steel_for_humansWhat are some programs/tools/packages that you can't live without?
fish - Ever since I’ve made the switch to Linux, the terminal has been part of the experience. And, honestly, I wouldn’t want it any other way. Besides its efficiency, I also very much enjoy how it automatically keeps track of everything I do within. I don’t get that functionality whenever I do something within a GUI. But bash left a lot to be desired in that regard; its history simply didn’t record everything. It was also pretty bare-bones; no syntax highlighting, no auto suggestions etc. Thus, after trying to bend bash (and later zsh) to my will and ultimately being dissatisfied with the janky mess I was left with, I finally gave in to at least give fish a honest try. The rest is history. Heck, fish is the very first thing I install on a machine.
talBut bash left a lot to be desired in that regard; its history simply didn’t record everything.
Bash doesn’t merge history from multiple bash instances into your ~/.bash_history by default. If you want that to persist:
unix.stackexchange.com/…/preserve-bash-history-in…
Add the following to your ~/.bashrc:
# When the shell exits, append to the history file instead of overwriting it shopt -s histappend
Thank you for that! IIRC, it was one of the settings I took from bash-sensible. I can say that it definitely improved after just a couple of changes to ~/.bashrc. Add in ble.sh and it suddenly seemed somewhat modern instead of archaic.
Unfortunately, I don’t remember exactly what broke the camel’s back. However, FWIW, contrary to how I recall my experiences with bash and zsh, I don’t feel any frustration while using using fish. So it’s definitely doing something for me 😉.
