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> My absolute favourite thing about fish is that I type, it’ll automatically suggest (in light grey) a matching command that I ran recently. I can press the right arrow key to accept the completion, or keep typing to ignore it.

You can also accept the suggestion with ctrl+f (or just a part of the suggestion with alt+f).

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This was my 'old man yells at cloud moment.'

I was playing with CachyOS recently, and opened a terminal and it absolutely frightened me. There was wayyy too much going on as I typed.

So I did what old fuds do and changed the default shell back to bash.

I was impressed with its completion/suggestion speed, but it seemed overwhelming. Is that something that gets better with time?

You can make it minimal. fish_config is a builtin tool you can use to switch to a simple theme and prompt.

I think once you use it for a while, you kind of expect it to be there and tune it out. Then you only really perceive it when you're interested.

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