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Re: fish shell

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Post by eblume »

stevelosh wrote: post #6

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

For someone calling fish 'pretty great' I sure see a lot of angst towards fish in that config file! Thanks for the post though.

Re: fish shell

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Post by Symmetry »

appplemac wrote: post #17

One of my favourite features: a single configuration file. No more .bashrc and .bash_profile . However, it seems like Fish is not fully POSIX-compatible, therefore you can face weird problems in Vim plugins, for example.

I just leave bash as my system shell and just configure my terminal emulator to start with fish.

Re: fish shell

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Post by eblume »

dfc wrote: post #19
AlexMax wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am a year-or-two-old fishshell convert who is reasonably well versed in bash and tried using zsh and bash with a big .bashrc. A few things stand out to me as huge pluses: - It has a lot of cool functionality out of the box such as highlighting, smarter autocomplete (type in a partial word at the prompt and hit up instead of the cumbersome bash ctrl r/s history prompt that loves to beep at you), directory history (a…

Do you know anyone with a 10k .bashrc?

I know people with well more than that, particularly when you factor in 'oh my zsh' and its ilk.

Re: fish shell

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Post by patrickg »

I have been using fish for a few months exclusively on my Mac. I really miss a few bashisms: mostly pressing esc-. inserts the last part of the last command. I have not changed the shell on my server, somehow I am afraid of breaking things... (bad shell scripts that don't have correct shebang line).

Re: fish shell

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Post by ryanwatkins »

patrickg wrote: post #24

I have been using fish for a few months exclusively on my Mac. I really miss a few bashisms: mostly pressing esc-. inserts the last part of the last command. I have not changed the shell on my server, somehow I am afraid of breaking things... (bad shell scripts that don't have correct shebang line).

esc-. is my biggest miss as well. There are discussions on this but still havent been able to fix it on osx in iterm2 myself. Did get option-. to work for now but esc-. has 20+ years of pure reflex action burned into my brain.

Re: fish shell

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Post by dfc »

eblume wrote: post #23
dfc wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know anyone with a 10k .bashrc?

I know people with well more than that, particularly when you factor in 'oh my zsh' and its ilk.

I am not sure I would include oh-my-zsh as someone's personal zshrc. Moreover I thought OP had made a distinction between bash (10k) and zsh (1k) so I am not sure how o-m-z counts as a bashrc? I will take your word for it but I cant imagine what people put in there bashrc to get to 10k. The entire bash-it repository is 8,588 and over a third of it is bash completions which seems to duplicate the majority of what is already provided by bash-completion. And I am not sure that bash-completion is really "my .bashrc."

  $ cd bash-it
  $ sloccount ./ 
  ...SNIP...
  SLOC    Directory       SLOC-by-Language (Sorted)
  3198    completion      sh=3198
  3168    plugins         sh=3168
  1081    themes          sh=1081
  748     lib             sh=748
  242     aliases         sh=242
  135     top_dir         sh=135
  16      template        sh=16
  0       custom          (none)


  Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):
  sh:            8588 (100.00%)
Are there some big bashrc customizations that I might be overlooking?

edited to reflect distinction between parent and grandparent comment

Re: fish shell

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Post by qznc »

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.

It is NOT totally sh compliant. Intentionally.

Re: fish shell

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Post by ilaksh »

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.

Take a look at the concept of status quo bias.

What I do is spawn fish at the end of my .zshrc that way I can just exit if I run into something that doesn't work with fish.

The biggest plus for me is that the default auto complete in fish is twice as smart as the other ones.

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