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I like it as a convention that indicates at a glance whether something is a directory or just a regular file. Also, any shell can do case-insensitive completion for you. Fish does it out of the box.



I mean, fish isn't the only shell out there. Why bother installing another shell instead of just sticking with bash for normal navigation? Ah, sorry, classic distro discussion. Everyone has the freedom to choose whatever distros they prefer.


The message you replied to said "any shell can do case-insensitive completion for you", not that you should use fish.

Whether literally any shell can, I don't know. With zsh, bash and tcsh it is certainly possible.


I think fish was just an example that does it by default; if you want bash to do the same, just set

    set completion-ignore-case on
in your .inputrc




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