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		triceratops on Sept 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: New Features in the Fish Shell It lacks "ctrl+r" because it does history search even better than bash. It shows auto-suggestions based on your history. I find ctrl+r when I'm in bash kind of annoying, and not as good at searching.

thrwyoilarticle on Sept 30, 2020 [–]

And bash lets you accidentally screw up the history, because it's editable by default, and just weird ^p/^n behaviour

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