Does fish still not have reverse search? I have a hard time taking a shell seriously if you can't perform an operation at least as good as this. Even Powershell supports reverse search!
I'm guessing someone probably has a plugin for it or people just get used to using autosuggest
Not sure if fish has this or not, but I use reverse search in bash exhaustively.
There's no need to enter a separate mode via ctrl-r.
https://fishshell.com/docs/current/interactive.html#searchab...
I find it to be more polished and especially like the way it works with fragments (e.g. if you start typing "git log" and hit Option/Alt-ꜛ it will find commands prefixed with that whereas bash Control-R requires you to hit Control-R first and then type that, which isn't as handy when you realize you want to search halfway through).