Fair enough. I'm all for having the program do some intelligent prompting of the user, as long as it doesn't become annoying (like Microsoft's "Clippy" :-D).

Fair enough. I'm all for having the program do some intelligent prompting of the user, as long as it doesn't become annoying (like Microsoft's "Clippy" :-D). There is a sweet spot with most software between being buried in a sea of options and having no options you can configure at all. I tend to gravitate toward having a sensible set of defaults and letting the user configure them otherwise if they want. Having options grouped together can be good too (like keybindings -- vim vs emacs style bindings for example). I also like the idea of customization through functions/scripting rather than just giving the user a choice between N options. That's another area where a set of sensible defaults can be good -- defaults in that case, which can be programmed around. BTW, thanks for responding here. Always nice to get feedback from the developers of a piece of software directly. I really haven't looked at fish for years (though I'm certain I checked it out a while back). I'll give it another look to see if there's something there to catch my interest. Sorry I didn't see your response until today, I was busy the last couple of days and just got back to it.