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Fish shell, a popular user-friendly command-line shell, has announced version 4.2, a new release that builds on the 4.0 series. Among the most visible improvements is an upgrade to history-based autosuggestions, which now properly handle multi-line commands.

Fish 4.2 also improves how prompts are managed: transient prompts that contain more lines than the final one are now cleared properly, preventing visual clutter on screen. Similarly, the shell now hides parts of a multi-line prompt that have scrolled out of view, eliminating duplicated lines after repainting.

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[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

If on he other hand you want a transition that's really painful and slow but sooo rewarding (highly subjective, of course) you can look into nushell. They just said "screw this 50 years of conceptual baggage and let's do it data centric and proper".

I still am at perhaps 10% the speed of my zsh setup but the concepts are so intriguing I'm sticking to it. At least I try to ...