Encouraged by a tweet, intrigued by the homepage, and this blog, I started playing around with the fish shell. Reading through the tutorial and documentation, I often felt that the right choices were done, even though sometimes a little brave (e. g. with changing && to ; and).

Often I found myself starting an extra vimdiff session while I am actually working in another vim session. Finally, I took the time to search for a solution and I came up with the following two lines in my .vimrc:

Since some weeks, I am almost completely using tig for my work with git repositories. It requires a unix shell and git to be installed (I have not tried to install it on windows) and I have found that the keyboard shortcuts need some tweaking.

The shortcuts are easy to remember and are particularly easy to use on a US layout keyboard (i. e., where |, {}, [], etc. are easily avaialble).

If you see strange symbols in iTerm when using vim, especially with the NERD Tree and Undo Tree, or in tig, a super fast and flexible curses-based git interface, or simply when typing non ASCII characters in iTerm, you might want to add this to your shell config file (e. g., ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, …):