On: Elvish: friendly and expressive shell for Linux, m...

[georgyo]

Have you tried zsh with oh-my-zsh?

[myhf → georgyo]

Does that have anything like syntax highlighting or dim text typeahead suggestions and completions?

https://fishshell.com/assets/img/screenshots/autosuggestion....

[johnramsden → myhf]

Yep, I use all of them. You can pretty much add whenever you want with omzsh

[d12bb → myhf]

Sure

[myhf → d12bb]

I see. Apparently those are in zsh-users, not oh-my-zsh.

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

[floatboth → myhf]

And history search https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-history-substring-search

oh-my-zsh is an unnecessary "config framework" that includes all the things already.

[d12bb → floatboth]

Amen. The only thing oh-my-zsh adds is convenience, which is bought with awful performance. Even without any plugins activated, startup time of the oh-my-zsh--zsh takes forever. Better use a homegrown .zshrc, with a simple plugin manager like antibody[1].

[1]: http://getantibody.github.io/