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<h2>Thoughts on zsh</h2>
<h3>2025-06-22</h3>
<h4>do I need it?</h4>
<p>I kinda figured out that although youtubers attempt to make you feel a has-been if 
you don't use all the bells and whistles that come with zsh, that Bash does everything I need, and I can extend it if needed.</p>
<p>Minimalism might be my aim, but it's not a do of die mantra, even so zsh appears rather flash and with esoteric possibilies that I will never use.</p>
<p>I'm also keeping my bash scripts, there seems to be little point in making them reliant on some other shell.</p>
<p>There are also a number of things that can improve your bash "experience" like Blesh - <a href="https://github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh">Bash Line Editor</a></p>
<p>So I'm sticking to Bash for now.</p>
<p>Edit: after adding blesh I found that Midnight Commander (mc) took a few seconds to start, I fixed it with an alias:</p>
<code>alias mc="mc --nosubshell"</code>
<p>Re-Edit: sometimes typing in the termnal was non responsive, I got annoyed after a while and removed Blesh from .bashrc</p>
<p>Turns out simple is best, who would have thought it?</p>
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