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build_tools git version generation fixes 2013-09-02 20:08:46 +08:00
doc_src add -O and -G to test command 2013-08-25 15:54:06 -07:00
etc Stomp exit status of initialization scripts so that fish starts out with $status 0 2013-04-09 23:48:03 -07:00
fish.xcodeproj Move FISH_BUILD_VERSION from osx/config.h to the pbxproj so that we can build with the generated config.h 2013-08-17 15:46:33 -07:00
osx Move FISH_BUILD_VERSION from osx/config.h to the pbxproj so that we can build with the generated config.h 2013-08-17 15:46:33 -07:00
po remove trialing spaces #2 2010-09-18 10:18:26 +08:00
share add __fish_urlencode function which URL-escapes stdin 2013-09-04 20:30:42 +02:00
tests Initial work towards various IO cleanups with an eye to fixing https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/110 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: mark most scripts in build_tools as not for export 2013-08-11 23:13:38 +08:00
.gitignore Ignore executable files 2013-08-12 09:58:45 +03:00
autoload.cpp Make subcommands modify $status, and make builtin_set not modify status unless it fails 2013-01-31 15:57:08 -08:00
autoload.h forward-word should accept a word of an autosuggestion 2012-12-10 16:23:08 -08:00
builtin_commandline.cpp Fix a sign warning 2013-04-03 18:27:18 -07:00
builtin_complete.cpp Break out COMPLETE_NO_CASE and COMPLETE_REPLACES_TOKEN into separate flags, in preparation for upcoming fuzzy completion work 2013-03-05 20:54:16 -08:00
builtin_jobs.cpp Fix indentation of switch statements 2012-11-19 00:31:03 -08:00
builtin_printf.cpp Merge pull request #915 from GlitchMr/fix-printf 2013-07-19 00:17:37 -07:00
builtin_set_color.cpp Prevent fish dying if setupterm() fails in builtin_set_color() 2013-05-13 01:35:57 -07:00
builtin_set.cpp print_variables should use ellipsis_char instead of literal ellipsis 2013-04-19 10:24:33 -07:00
builtin_test.cpp use wstat in test command to follow symbolic link 2013-08-25 15:54:06 -07:00
builtin_ulimit.cpp Fix indentation of switch statements 2012-11-19 00:31:03 -08:00
builtin.cpp Deprecate "." command. Fixes #310. 2013-08-14 18:43:09 +03:00
builtin.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
CHANGELOG Remove trailing whitespaces and change tabs to spaces 2012-11-18 11:23:22 +01:00
color.cpp First stab at builtin set_color. Moved set_color.cpp to builtin_set_color.cpp and taught fish about it. 2013-02-14 15:52:24 -08:00
color.h First stab at builtin set_color. Moved set_color.cpp to builtin_set_color.cpp and taught fish about it. 2013-02-14 15:52:24 -08:00
common.cpp Fix for crash when setting tmux pane title 2013-06-02 01:50:22 -07:00
common.h Formatting 2013-06-02 01:14:26 -07:00
complete.cpp Adjust prefix completions to sort alphabetically instead of by length. 2013-08-31 15:01:02 -07:00
complete.h Adjust prefix completions to sort alphabetically instead of by length. 2013-08-31 15:01:02 -07:00
config.guess Update to latest config.sub and config.guess versions 2006-03-02 02:28:21 +10:00
config.sub Update to latest config.sub and config.guess versions 2006-03-02 02:28:21 +10:00
configure.ac Try to improve the error message printed when libcurses is not found 2013-08-31 15:08:51 -07:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Rename STYLEGUIDE.md to CONTRIBUTING.md, so GitHub would notice it. 2013-07-28 20:49:38 +02:00
create_wajig_completions.py Add the file that generated the wajig completions to the tree. This should not be installed but it should be included with the tarball. The file was written by Reuben Thomas. 2006-11-04 00:26:45 +10:00
Doxyfile remove trialing spaces #2 2010-09-18 10:18:26 +08:00
Doxyfile.help Made autoconf stop generating Doxyfile.help in preparation for Xcode documentation build phase 2012-12-26 23:48:11 -08:00
Doxyfile.user remove trialing spaces #2 2010-09-18 10:18:26 +08:00
env_universal_common.cpp Large set of changes to how PATH is handled. Changed fish to no longer modify PATH in share/config.fish. Introduced variable fish_user_paths, and a glue function __fish_reconstruct_path that splices together PATH with fish_user_paths. Changed fish to no longer validate changes to PATH unless the paths are new (i.e. don't recheck what's already there). Modified certain sets to store const wchar_t instead of wcstring to save a few allocations. 2013-02-19 18:05:20 -08:00
env_universal_common.h Large set of changes to how PATH is handled. Changed fish to no longer modify PATH in share/config.fish. Introduced variable fish_user_paths, and a glue function __fish_reconstruct_path that splices together PATH with fish_user_paths. Changed fish to no longer validate changes to PATH unless the paths are new (i.e. don't recheck what's already there). Modified certain sets to store const wchar_t instead of wcstring to save a few allocations. 2013-02-19 18:05:20 -08:00
env_universal.cpp Mark stdin as nonblocking if we get EWOULDBLOCK, and before handing it off to child processes when either starting them or moving them to the foreground. 2013-04-07 12:40:08 -07:00
