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Eh, you can probably get very similar to fish with zsh + loads of plugins, but fish has lots of niceties out of the box (syntax highlighting, autosuggestion based on your directory). I've been using fish + starship with just a fzf plugin and it's got everything I need.

Check it out, it's effective with very little config

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Speaking of starship, today I realized that I don't really need any of its features, I just like the way it looks. So I replicated it with pure fish by creating a simple function:

  function fish_prompt
      # Fedora Silverblue workaround
      set -l pwd (string replace /var/home /home $PWD)
  
      echo
      echo -s (set_color -o cyan)(prompt_pwd -D 3 $pwd) (set_color magenta)(fish_vcs_prompt)
      echo -ns (set_color green) "" (set_color normal) " "
  end

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