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I use fish as my main shell and haven't seen anyone else that has. Honestly its really good, the autocomplete feature is my favorite.

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Actually you can use fish-like autocomplete feature in zsh with this plugin [1]. It works well for years in my machine.

[1] https://github.com/marlonrichert/zsh-autocomplete

I didn't know that, thanks! I wonder why i haven't seen this for BASH considering its probably the most common shell other than Command Prompt.

I don’t think people who use bash actually want to use it. even macos switched to zsh a few years ago.

The macOS change was likely driven by the license which keeps the shipped Bash at version 3.

The numbers for Homebrew installations of Bash suggest hundreds of thousands of people choose to use it.

I have it for running scripts, not for use as a shell

I don't think it parses manpages for autocomplete?

I've been using fish as my primary shell for probably 5-6 years, and it's honestly fucking delightful. I have my own custom theme/prompt, a bunch of custom functions I use on a very regular basis, an extensive config and I use fisher for third party add ons. I've seen a lot of people say things like "oh you can modify ZSH to be like a slightly worse version of fish" and I just don't get why I would bother? I'm already using a non-standard shell...

Also Fish user here. Fish offers many superior features. I use it personally for quick scripting (compared to arcane Bash syntax).

But people just don't want to move away from Bash due to its widely usage. So: + In my company I still use Bash. + I switch all my personal shells to Fish.

Long-time fish user here too. It's pretty widely available, so I suppose it has fair share of use.

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