A shell's must-have features
I’ve been using zsh with oh-my-zsh for a long time now. If I were to replace it, this is what I’d look for in the future:
- Case insensitive completion/globbing
- Auto completion of filenames via tab, left + right, enter
- Fuzzy matching/spelling correction of targets when
cd
-ing - Have sensible prompt looks
- (aliased) directory
- git status
- branch name
- dirty-index indicator
- no username
- ctrl+r history
!$
and!!
expansion before execution- up + down to traverse history
- globbing with
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