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fish should come as the default shell in OS X: http://fishshell.org/screenshots.html http://fishshell.org/screenshots.html It's more user friendly and interac

fish should come as the default shell in OS X: http://fishshell.org/screenshots.html http://fishshell.org/screenshots.html It's more user friendly and interactive.

Dobbs 16y ago
Possibly but at the same time most people who will be using the terminal at all on Mac are the same people who have been using the terminal on linux. For people that have been using the terminal on linux Bash is more user friendly (it is what they already know).
- div 16y ago
  By that logic, windows is more user friendly then OSX because it is what people already know. Most of the stuff you would use in bash just works in fish as well, except that fish gives you nice help information when tabcompleting, a better command history that you can use filters on, colour feedback (red = invalid command, green is a-okay) and lots more. Sure, some people will always stick to what they know, but that does not say as much about user friendliness as it does about resistance to change.
div 16y ago
An interesting github project I recently discovered on github has some nice fish extensions, it's called fish-nuggets and you can find it here: http://github.com/zmalltalker/fish-nuggets/ http://github.com/zmalltalker/fish-nuggets/ Here's a pic of it showing branch@revision status for svn repositories: http://tweetphoto.com/29802557 http://tweetphoto.com/29802557 It does the same for git repositories as well and some other nice stuff.
- kree10 16y ago
  See also zsh, another great shell that gets little attention. Recent versions of zsh (though not the version that ships with OS X) have a feature called vcs_info that will pull information from git, svn, cvs, hg, darcs, bzr (& more) for use in your prompt. http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2008/msg00842.html http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2008/msg00842.html

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fish should come as the default shell in OS X: http://fishshell.org/screenshots.html http://fishshell.org/screenshots.html It's more user friendly and interac

by amichail 16y ago

fish should come as the default shell in OS X: http://fishshell.org/screenshots.html http://fishshell.org/screenshots.html It's more user friendly and interactive.

Dobbs 16y ago
Possibly but at the same time most people who will be using the terminal at all on Mac are the same people who have been using the terminal on linux. For people that have been using the terminal on linux Bash is more user friendly (it is what they already know).
- div 16y ago
  By that logic, windows is more user friendly then OSX because it is what people already know. Most of the stuff you would use in bash just works in fish as well, except that fish gives you nice help information when tabcompleting, a better command history that you can use filters on, colour feedback (red = invalid command, green is a-okay) and lots more. Sure, some people will always stick to what they know, but that does not say as much about user friendliness as it does about resistance to change.
div 16y ago
An interesting github project I recently discovered on github has some nice fish extensions, it's called fish-nuggets and you can find it here: http://github.com/zmalltalker/fish-nuggets/ http://github.com/zmalltalker/fish-nuggets/ Here's a pic of it showing branch@revision status for svn repositories: http://tweetphoto.com/29802557 http://tweetphoto.com/29802557 It does the same for git repositories as well and some other nice stuff.
- kree10 16y ago
  See also zsh, another great shell that gets little attention. Recent versions of zsh (though not the version that ships with OS X) have a feature called vcs_info that will pull information from git, svn, cvs, hg, darcs, bzr (& more) for use in your prompt. http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2008/msg00842.html http://www.zsh.org/mla/users/2008/msg00842.html