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anh79 on Aug 12, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Stronger Shell

I agree. But "fish" is quite strange to me, especially its way to recall history. In "Bash", I can type "^ R" and browser the history very fast. In "fish", I have to type and select with up/down array; it's not easy to browser the history randomly (FIXME).

My #Bash" history has > 96k entries (woh, believe it or not; because of this too big number, "xterm" + "screen" always stuck when exitting; but "urxvt" + "tmux" work perfectly thanks to "urxvt" daemon mode.)

Porting this huge history database from my daily "bash" to "fish" is just a nightmare ... :D

ridiculous_fish on Aug 13, 2015 | [–]

Actually fish will import your ~/.bash_history automatically!

anh79 on Aug 12, 2015 | [–]

(Talking about interactive "fish" shell; but that's the point: I need to be familiar with its interative mode first.)

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