Customizing Your Shell

Re:Customizing Your Shell by RMPR on Friday April 17, 2020 @10:18AM (#22899165)

What makes me reluctant to use fish is the fact that it's syntax is totally incompatible with bash and zsh.

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Re:Customizing Your Shell by t0astbread on Friday April 17, 2020 @11:11AM (#22899674)

I use fish but only interactively. For scripts I still use bash. The amount of fish-specific syntax I use interactively (and, string interpolation etc.) is so small, it doesn't really bother me.

Addendum: I did write my entire prompt (which is 81 lines right now) in fish (my rationale was "maybe it's better performance-wise"), which was hell and I hated it but that's the only piece of fish code I've ever written.

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Re:Customizing Your Shell by fokinsean on Friday April 17, 2020 @10:54AM (#22899472)

Same, I used fish for about a month. I really liked all of it's out of the box features. I reverted back to zsh when everything I googled had to be fish specific and it felt like I was spending more time trying to make bash/zsh instructions work with fish.

I do miss the flag suggestions that would autofill.

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Re:Customizing Your Shell by SAI_Peregrinus on Friday April 17, 2020 @11:45AM (#22900021)

https://github.com/edc/bass

Lets you use bash utilities from fish. So you can do things like `source` files and have it work.

Also I prefer to use Fish only as an interactive shell, actual scripts can stay bash.

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Re:Customizing Your Shell by dontdieych on Friday April 17, 2020 @11:42AM (#22899986)

you dont need to learn fish syntax for interactive use. basics are almost same.

when you met some sh code on random internet,

  - sh(bash) -c "..."
  - type bash enter then paste it
  - save to file + shebang

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