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How do you go to the nth item of the directory stack? Even bash lets you do this: $ dirs -v 0 ~/baz 1 ~ 2 ~/bar 3 ~/foo 4 ~/spam Then "pushd +3" will take you to ~/foo. This hardly seems "opaque".
That's included, just the `~2` shortcut thing isn't.
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fish-shell/release-3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install fish
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Coming from ZSH, Fish is a shell that just worked out of the box for me. It did everything ZSH did but I didn't have to touch a single configuration file to make it work. With ZSH I was forced to find all the options I wanted enabled and tuned or had to resort oh-my-zsh or templates from others to get all the good stuff. Managing dotfiles across workstations and servers. With Fish about the only thing I do after inst…
”Fish is a shell that just worked out of the box for me” Same here. Fish’s configuration defaults are very well thought out and incredibly smooth. My config.fish is only nine lines.
>? as a glob (wildcard) is deprecated and will be removed in the future ( https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/4520 ) This surprised me, but maybe it's for the best. It got in my way more often than I used it. I'll still miss it.
I'm not sure how to feel about only now learning its indexes start at a [1] though (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
Love it otherwise.
In the end I switched back to zsh and enabled "zsh-autosuggestions", which gave me the thing I loved most about fish, without any of the parts that I didn't. There's also some other extensions I'd like to try that enhance history like "McFly" ( https://github.com/cantino/mcfly ), based on this previous zsh-histdb discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15041772
Apart from the other good stuff in this release, I think this will make a lot of things much easier: fish now supports && (like and), || (like or), and ! (like not), for better migration from POSIX-compliant shells
Though I've really grown toward the 'everything as a function' pattern that Fish is trying to do, this is definitely a step back in the right direction. I might even wish for `$()` to be supported as well to allow even better copy pastable oneliners from Bash.