z VS fish-shell

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z fish-shell
46 320
16,048 24,551
- 0.7%
3.9 9.9
about 2 months ago 6 days ago
Shell Rust
Do What The F*ck You Want To Public License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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z

Posts with mentions or reviews of z. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-17.
  • Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Apr 2024
    - Visidata

    - z (https://github.com/rupa/z)

    - fzf

    - vim

    - Fastmail

    - WireGuard

    - draw.io

    - PowerShell (it’s difficult to overstate how much PS has improved Windows system administration)

    - Microsoft PowerToys

    - WSL (alternating joy and extreme frustration)

    - Home Assistant

    - Airfoil

  • Z – Jump Around
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jan 2024
  • Cdpath: Easily Navigate Directories in the Terminal
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Dec 2023
    For even more power use z

    https://github.com/rupa/z

  • Ask HN: Share a shell script you like
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Aug 2023
    - quickly jump to recent directory: https://github.com/rupa/z - however I find it kinda annoying it seems to forget/ignore(?) directories, anyone know of a better version of this?

    - quickly opening my personal wiki: https://github.com/francium/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/.local/...

    - re-run a script when a file changes: https://github.com/francium/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/.local/...

    For `while-watchdo` you, you run it like `while-watchdo "echo hi"`, then in my editor, I have a custom shortcut that does `touch .watchfile` causing the command, in this case `echo hi` to run. I prefer this to tools that retrigger commands as soon as you save _any_ file. Also works in docker containers, edit a file on host, command runs in a container.

  • Use Linux they said
    3 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 2 Jun 2023
    2) Well friend, this is where you can have the best of both of worlds. You can just open the file explorer via the CLI. Typically you'll have the xdg-open command that opens the directory in your default file browser. I have that aliased to xdgo. So you can navigate quickly to where you need to be, and then open it visually with xdgo . . There's also other really convenient navigation tools like z (https://github.com/rupa/z) that I can't imagine going without anymore.
  • Describe your Personal Development Environment
    5 projects | /r/neovim | 14 Mar 2023
    I would like to know how you use the terminal and nvim in your daily workflow. Here is mine: I have a shortcut (with raycast) to open alacritty full screen from anywhere. I open alacritty and start the tmux (create work and personal sessions). Then using z navigate to the desired project. Next, I have a bash script pde that opens nvim, and 2 terminal splits below. Nvim opens with alpha-nvim (startify theme). For file explorer I use lir.nvim. Fuzzy finding using fzf-lua. I have harpoon but don't use it very often, instead, I manage buffers with fzf-lua and vim-bbye. When working on multiple files I usually have 2-4 vsplits. I do git stuff mostly using vim-fugitive (gv.vim, resetting hunks with gitsigns.nvim), occasionally git commands from another tmux window. I use auto-save.nvim. My most used command is :F (lsp.bug.format). For movements I use Ctrl+D/U/O/I/, sometimes relative line jumping. Other often movements [q,]q (quickfix jumps), [d,]d (diagnostics jumps), [c,]c (Gitsigns hunks). Alacritty + Neovim view
  • My favorite bash shortcuts in 2023
    6 projects | dev.to | 13 Mar 2023
    For general filesystem navigation in my terminal, I'm using z command. But for finer control, I am using the following commands.
  • What "nice-to-have" CLI tools do you know?
    33 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 14 Feb 2023
    z
  • bashrc inspiration - your favorit trick
    7 projects | /r/bash | 30 Dec 2022
    Do you know about the program z? https://github.com/rupa/z
  • What “thing” did you discover/create saves you a good amount of time in your work as a developer?
    1 project | /r/webdev | 24 Nov 2022
    https://github.com/rupa/z is an awesome command to teleport to your most used directories. It's really handy to jump from a project to another.

fish-shell

Posts with mentions or reviews of fish-shell. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-22.
  • FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor – via a project dev
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2024
    Reminds of the note at the bottom of Fish's releases. It's there because the build system cannot determine the current version for some reason. Hopefully that will go away now that they have switched to a different language / build system. The custom tarball is used by Arch Linux at the very least.

    https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/tag/3.7.1

    https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/7772#issueco...

    https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/fi...

  • Oh My Zsh
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2024
  • Proposal for porting fish-shell from C++ to Rust
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2024
  • Converting the Kernel to C++
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jan 2024
    A recent practical example of the former: the fish shell re-wrote incrementally from C++ to Rust, and is almost finished https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/discussions/10123

    An example of the latter: c2rust, which is a work in progress but is very impressive https://github.com/immunant/c2rust

    It currently translates into unsafe Rust, but the strategy is to separate the "compile C to unsafe Rust" steps and the "compile unsafe Rust to safe Rust" steps. As I see it, as it makes the overall task simpler, allows for more user freedom, and makes the latter potentially useful even for non-transpiled code. https://immunant.com/blog/2023/03/lifting/

  • Fish shell 3.7.0: last release branch before the full Rust rewrite
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jan 2024
    And this discussion from November has an update on the progress: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/discussions/10123
  • Day 5 - More or less...
    3 projects | /r/linuxupskillchallenge | 7 Dec 2023
    We're using bash as our terminal shell for now (it is standard in many distros) but it is not the only one out there. If you want to test out zsh, fish or oh-my-zsh, you will see that there are a few differences and the features are usually the main differentiator. Try that, poke around.
  • Fish – Update on the Rust Port
    1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 28 Nov 2023
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 28 Nov 2023
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2023
    They have a variety of reasons to move to rust, as outlined in their original rust discussion[1]. Mostly around finding other contributors, and adding an async/parallel mode they're comfortable with.

    [1] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512

  • Devuan アップグレード: 4 から 5 Daedalus へ
    3 projects | dev.to | 4 Sep 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing z and fish-shell you can also consider the following projects:

zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

autojump - A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line

starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

nushell - A new type of shell

enhancd - :rocket: A next-generation cd command with your interactive filter

oh-my-fish - The Fish Shell Framework

fasd - Command-line productivity booster, offers quick access to files and directories, inspired by autojump, z and v.

xonsh - :shell: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell.

zsh-z - Jump quickly to directories that you have visited "frecently." A native Zsh port of z.sh with added features.

tokyonight.nvim - 🏙 A clean, dark Neovim theme written in Lua, with support for lsp, treesitter and lots of plugins. Includes additional themes for Kitty, Alacritty, iTerm and Fish.