September 2025

    Shells

    1. Started out with ZSH and spent many many many hours twearing with my zshrc file. Ultimately got to something vaguely useful, but it still felt...
    • "hacky", like a few weird keybindings entered a strange non-insert state that left me confused
    • slow to startup (relatively)
    • akward syntax highlighting
    1. This led me to fish shell, which just WORKS out the box. but after a while i did notice some quirks that are pretty annoying tbh...
    • completions lacking, case and point git stash only has --help as a completion. not a good start given how popular git is...
    • fzf extension for zsh just... works, its clean easy to read and actually has all the arguments (more of a repetition of the previous point tbh)
    • lacks POSIX compatibility. this is REALLY annoying. its not THAT much better, but writing hyprland scripts (in normal sh) i have to remember its slightly different than fish
    1. An alternative option is nushell? could be something more modern that supports data types

    Vi mode

    the annoying alt backspace thing in zsh that enters into a strange mode where i can't insert it actually vim mode! (which is actually useful)

    Also, pure has a colour change to yellow on the prompt when in vi mode! can use w, b, (j and k to select commands), so actually really useful