fish shell

#1

Post by atldev » Fri, Aug 16, 2013, 3:24 PM UTC

fish shell
fishshell.com

Re: fish shell

#2

Post by atldev » Fri, Aug 16, 2013, 3:26 PM UTC

See it in action here: http://youtu.be/MVw8N3hTfCI?t=56s

Re: fish shell

#3

Post by 9ac345a5509a » Fri, Aug 16, 2013, 3:37 PM UTC

Previous discussions:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5723235
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5567639
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4073162

Re: fish shell

#4

Post by matthewlehner » Fri, Aug 16, 2013, 3:50 PM UTC

I like the features it has, but every time someone post a link to fish shell, I wonder why I would switch from bash or zsh. Will this really be THAT MUCH BETTER? Will I just run into weird errors? Is it totally sh compliant? These are important things to know and should be on the homepage.

Re: fish shell

#5

Post by jfb » Fri, Aug 16, 2013, 3:55 PM UTC

matthewlehner wrote: post #4

I like the features it has, but every time someone post a link to fish shell, I wonder why I would switch from bash or zsh. Will this really be THAT MUCH BETTER? Will I just run into weird errors? Is it totally sh compliant? These are important things to know and should be on the homepage.

The thing that's stalled me out from using fish before is that it's different enough from the Bourne shell that it seriously interrupts my day to day usage; but it's TOO similar, with the horrible shell semantics. So it's never really been worth it to me.

Re: fish shell

#6

Post by stevelosh » Fri, Aug 16, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC

I've been using fish for a while now. Overall it's pretty great.

Here's my fish config if you want to see an example: https://bitbucket.org/sjl/dotfiles/src/tip/fish/config.fish

Re: fish shell

#7

Post by hrkristian » Fri, Aug 16, 2013, 3:59 PM UTC

I like auto-complete in web-browsers, but I can't see a single use for it in my terminals. After all, what Linux-user hasn't automated their terminal input to some degree? Nah, I'll stick with my [TAB]...

Re: fish shell

#8

Post by fjcaetano » Fri, Aug 16, 2013, 4:06 PM UTC

Why is this interesting when we have zsh?

https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh?source=cc

Re: fish shell

#9

Post by tuananh » Fri, Aug 16, 2013, 4:17 PM UTC

the developer should provider a converter tool to convert .bashrc/.zshrc to fish config

Re: fish shell

#10

Post by frewsxcv » Fri, Aug 16, 2013, 4:17 PM UTC

fjcaetano wrote: post #8

Why is this interesting when we have zsh? https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh?source=cc

zsh is really just fancy bash. fish feels like a brand new shell, and in my opinion, what a shell should be