Does fish still not have reverse search? I have a hard time taking a shell seriously if you can't perform an operation at least as good as this. Even Powershell supports reverse search!
In bash, I can type ctrl+r then type a few characters, and the last command that contains that string will get pulled up and I can hit [enter] to run it.
Not sure if fish has this or not, but I use reverse search in bash exhaustively.
I find it to be more polished and especially like the way it works with fragments (e.g. if you start typing "git log" and hit Option/Alt-ꜛ it will find commands prefixed with that whereas bash Control-R requires you to hit Control-R first and then type that, which isn't as handy when you realize you want to search halfway through).
That separate mode is incremental search and it's a big advantage. It lets you keep extending the search string until it matches the command you're looking for.
