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To me, it genuinely makes a huge difference that I don't have to manually press Ctrl+R for history search. Because 9 times out of 10, I accept a history suggestion from Fish where I did not think about whether it would be in my history.
This includes really mundane commands, like
cd some/deeply/nested/path/. You would not believe, how often I want tocdinto the same directory.But I've also had it where I started typing a complicated
docker runcommand and Fish suggests the exact command I want to write, because apparently I already ran that exact command months ago and simply forgot.I used bash for 20 years and, while I obviously knew that there were alternatives, it never seemed necessary to switch. Tried fish on a whim a few months ago and I will never go back.
Do you know if fish can input arguments from prevous commands like
ESC + .does in bash?Alt + UpArrow by default
Now i can up and down. Thanks for the info!
Like Alt-.? (/ Alt - > ).
Easier in reach, and can cycle through.
I've not got that in my muscle memory yet... so rarely used... had to look that up. Handy. Should use more.
Yes exactly. I couldn't find it on the fish online docs. Alt-. apparently also work in bash, so i should just not use the ESC version. I use it a lot for renaming and moving files. Thanks.
Hrm. Couldn't find it on the fish online docs, ey? Worth a mention to https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues ?
Yep, and fish has even more ways to expedite frequent used commands and locations, but because the completion stuff's so good, it's easy to never bother setting up abbreviations and keybinds and so on. So many things are often just a couple key presses away, by default, after using it for a while.