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It's unfortunately on the one hand too beholden to POSIX shell behavior, while still being too different from mainline Bourne derivatives. I've tried it a few t
by jfb 14y ago
It's unfortunately on the one hand too beholden to POSIX shell behavior, while still being too different from mainline Bourne derivatives. I've tried it a few times, and the cognitive load is too extreme for my 20+ yrs of POSIX brain-damage to work around.
- sourpoi 14y agoI don't use fish for shell scripting, but I'm enjoying it as my primary environment after making these adjustments.. Status codes and argument lists: $status # replaces $? $argv # replaces $@ Aliases are just functions (configure your startup in ~/.config/fish/config.fish): # alias ls="ls -lrth" function lr; ls -lrth $argv; end For-loops are familiar: # for n in one two three; do echo $n; done for n in one two three; echo $n; end The lack of '!$' confounded my hard-wired fingers until I settled on Alt-u to avoid up-arrows (see /usr/share/fish/functions/fish_default_key_bindings.fish): bind \eu history-token-search-backward # replaces !$ bind \ei history-token-search-forward # bonus fun The remaining price for fish's pseudo-telepathic assistance is the occasional frustration with applications that rely on the value of a user's default shell (/etc/passwd).