Yes, fish is not bourne shell compatible and never will be. Fish is as the name (Friendly Interactive SHell) suggests an interactive shell. You should just se

Yes, fish is not bourne shell compatible and never will be. Fish is as the name (Friendly Interactive SHell) suggests an interactive shell. You should just set vim/emacs/whatever to use a bourne-compatible shell. It's one line of vim config: set shell=/bin/sh