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Re: Fish shell

#11

Post by distracteddev90 »

Sphax wrote: post #8

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.

Would you mind expanding on what fish does out-of-the-box that prezto neglects or hides behind configuration? I am in a similar boat as you and was just wondering what I had to look forward to as a prezto user.

Re: Fish shell

#13

Post by headwayoldest »

distracteddev90 wrote: post #11
Sphax wrote: post #8

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.

Would you mind expanding on what fish does out-of-the-box that prezto neglects or hides behind configuration? I am in a similar boat as you and was just wondering what I had to look forward to as a prezto user.

The biggest thing that swayed me to stick with (and optimize/customize) Prezto was the fact that most of the systems I work with have zsh, or a relatively modern version of it available in repos. Can't say the same for fish.

Re: Fish shell

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Post by WD-42 »

Fish is great. For those wondering what advantages is has over zsh+ohmyzsh, I can say is that by default it provides most the functionality you want without having to install/tweak anything. Git support is built in (you get a nice git prompt) there's syntax highlighting, amazing history completion, predictive commands, man page completions... and so on. To try it on linux, just install fish and then run "fish", to get back to to bash/zsh just "exit"

Only problem is it's not POSIX so there is some weirdness in command substitution, logical operators and stuff. So you still script in sh.

Re: Fish shell

#17

Post by ikeboy »

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.)

What does guake count as, then?

Re: Fish shell

#18

Post by distracteddev90 »

distracteddev90 wrote: post #11
Sphax wrote: post #8

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.

Would you mind expanding on what fish does out-of-the-box that prezto neglects or hides behind configuration? I am in a similar boat as you and was just wondering what I had to look forward to as a prezto user.

Hrmmmm good point. Not one that applies to me particularly since if I'm on a server then I'm usually only running pre-written .sh scripts.

(edit: this was a reply to the post below.. not sure how I messed that up.. gah.. such a noob)

Re: Fish shell

#19

Post by ori_b »

donatj wrote: post #14

Fish not being bash compliant was a deal breaker for me. I use zsh with https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting zsh fish like syntax hilighting and am much more happy.

The problem is that bash syntax for anything beyond the basics is awful and error prone. It's really hard to make significant progress while still being bash compliant.

Re: Fish shell

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Post by bentruyman »

distracteddev90 wrote: post #9

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?

I used Fish for about of year. But I ended up recently switching back to zsh. Stock Fish is far more useful than stock zsh. However, the community around zsh is far more active and I found that most of the functionality that Fish contains and zsh lacks that there are plugins to achieve the same effects.

I'd encourage you to check it out. The scripting language in Fish is the best I've ever used for a shell. But it's also incompatible with Bash/zsh.

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