zsh-abbr VS zsh-vi-mode

If you have trouble, open a GitHub issue https://github.com/olets/zsh-abbr/issues/new/choose

The abbreviations from Fish will expand the moment you hit space or execute the command. It's basically like an alias, but will expand. However this is not possible in Bash. Zsh itself does not support this, but there is an addon I am using for: https://github.com/olets/zsh-abbr

But you aren't limited to something OMZ specific. zsh-abbr is a manager for "abbreviations" (similar to auto-expanding aliases but with additional tools, and saving everything to a file which can be backed up). And there are zsh snippet managers… I haven't used any so can't speak to them; pet might be the most popular.

Something broke? Open an issue

Enhanced completion: Extend completion by syntax-aware completion, completion with quotes and parameter expansions in prefix texts, ambiguous candidate generation, etc. Also, menu-complete supports selection of candidates in menu (candidate list) by cursor keys, TAB and S-TAB. The feature auto-complete supports the automatic suggestion of completed texts as in fish and zsh-autosuggestions (with Bash 4.0+). The feature menu-filter integrates automatic filtering of candidates into menu completion (with Bash 4.0+). There are other functionalities such as dabbrev and sabbrev like zsh abbreviations or zsh-abbr.

I know. I have an addon for ZSH which mimics the Fish like abbreviations: https://github.com/olets/zsh-abbr

I am on ZSH and prefer abbreviations (with an addon to mimic Fish abbr), because the command will expand on typing and I change it before execution. Also it is then correctly logged as expanded version in the history. However, I also have a few aliases too:

And zsh-vi-mode

Thank you for your answer, I'm using zsh and zsh-vi-mode, and, at least in my experience, it works GREAT!

Here's a random endorsement: have you tried this improved vi-mode plugin for zsh? The built-in mode is good, but the plugin adds some of the commands that I missed. https://github.com/jeffreytse/zsh-vi-mode

My following recommendation does not address your original question, but you might be interested into it. Since a year or so I use a plugin for ZSH which enhances the vim like capabilities on the commandline: https://github.com/jeffreytse/zsh-vi-mode And additionally in normal mode vv will open up vim for editing this commandline and a :wq would go back with the updated line. Not using myself, but cool to have.

Vi mode was not enough for me, so I installed a ZSH plugin with extended Vim features: https://github.com/jeffreytse/zsh-vi-mode

Yeah, I can't imagine working without it. There's also a more feature-packed vi-mode (since the zsh vi-mode lacks some basic bindings).