Re:Why Create a New Unix Shell?
by djsumdog on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @04:33PM
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I messed around with oil earlier this week when I saw this posted elsewhere and I've been a fish user for about 4 years now.
I'll have to give yours a spin too. I'm glad there's a lot of shell innovation right now. I'm all for breaking posix shell standards and creating things that are way more usable. Fish's prompt customization, functions, highlighting, completion and searching are pretty amazing.
I realize a lot of these little projects will come and go. No matter what, they're great learning tools for the creators/developers, exploring what it takes to make an interactive shell.
Still, I hope we see more stuff like fish come out (and make no mistake, fish took a lot of years and a lot of devs. In the early days my instance would crash every once in a while in ways I couldn't easily reproduce). It's great that we're finally getting away from the traditional bash/zsh/ksh stuff and into newer shells that make coding and navigation easier.
Re:Why Create a New Unix Shell?
by laumars on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @05:21PM
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Thank you and you're absolutely right about the process of creating a shell being a great learning tool! I've learned so much writing murex - even some stuff that I assumed I knew I quickly discovered my understanding wasn't quite right.
I'll have to give yours a spin too. I'm glad there's a lot of shell innovation right now. I'm all for breaking posix shell standards and creating things that are way more usable. Fish's prompt customization, functions, highlighting, completion and searching are pretty amazing.
I realize a lot of these little projects will come and go. No matter what, they're great learning tools for the creators/developers, exploring what it takes to make an interactive shell.
Still, I hope we see more stuff like fish come out (and make no mistake, fish took a lot of years and a lot of devs. In the early days my instance would crash every once in a while in ways I couldn't easily reproduce). It's great that we're finally getting away from the traditional bash/zsh/ksh stuff and into newer shells that make coding and navigation easier.