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Furthermore, interactive zsh totally breaks vim-like input mode.

If you choose vim keybindings for navigation, it utterly breaks reverse-r search and the hacks you have to use to fix it do not make it an equivalent experience.

It's like the zsh folks said, "fuck those vim guys".

If I didn't have to use a Mac at work and our tooling didn't behave oddly in bash, I wouldn't use it. Bash is much more comfortable.

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What are you talking about? Using reverse-r search in vi mode requires a single line config, no hacks involved.

    bindkey -v '^R' history-incremental-search-backward

I'd say that if you want vim-like bindings, zsh is a much better option. It provides Vim's text objects, surround.vim bindings, and visual selection which bash does not. Also unlike bash, you're free to create your own keybinding if none of the builtin ones suffice. I did exactly that to get an increment/decrement operator that behaves exactly like Vim's ^a/^x.

It's like the zsh folks said, "I like those vim guys".

As a vim user, zsh's vim mode is far better. You do need a few lines of config for stuff like allowing deleting back past the insert position. However, I have never found it lacking, unlike bash which sometimes lacks some motion I try to use.

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