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Some nice features: 1) Advanced tab completion 2) History-based autocomplete (type and press up) 3) Optional cd (.. to go to parent directory) 4) Syntax hig
by jimmybot 17y ago
Some nice features:
1) Advanced tab completion
2) History-based autocomplete (type and press up)
3) Optional cd (.. to go to parent directory)
4) Syntax highlighting
5) Simplified and streamlined syntax
There's also an overview in the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_shell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_shell
And the author wrote an introductory article way back: http://lwn.net/Articles/136232/ http://lwn.net/Articles/136232/
- nuclear_eclipse 17y ago1) Advanced tab completion 2) History-based autocomplete (type and press up) 3) Optional cd (.. to go to parent directory) Zshell has these, although the second two might be options that need to be enabled (can't remember). I have both of them on my shell.
- durin42 17y agoYou do have to configure 2 and 3, but it's easy and well worth it.
- jamie_ca 17y agoThat's basically why I use fish after many years of zsh. zsh can probably do more, but I don't need to configure fish to get something useful that works the way I do. (The only config I've done on my current install are a bunch of aliases and a custom prompt)