I’m thinking it might be time to jump ship, and look at alternate shells. I’m hearing a fair bit of noise about zsh from people who know what they’re doing… Any advice from people out there on this?
Feb 25
I’m thinking it might be time to jump ship, and look at alternate shells. I’m hearing a fair bit of noise about zsh from people who know what they’re doing… Any advice from people out there on this?
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Zshell is neat, but bash is comfortable and pervasive. You can get much of zsh's benefit in bash by installing Bash Completion (http://www.caliban.org/bash/). it's in DarwinPorts, handily enough (bash-completion).
The biggest problem with zsh is that its line editor does not handle utf-8 well; eg, if you type non-ASCII characters and then press backspace, you will end up deleting part of the prompt. If it wasn't for that, I would have switched long ago.