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I used to customise the hell out of tcsh, zsh... until I started using fish, which just has sane defaults.

What makes me reluctant to use fish is the fact that it's syntax is totally incompatible with bash and zsh.

Same, I used fish for about a month. I really liked all of it's out of the box features. I reverted back to zsh when everything I googled had to be fish specific and it felt like I was spending more time trying to make bash/zsh instructions work with fish.

I do miss the flag suggestions that would autofill.

I use fish but only interactively. For scripts I still use bash. The amount of fish-specific syntax I use interactively (and, string interpolation etc.) is so small, it doesn't really bother me.

Addendum: I did write my entire prompt (which is 81 lines right now) in fish (my rationale was "maybe it's better performance-wise"), which was hell and I hated it but that's the only piece of fish code I've ever written.

you dont need to learn fish syntax for interactive use. basics are almost same.

when you met some sh code on random internet,

  - sh(bash) -c "..."
  - type bash enter then paste it
  - save to file + shebang

https://github.com/edc/bass

Lets you use bash utilities from fish. So you can do things like `source` files and have it work.

Also I prefer to use Fish only as an interactive shell, actual scripts can stay bash.

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