@freemo Yeah, that's one of the things i checked. And that for loop was sweet to type that into fish, as it does automatic indenting as well.

Yes, do check out fish again for the first time.

@lordalveric What can it do for me zsh doesnt?

@freemo I have not looked at zsh too deeply -- yet. But perhaps this may answer some of your questions.

https://fishshell.com/docs/current/faq.html

What I like about fish is that I can create new fish commands nicely in .fish files in a special subdirectory. I wrote a script to do this for me in bash, but the way fish does it is a lot cleaner.

It may be that zsh does what you want it to do. For me, going from bash to fish made a lot of sense. Going from zsh to fish??

Well, this blog might help. It convinced me to go with fish over zsh.

https://medium.com/better-programming/why-i-use-fish-shell-over-bash-and-zsh-407d23293839

@lordalveric ill check it out. I really cant think of anything off my head that zsh would need improving.

I can create new zsh commands by just adding *.sh files to ~/.bin so that seems trivial and doable in any shell.

@freemo True, and as I said, I was doing that in Bash. Fish just makes it cleaner. I'm using it everywhere now.

Both fish and zsh have a lot of plugins for sure. It may be a tossup for you, especially if you have spent a lot of time customising zsh to your liking (and I know you have; I know you!)

Nothing is stopping you from using them both. You may find fish better for some things and zsh for others. Just that all the blogs and videos I looked at push fish out ahead for me.

YMMV, etc. :)

@lordalveric well thats the thing, the nice thing about zsh is you dont need to do any customizing. Out of the box it has every feature i would want or hope for.

for example there are thousands of prompts, I can just pick one, no need to customize my own (as I might in a less popular shell with few prompts to select).

@freemo You don't need to do a lot of customizing in fish, either. Just that I like to customize, and fish makes it dirt easy to do.

Here's another blog.
https://medium.com/better-programming/fish-vs-zsh-vs-bash-reasons-why-you-need-to-switch-to-fish-4e63a66687eb

@lordalveric cool thanks.

@freemo and such a pain to fix typos in Mastodon. :(

@lordalveric yea there is reason for it, but it sucks that you have to delete and reedit.

@freemo I'm sure it has to do with how it handles federation. Though, it should be able to do that behind the scenes, I would think.

@lordalveric well its more than that. in theory it could be made editable, but the main dev fears that could be exploited.

@freemo anything can be exploited. But there are ways to make it more difficult to do so. Hell, you could even throw Merkle trees at it. :)

@lordalveric there are simple enough ways to do it, I agree. Just needs to keep the edit history and youd be good IMO..

@freemo Well, it is a major accomplishment, overall. I can live with the warts. Hopefully they will be addressed in the future.

@lordalveric yea QOTO already has a lot of edits from mainline. So I might add that feature when i have time one day.