This is an older article. It seams to list a few ways that Fish attempts to improve on older shells, but appears to be a little out of date. Fish has a nice de

This is an older article. It seams to list a few ways that Fish attempts to improve on older shells, but appears to be a little out of date. Fish has a nice design document that gtive a better understanding of what it is about: http://fishshell.org/user_doc/design.html http://fishshell.org/user_doc/design.html Fish's real advantages isn't so much it's list of features, but the fact that they come pre-configured. That, and the fact that Fish sacrafices backwards compatiblity with other shells to make a cleaner command language and a more manageable environment. I like being able to configure an environment variable without tinkering with my .bashrc or .profile. Granted, I can't easily reasonably install it on the solaris machines at work, but it doesn't make my home computing environment much nicer.