>These days shell is a really important tool in my toolkit, and I can see just how much some of my colleagues are held back by not knowing it.
Perhaps, but the shell is still a badly accrued (more than designed) set of options.
Perhaps, but the shell is still a badly accrued (more than designed) set of options.
I wouldn't mind a better shell, but I'm not going to throw out my current shell for the lack of a better shell.
Something like ZSH and the modern Fish shell showed how much traditional shells can improve, but we also need some better primitives, and more controlled experience.
Oh, and they should NOT be based on emulating 40+ year old teletypes anymore, except as part of a "legacy" mode.