Like majority *nix users, I have been using bash for many years. Sometimes I feel uncomfortable with bash. I tried use some other shells as well such as ksh, tcsh and zsh which I am going to talk about. A few days ago, I found an open source project ranking in the 6th named oh-my-zsh on Github, I downloaded it and had a try with it. It's amazing. We should use zsh to replace bash now.Why do we need to use zsh?Here is a 4 minutes YouTube video which shows many reasons why we should switch from bash to zsh.Reason 0 : zsh is compatible with bashCompatible with bash means that we don't need to spe...

Takeaway: If you prefer to use vi or vim for command-line editing, you can configure shells to use vi key bindings instead of emacs-style key bindings. Here’s how. By default, most shells use emacs-style key bindings for command-line editing and modification. For users of vi or vim, however, you can instead configure shells to use vi key bindings instead. This is done by editing ~/.bashrc in the case of bash, or ~/.zshrc in zsh and adding:set -o viin bash, and the following for zsh:bindkey -vOnce you have saved either ~/.bashrc or ~/.zs...