Zsh

UPDATE: See the end of this post for a discussion on new revisions. Every Professional Computer Toucher has a just-so way they want their environment. When I was but a wee lad, that environment consisted of Windows XP with various arcane registry tweaks applied (I vaguely recall changing my TCP congestion control algorithm to Westwood solely because of Red Alert 2), and Notepad. Things improve with age. My current environment is a non-Retina Macbook Air, which suits me just fine. *nix OS, with homebrew filling in the gaps. I use Atom (once you get past the abysmal load time, it’s basically Sublime Text), and iTerm2 with zsh. You may note in a previous post that I extolled the virtues of fish. Well, I got tired of its lack of POSIX compatibility, and having to rewrite every script I downloaded. I toyed with the idea of writing a fish-to-zsh transpiler, but decided the better option was to make zsh like fish. ...