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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Use a shell with decent auto-completion. I have not been irritated by this in years.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Won’t autocomplete fail if you do “cd d” and then try the autocomplete?

Or is that what you mean by “decent” auto-completion?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

No, it will probably go to "Documents", and if you hit tab again it should go to "Downloads". (Assuming you have the normal default folders)

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

bash's autocomplete fails (at least with default settings), but e.g. zsh can figure out what you mean

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not with a decent autocomplete. It will look for a folder starting with a small d and if it doesn't exist it looks at a folder with a large D.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The choice of the letter d was brilliant, that's for sure. Now I'm imagining a folder with a large D.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't get what you mean. It doesn't matter if you write a uppercase or lowercase d

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No. Zsh. It's pretty easy to have a nice auto compl. No need for omz. After knowing poweline10k I just use it and syntax highlight plugin, manually installed. There is no need to add entire omz.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I just don't use caps when naming directories

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

What shell would you recommend? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use fish which is quite nice OOTB, although if you want a posix compliant shell, zsh with some plugins is also great.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If you need to run a set of commands or a script with fish you can just toss them in a file and run bash file.sh. I have been daily driving fish for years and I don't even have think about it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Zsh.

Omg looks like people think omz is a shell.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I personally like xonsh despite the minor amount of wonkiness it has, it's so nice to have python available directly in your shell, it takes the "i don't care about the quality of my code i just want this shit to work with minimal effort"-ness of bash and turns it up to 13.