Bash alternative
 

Is there a good alternative Bash shell? I saw something the other day that was suppose to speed up coding. I would especially like something whereby you can click on a position to begin your typing there.
Thanks.

Here are a couple of wikipedia articles where you can start researching the shell options you have...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_shell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compar...command_shells

Thanks!

You could try zsh

If you have trouble with bash its not your fault.

https://bashfailed.wordpress.com

There's dash which is bash lite I guess. And the default in debian. AKA /bin/sh is dash, not bash. But there's other shells too. And various "versions" of shells.

Can you be a bit more specific how this would speed up your coding?

I'm thinking that the shell has little to do with an editor, which is what I'm using when I'm coding.

Meanwhile certain accelerator keystrokes do work within the command line, and thus the shell, at least for me. Such as CTRL <left or right arrow>, or CTRL-a, CTRL-e.

Do you mean that you're typing long commands into the shell and wish this type of feature to help you be more efficient with the shell?

Have we noticed this original question is 3 years old??

The Z shell is recommended for power users, and Zsh with the oh-my-zsh framework on Github is the best!

Nice catch. Thanks grail.

It's good though, to resurrect some old topics. Who knows that there is some alternative to Bash already, Ultimate-Power-Bash-Shell. :)