Would you mind expanding on what fish does out-of-the-box that prezto neglects or hides behind configuration? I am in a similar boat as you and was just wondering what I had to look forward to as a prezto user.
Well for example, with prezto I wasn't really happy with any prompt provided, so I decided to make my own, and although it's not rocket science, it's definitely easier to customize your prompt using Fish.
Another thing is writing scripts and completions functions with fish, it's a way better experience than zsh. Writing completion stuff using zsh is really painful.
The preview with the autocompletion is really cool, but maybe you can have that with zsh too.
And then there's the speed, it's totally not objective but IIRC my prezto setup was quite a bit slower.
In the end I just really appreciate that I don't have to spend time customizing my shell: now I install fish on my VMs or servers, and everything is like I want it without me doing anything.
If you're happily using prezto you may not have much to gain from using fish, and you may not even like it since there's stuff from prezto you won't find out of the box.
The biggest thing that swayed me to stick with (and optimize/customize) Prezto was the fact that most of the systems I work with have zsh, or a relatively modern version of it available in repos. Can't say the same for fish.
Sphax|10 years ago
Another thing is writing scripts and completions functions with fish, it's a way better experience than zsh. Writing completion stuff using zsh is really painful.
The preview with the autocompletion is really cool, but maybe you can have that with zsh too.
And then there's the speed, it's totally not objective but IIRC my prezto setup was quite a bit slower.
In the end I just really appreciate that I don't have to spend time customizing my shell: now I install fish on my VMs or servers, and everything is like I want it without me doing anything.
If you're happily using prezto you may not have much to gain from using fish, and you may not even like it since there's stuff from prezto you won't find out of the box.
jeffcox|10 years ago
ufo|10 years ago
http://fishshell.com/#get_fish_linux
distracteddev90|10 years ago
(edit: this was a reply to the post below.. not sure how I messed that up.. gah.. such a noob)