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Re:The fish shell is amazing by ayushnix on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:00AM (#29348860)
Umm, you don't need to define your PATH variable in `config.fish`, not unless you make it your default login and user shell.

You should keep using bash as your default login and user shell, define your environment variables, like PATH, in your `.bashrc`/`.bash_profile` but use fish as the default shell of your terminal emulator. In that case, fish should pick up the PATH from bash.

Re:The fish shell is amazing by xkgt on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @02:20AM (#29389782)
That addresses only the part of setting up PATH variable. Some init scripts go beyond that and have additional code embedded in them (see sdkman, pyenv). These needs separate init scripts for fish users. Just a cursory look at github issues can show how prevalent this issue is:

https://github.com/search?q=fish+support&type=issues

Re:The fish shell is amazing by ayushnix on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @07:17AM (#29391308)
Python venv works fine with fish shell for me. But yeah, this is something that'll always be an issue with fish simply because bash is more widely used.

Unlike what some people may think, it's not just about the tool itself but its ecosystem as well.