env_universal.h Clean up env_var_table_t. Switch from storing var_uni_entry_t* to var_uni_entry_t. Various other cleanups. 2013-02-11 23:16:50 -08:00
env.cpp Stop insisting on trying to add /usr/bin and /bin to $PATH. 2013-08-27 18:23:33 -07:00
env.h Rely on $PWD instead of getcwd() more often 2013-04-27 00:45:38 -07:00
event.cpp Reduce compiled code size a bit 2013-04-13 02:00:31 -07:00
event.h Formatting and style updates 2013-05-05 02:33:17 -07:00
exec.cpp Fix a C++11 compile error with clang. 2013-08-25 00:45:43 -07:00
exec.h Big fat refactoring of how redirections work. In fish 1.x and 2.0.0, the redirections for a process were flattened into a big list associated with the job, so there was no way to tell which redirections applied to each process. Each process therefore got all the redirections associated with the job. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/877 for how this could manifest. 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
expand.cpp Adjust prefix completions to sort alphabetically instead of by length. 2013-08-31 15:01:02 -07:00
expand.h Initial abbreviation work. Tests currently fail. 2013-07-19 12:41:34 -07:00
fallback.cpp Fix for failing to weak link wcsncasecmp - binary dies on SnowLeopard 2013-05-16 19:45:47 -07:00
fallback.h Fix for failing to weak link wcsncasecmp - binary dies on SnowLeopard 2013-05-16 19:45:47 -07:00
fish_indent.cpp Generate version numbers dynamically 2013-08-11 23:13:38 +08:00
fish_pager.cpp Generate version numbers dynamically 2013-08-11 23:13:38 +08:00
fish_tests.cpp Add a fancy new paths_are_equivalent function to test for equivalent 2013-08-27 18:26:22 -07:00
fish.cpp Deprecate "." command. Fixes #310. 2013-08-14 18:43:09 +03:00
fish.spec.in Remove xsel from the build 2013-03-30 00:13:44 -07:00
fishd.cpp Remove problems with fishd under Cygwin. 2013-08-12 20:19:51 +03:00
function.cpp reference'ize event.cpp/h 2012-12-20 16:13:14 +01:00
function.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
highlight.cpp Highlight incorrect use of command or exec 2013-07-27 14:57:16 +02:00
highlight.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
history.cpp Formatting and style updates 2013-05-05 02:33:17 -07:00
history.h Large set of changes to improve history atomicity on filesystems that do not support locking 2013-04-27 15:21:14 -07:00
input_common.cpp Formatting and style updates 2013-05-05 02:33:17 -07:00
input_common.h Use the new input_common_add_callback mechanism to not execute callbacks while signals are blocked. Should fix https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/608 2013-04-03 17:26:02 -07:00
input.cpp transpose-words 2013-06-02 00:59:22 -07:00
input.h transpose-words 2013-06-02 00:59:22 -07:00
install-sh remove trialing spaces #2 2010-09-18 10:18:26 +08:00
intern.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
intern.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
io.cpp Big fat refactoring of how redirections work. In fish 1.x and 2.0.0, the redirections for a process were flattened into a big list associated with the job, so there was no way to tell which redirections applied to each process. Each process therefore got all the redirections associated with the job. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/877 for how this could manifest. 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
io.h Fix the build on OS X Mavericks 2013-08-21 14:41:12 -07:00
iothread.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
iothread.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
key_reader.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
kill.cpp Fix the build (oops) 2013-03-29 18:05:01 -07:00
kill.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
lru.h Fix for build errors with g++ 4.0.1 2012-12-11 13:18:40 -08:00
Makefile.in docs: don't remove/rebuild share/man if we don't have doxygen 2013-09-02 13:07:31 +08:00
mimedb.cpp Generate version numbers dynamically 2013-08-11 23:13:38 +08:00
mimedb.h Add header guards to the header files. 2005-10-05 01:11:39 +10:00
output.cpp Kill termio.h and sys/termios.h 2013-03-05 12:25:00 -08:00
output.h First stab at builtin set_color. Moved set_color.cpp to builtin_set_color.cpp and taught fish about it. 2013-02-14 15:52:24 -08:00
parse_util.cpp Next stab at abbreviations. Highlighting should work. 2013-07-19 12:41:35 -07:00
parse_util.h Make parse_util_locate_cmdsubst return the innermost command substitution instead of the outermost. 2013-07-17 01:35:30 -07:00
parser_keywords.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
parser_keywords.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
parser.cpp Big fat refactoring of how redirections work. In fish 1.x and 2.0.0, the redirections for a process were flattened into a big list associated with the job, so there was no way to tell which redirections applied to each process. Each process therefore got all the redirections associated with the job. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/877 for how this could manifest. 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
