I have a simple relationship with terminals and shells. I don't ask a lot from them, they in turn don't do too much for me.

I've been using bash all these years without caring that I'm using it. That's what success of a product means, to be ubiquitous like air that you don't know it exist.

The way I use terminals is done from within emacs, with bash as the default shell. The fact that it's operated in vim evil-mode makes the whole CLI experience awkward.

Few weeks back my coworkers were singing praises about z-shell. I knew about it for years but didn't bother. Apparently z-shell is so good that macOS make it their default shell.

I figure it's time to shake my toolset up and try some new toys. New toys make your work experience invigorating; just don't over do it or you'll be in a constant state of discomfort.

By now I've been using z-shell for about two weeks, along with oh-my-zsh plugins installed.

I probably didn't use it in the right way, because I haven't detected much differences from bash. It would've been different had I been a command line power user, because I would've demanded more from a shell.

So it feels like a case of not knowing what I don't know. Perhaps I should engage in being a power user.