After a long time I’m in a situation where I sometimes work on a temporary system without my individual setup. Now whenever I might add a new custom (nushell) command that abstracts the usage of CLI tools, I think about the loss of muscle memory/knowledge for these tools and how much time I waste looking them up without my individual setup. No, that’s not a huge amount of time, but just out of curiosity I’d like to know how I can minimize this problem as much as possible.
Do you have some tips and solutions to handle this dilemma? I try to shadow and wrap existing commands, whenever it’s possible, but that’s often not the case. Abbreviations in fish are optimal for this problem in some cases, but I don’t think going back to fish as my main shell for this single reason would be worth it.
What’s the nature of the temporary system?
I would consider; remote/temporary systems are not necessarily mine, or setup is not worth it given my concerns on it; There’s different options to install or configure existing shells, I could take my config with me; if it’s a temporary system maybe it’s based on a template that could be adjusted, or auto-setup scripts could be adjusted
It would depend on how much I use it, how much I miss my setup, or how irritated I get because of missing stuff, and considerations of whether it’s worth it (to me).
I’m someone who adjusts their environment to their needs and wants, moreso than other colleagues I see. Many people seem to simply accept existing environments and (to me) annoyances.
When I remote into servers, it’s not typically where I would use much Nushell functionality. Bash and vim is good enough for those things, with just a little bit of configuration. I don’t plan on installing it on work servers, but have recently thought I may install it on my own server for convenience.