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> If you haven't tried fish, I highly recommend it. It takes a little getting use to, but overall it adds a lot of really amazing functionality that I find really useful.

Serious question (that I've asked elsethread): what does fish offer than zsh & bash lack? A quick perusal of the docs reveals nothing obvious, but … I could be missing stuff.

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Other people indeed chimed in on your question in other comments. But here's my take about the most important fish features:

* Instant auto suggestions, you just type stuff, like in a web browser.

* Sane defaults, no need to bring around your own config. On a new machine I just install fish, run fish_config and customize the prompt with the web UI.

* Scripting with simple syntax, especially for one-liners. Yes, fish is incompatible with bash, but it's less of issue in this case.

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