Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting things

Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by Beltalowda on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:13AM (#33355105)

I personally really dislike fish as an interactive shell as it's just so busy. Things keep popping up, everything is in so many different colours, etc. It's great if you like that sort of stuff, but I really appreciate a "quiet" environment. This is also why I use Vim: all the IDEs I tried are just so "busy".

I was only talking about scripting; I know fish scripting is different, but I have no idea if it's any good. For interactive shells I don't care what people use: it's 100% a personal choice.

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by monknomo on Thursday October 27, 2022 @11:08AM (#33358684)

if you want `fish_config` opens up an easy editor for changing all the colors to whatever you find quiet and soothing.

You have a level of control over things popping up too

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by Beltalowda on Thursday October 27, 2022 @11:36AM (#33359179)

Quite a few things can't be disabled; for example AFAIK it doesn't offer a way to disable the autocomplete altogether, or the "fuzzy" matching. I really dislike these things. Fish is a great shell, but very opinionated which is great if your preferences align with that, and not-so-great if they don't. Which is fine because it makes the project better for those who do want these things, and not every project needs to cater to everyone.

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Re:Shell Script Best Practices, from a decade of scripting t... by travisjungroth on Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:26PM (#33364271)

This comment is so reasonable I’m getting a contact high of pragmatism.

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