parser.h Big fat refactoring of how redirections work. In fish 1.x and 2.0.0, the redirections for a process were flattened into a big list associated with the job, so there was no way to tell which redirections applied to each process. Each process therefore got all the redirections associated with the job. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/877 for how this could manifest. 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
path.cpp Adjust prefix completions to sort alphabetically instead of by length. 2013-08-31 15:01:02 -07:00
path.h Add a fancy new paths_are_equivalent function to test for equivalent 2013-08-27 18:26:22 -07:00
postfork.cpp Big fat refactoring of how redirections work. In fish 1.x and 2.0.0, the redirections for a process were flattened into a big list associated with the job, so there was no way to tell which redirections applied to each process. Each process therefore got all the redirections associated with the job. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/877 for how this could manifest. 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
postfork.h Big fat refactoring of how redirections work. In fish 1.x and 2.0.0, the redirections for a process were flattened into a big list associated with the job, so there was no way to tell which redirections applied to each process. Each process therefore got all the redirections associated with the job. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/877 for how this could manifest. 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
print_help.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
print_help.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
proc.cpp Big fat refactoring of how redirections work. In fish 1.x and 2.0.0, the redirections for a process were flattened into a big list associated with the job, so there was no way to tell which redirections applied to each process. Each process therefore got all the redirections associated with the job. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/877 for how this could manifest. 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
proc.h Big fat refactoring of how redirections work. In fish 1.x and 2.0.0, the redirections for a process were flattened into a big list associated with the job, so there was no way to tell which redirections applied to each process. Each process therefore got all the redirections associated with the job. See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/877 for how this could manifest. 2013-08-19 18:06:24 -07:00
reader.cpp Adjust prefix completions to sort alphabetically instead of by length. 2013-08-31 15:01:02 -07:00
reader.h Initial abbreviation work. Tests currently fail. 2013-07-19 12:41:34 -07:00
README.md Replace IRC link with WebChat link 2013-08-30 18:12:50 +02:00
release_notes.html Release notes for fish 2.0 2013-05-15 01:02:55 -07:00
sanity.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
sanity.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
screen.cpp Include the autosuggestion in history if it was truncated 2013-08-20 20:08:56 -07:00
screen.h Include the autosuggestion in history if it was truncated 2013-08-20 20:08:56 -07:00
signal.cpp Fix for issue where history file would be read immediately on launch 2012-12-04 16:00:35 -08:00
signal.h Fix for issue where history file would be read immediately on launch 2012-12-04 16:00:35 -08:00
tokenizer.cpp Formatting 2012-12-22 12:21:31 -08:00
tokenizer.h Formatting 2012-12-22 12:21:31 -08:00
user_doc.head.html Re-point some URLs at the fish homepage fishshell.com 2012-12-27 02:17:14 -08:00
util.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
util.h Hack around xdm's dumb assumption that the login shell is POSIX compliant so we no longer kill OpenSUSE 2013-01-04 13:09:01 -08:00
wgetopt.cpp Fix bad error message for certain options. 2013-08-26 21:10:19 -07:00
wgetopt.h Re-point some URLs at the fish homepage fishshell.com 2012-12-27 02:17:14 -08:00
wildcard.cpp Formatting 2013-06-02 01:14:26 -07:00
wildcard.h Support for fuzzy completions 2013-05-25 15:41:18 -07:00
wutil.cpp Use strerror in uClibc, which doesn't have sys_errlist 2013-05-25 13:42:16 -07:00
wutil.h Mark stdin as nonblocking if we get EWOULDBLOCK, and before handing it off to child processes when either starting them or moving them to the foreground. 2013-04-07 12:40:08 -07:00
xdgmime.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
xdgmime.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
xdgmimealias.cpp Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
xdgmimealias.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
xdgmimeglob.cpp Fix indentation of switch statements 2012-11-19 00:31:03 -08:00
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xdgmimeint.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
xdgmimemagic.cpp Fix warning about realloc in xdgmimemagic 2013-02-16 13:17:43 -08:00
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fish - the friendly interactive shell

fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for OS X, Linux, and the rest of the family. fish includes features like syntax highlighting, autosuggest-as-you-type, and fancy tab completions that just work, with no configuration required.

For more on fish's design philosophy, see the design document.

Quick Start

fish generally works like other shells, like bash or zsh. A few important differences can be found at http://fishshell.com/tutorial.html by searching for magic phrase 'unlike other shells'.

Detailed user documentation is available by running help within fish, and also at http://fishshell.com/docs/2.0/index.html

Building

fish is written in a sane subset of C++98, with a few components from C++TR1. It builds successfully with g++ 4.2 or later, and with clang. It also will build as C++11.

fish can be built using autotools or Xcode.

Autotools Build

autoconf
./configure
make [gmake on BSD]
sudo make install

Xcode Development Build

  • Build the base target in Xcode
  • Run the fish executable, for example, in DerivedData/fish/Build/Products/Debug/base/bin/fish

Xcode Build and Install

xcodebuild install
sudo ditto /tmp/fish.dst /

Help, it didn't build!

If fish reports that it could not find curses, try installing a curses development package and build again.

On Debian or Ubuntu you want:

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

on RedHat, CentOS, or Amazon EC2:

sudo yum install ncurses-devel

Packages for Linux

Nightly builds for several Linux distros can be downloaded from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/siteshwar/

Switching to fish

If you wish to use fish as your default shell, use the following command:

chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish

chsh will prompt you for your password, and change your default shell.

To switch your default shell back, you can run:

chsh -s /bin/bash

Substitute /bin/bash with /bin/tcsh or /bin/zsh as appropriate.

Contact Us

Questions, comments, rants and raves can be posted to the official fish mailing list at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users or join us on our IRC channel #fish at irc.oftc.net.

Found a bug? Have an awesome idea? Please open an issue on this github page.