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I use fish (http://fishshell.com/ http://fishshell.com/), and it's amazing. However, they're missing the most important feature from their front page: Syntax hi
by mhansen 14y ago
I use fish (http://fishshell.com/ http://fishshell.com/), and it's amazing. However, they're missing the most important feature from their front page: Syntax highlighting!
Valid executables are colored green, as you type.
Invalid commands are red, as you type.
Valid files are underlined, as you type.
Like the carpenter who can feels the feedback of the grain of the wood through the handle of his plane can adjust his technique as he planes, fish shell lets me 'feel' the programs and files I'm working with through the shell.
And that makes me happy.
- StavrosK 14y agoI stopped using fish a while ago, when it would crash whenever I opened a console session (so I couldn't do anything when X didn't start). I switched to zsh with fish emulation, but lately I realized I have a shell that takes much longer to start up and basically does everything fish does, and nothing more. If fishfish is more stable, I'll switch in a heartbeat.
- div 14y agoI'd been using fish for a year or two before switching to zsh too. The main reason for me to give it up is because I could not get it to work smoothly with rvm. I've gotten quite used to zsh by now, and I have to say, I don't feel much for having another go at fish just to run into the same limitations again.
- msluyter 14y agoI just downloaded it and while it looks awesome, I see the rvm problem. I haven't used zsh but I'm assuming from your comment that zsh is compatible with RVM. Seems like it shouldn't be too hard to write a fish version of the script that sets up your rvm environment, but if you've gone down that path and it proved too painful I won't bother. However, perhaps fish + rbenv works. Has anyone tried that?
- roryokane 14y agoYes, I switched from rvm to rbenv because rvm didn’t work with fish. rbenv did work with fish. I switched away from fish after that because go (a directory-jumping tool) required bash to install (http://code.google.com/p/go-tool/wiki/InstallNotes http://code.google.com/p/go-tool/wiki/InstallNotes). I didn’t know how to port that bash code to fish, since I don’t know bash scripting, and I also anticipated that I would keep finding cool programs that didn’t work with fish.
- hei_zen 14y agoJust add those two files listed here (https://github.com/eventualbuddha/fish-nuggets/commit/186775c746dd86cd94900269ee89e0c75e1db9d8 https://github.com/eventualbuddha/fish-nuggets/commit/186775...) to ~/.config/fish/functions, and everything should work out just fine.
- Freaky 14y ago> I stopped using fish a while ago, when it would crash whenever I opened a console session (so I couldn't do anything when X didn't start) This is why I launch my interactive shell from a failsafe /bin/sh instead of using chsh. If zsh ever messes up horribly, I end up back in a good old bog standard shell prompt.
- graywh 14y agoI was just wondering how you accomplish that.
- Freaky 14y agoI put this at the end of my ~/.profile: REALSHELLS="/usr/local/bin/zsh /usr/bin/zsh" for REALSHELL in $REALSHELLS; do if [ -e $REALSHELL ]; then if ! $REALSHELL -l; then echo "$REALSHELL exit $?" fi echo "$SHELL exit in 1s, Ctrl-C to abort" sleep 1 && exit fi done echo "No shells in [$REALSHELLS] found, falling back to $SHELL"
- uggedal 14y agozsh has a plugin for fish-style syntax highlighting: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting
- tessellated 14y ago~ git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git Cloning into zsh-syntax-highlighting... warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout. :(