Fish shell

#1

Post by Aloha » Mon, May 18, 2015, 7:42 PM UTC

Re: Fish shell

#2

Post by wodenokoto » Mon, May 18, 2015, 7:57 PM UTC

Looks interesting and great timing. I got super annoyed today when I saw that the latest version of gnome terminal in Ubuntu stopped supporting changing tab titles via the GUI.

Re: Fish shell

#3

Post by Karunamon » Mon, May 18, 2015, 7:58 PM UTC

wodenokoto wrote: post #2

Looks interesting and great timing. I got super annoyed today when I saw that the latest version of gnome terminal in Ubuntu stopped supporting changing tab titles via the GUI.

For crying out loud... another instance of the GNOME team's insistence that they know better than their users, no doubt.

Re: Fish shell

#4

Post by MindTooth » Mon, May 18, 2015, 8:02 PM UTC

Been using it for almost two years I guess. Find it really nice. Would one day love to be more able to script with it; adding more features for my own needs.

Give it a try at least :-)

Re: Fish shell

#5

Post by landr0id » Mon, May 18, 2015, 8:03 PM UTC

The autosuggestions looked pretty sweet! Here's something that enables similar functionality in zsh: https://github.com/tarruda/zsh-autosuggestions

Re: Fish shell

#6

Post by semi-extrinsic » Mon, May 18, 2015, 8:03 PM UTC

wodenokoto wrote: post #2

Looks interesting and great timing. I got super annoyed today when I saw that the latest version of gnome terminal in Ubuntu stopped supporting changing tab titles via the GUI.

The shell is completely independent of the terminal emulator. Fish is the former, while you're complaining about an example of the latter. (My recommendation for a terminal emulator would be urxvt with the tabbedex extension. YMMV.)

Re: Fish shell

#7

Post by cookiecaper » Mon, May 18, 2015, 8:04 PM UTC

Karunamon wrote: post #3

wodenokoto wrote: post #2

Looks interesting and great timing. I got super annoyed today when I saw that the latest version of gnome terminal in Ubuntu stopped supporting changing tab titles via the GUI.

For crying out loud... another instance of the GNOME team's insistence that they know better than their users, no doubt.

I was just thinking about how no one even pretends GNOME Shell is a serious contender any more. Sad that they've squandered their installed base so thoroughly.

Re: Fish shell

#8

Post by Sphax » Mon, May 18, 2015, 8:04 PM UTC

Fish is great. I've been using it for close to 3 months now, was using zsh with prezto before.

I find Fish to be simpler to use and more powerful by default. You can probably have a zsh or maybe even bash setup which does the same fish does, but I don't want to do that.

Re: Fish shell

#9

Post by distracteddev90 » Mon, May 18, 2015, 8:12 PM UTC

I can clearly see the difference between Fish and regular ol' bash, but struggling to see what value Fish adds above prezto/zsh. Could anyone help me out here?

Re: Fish shell

#10

Post by psibi » Mon, May 18, 2015, 8:12 PM UTC

semi-extrinsic wrote: post #6

wodenokoto wrote: post #2

Looks interesting and great timing. I got super annoyed today when I saw that the latest version of gnome terminal in Ubuntu stopped supporting changing tab titles via the GUI.

The shell is completely independent of the terminal emulator. Fish is the former, while you're complaining about an example of the latter. (My recommendation for a terminal emulator would be urxvt with the tabbedex extension. YMMV.)

I have seen many people recommending urxvt. What is the advantage of it compared to gnome-terminal ? The last time I tried it, it's default font size was too small and I didn't like the font. Does it take some fiddling (configuration etc) with urxvt to bring it a minimal usable state ?