [–] alias_qr_rainmaker@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

    i need to get familiar with fish. i've studied the syntax but i still have hardly used it, and if you really want to learn how to code something, you gotta keep typing it until it's in your muscle memory.

    [–] herzenschein@pawb.social 8 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

    While I do like fish syntax, you don't really need to learn it. You can just use it for your interactive use in the terminal while writing your scripts in bash.

    [–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 2 points 5 hours ago

    This is the way. I've never even attempted to script anything in fish, but it's just a great interactive shell OOTB. I think at most I have a colorscheme and an alias or 2.

    [–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

    this is basically what I did until I dropped fish for zsh because of annoyances with how it functioned.

    Scripting in fish is obnoxious though if you learned bash first, heavily recommend staying far away πŸ˜‚

    Hard recommend staying in bash or at least zsh, at least you maintain compatibility with others if you ever decided to share your scripts.

    [–] BlueBockser@programming.dev 1 points 1 hour ago

    I tried using zsh again after having used fish for a while, but I just couldn't do it. Trying to configure the ergonomics that fish ships OOTB into zsh was a pain, and I couldn't get it to a satisfactory level.

    Regarding scripts, you don't have to use the fish scripting language. Just keep writing your scripts in Bash, and as long as you use a shebang, it'll work fine in fish.

    [–] lena 1 points 7 hours ago

    Yeah that's what I do to, I don't need to write complex scripts anyway. Fish's syntax seems interesting though.