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Hi. So I've been a fish user for a while, but I've always gotten frustrated with it not being POSIX compliant. I tried to use zsh with oh-my-zsh to still benefit from fish's capabilities on zsh, but I had 2 problems with it: it was incredibly slow, and it wasn't as good. As I recently found out, the plugins can just be sourced in zsh directly, skipping oh-my-zsh, and fixing my speed issues. But the second issue remained: zsh-autosuggestions is just not as good as fish's autocompletion feature, which suggests commands in a user's PATH, as well as autocompletes directories, without me having ever accessed them, meaning they weren't even in the history at that point, which allowed me to hit the ground running. I want that with zsh as well. Is there a plugin or something like that, which allows for these extra features, and can autosuggest commands from PATH and autocomplete directories? I really want to switch to a POSIX shell, but the lack of this feature would make it feel like quite a downgrade. Thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every time I install a new machine I install zsh and then run the install script in here: https://github.com/romkatv/zsh4humans

It's a simple script created by the powerlevel10k zsh terminal theme author, and it's simple and awesome.

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

Another alternative I like is zim. I feel it’s snappier and less fiddly than oh-my-zsh.

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

I've just skipped "frameworks" and straight up source the .zsh files directly into my .zshrc. Less bloat, more speed.

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

Okay, I LOVE this. If I ever decide to do a new zsh config, I will definitely use that. There's some pretty cool stuff in here, but I've already got everything configured pretty much the way I want it. Thanks anyways.