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build_tools Pass --always to git describe to ensure we always get a version 2014-02-05 16:20:09 -08:00
doc_src Incorporate a modified UTF8 <-> wchar_t implementation from Alexey 2014-03-22 23:46:58 -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 Stop linking iconv, now that we have our own utf8 conversion routines 2014-03-23 13:29:57 -07:00
osx Space and time optimizations for parse_node_t. Reduced size from 48 2014-03-25 20:06:34 -07:00
po translations: update new strings, convert all to UTF-8 2014-03-13 21:56:04 +08:00
share Fixed appearance of ssh hostnames with [] in them 2014-03-29 11:46:45 +01:00
tests Implement status -n (line number) with new parser 2014-03-01 16:04:13 -08:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: mark most scripts in build_tools as not for export 2013-08-11 23:13:38 +08:00
.gitignore Remove old pager remnants, including documentation and references in the 2014-03-15 14:24:05 -07:00
.travis.yml .travis.yml: reduce verbosity of IRC notifications 2014-02-11 09:47:29 +08:00
autoload.cpp Fixed various Undefined Behavior occurrences. 2014-03-07 18:28:16 +01:00
autoload.h Optimize some fast paths in autoload loading. Use an iterator to avoid 2014-02-24 13:06:54 -08:00
builtin_commandline.cpp Fixed various Undefined Behavior occurrences. 2014-03-07 18:28:16 +01:00
builtin_complete.cpp Rewrite parser_t::test_args and parser_t::eval_args to use new parser 2014-03-20 21:32:02 -07:00
builtin_jobs.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
builtin_printf.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
builtin_set_color.cpp Make set_color fail silently if there is no argument (reintroducing 2014-03-27 13:46:33 -07:00
builtin_set.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
builtin_test.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
builtin_ulimit.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
builtin.cpp Teach parse_util_detect_errors to report invalid builtins, as found in 2014-03-26 18:20:38 -07:00
builtin.h Fix line number reporting in new parser 2014-03-20 21:32:02 -07:00
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 line number reporting in new parser 2014-03-20 21:32:02 -07:00
common.h Fix line number reporting in new parser 2014-03-20 21:32:02 -07:00
complete.cpp Excise use of parser_t's error() functionality. Thread a 2014-03-21 17:13:33 -07:00
complete.h Remove old fish_pager source and implementation 2014-03-15 14:00:18 -07:00
config.guess Update to latest config.sub and config.guess versions 2013-09-22 15:57:52 +08:00
config.sub Update to latest config.sub and config.guess versions 2013-09-22 15:57:52 +08:00
configure.ac configure/Makefile: remove unused $LIBS and $LDFLAGS complications 2014-03-30 13:11:41 +08:00
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 Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -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 Naive reimplementation of utf2wcs and wcs2utf in 2014-03-23 13:06:24 -07:00
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 Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
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 Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
env.h Rely on $PWD instead of getcwd() more often 2013-04-27 00:45:38 -07:00
event.cpp Fixed various Undefined Behavior occurrences. 2014-03-07 18:28:16 +01:00
event.h Formatting and style updates 2013-05-05 02:33:17 -07:00
exec.cpp Fix line number reporting in new parser 2014-03-20 21:32:02 -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 Excise use of parser_t's error() functionality. Thread a 2014-03-21 17:13:33 -07:00
expand.h Excise use of parser_t's error() functionality. Thread a 2014-03-21 17:13:33 -07:00
fallback.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
fallback.h Fix for failing to weak link wcsncasecmp - binary dies on SnowLeopard 2013-05-16 19:45:47 -07:00
fish_indent.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
fish_tests.cpp Allow appending path hints to history items after they have been added, 2014-03-28 23:22:03 -07:00
fish.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
fishd.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
function.cpp Fix line number reporting in new parser 2014-03-20 21:32:02 -07:00
function.h Fix line number reporting in new parser 2014-03-20 21:32:02 -07:00
highlight.cpp Fix switch statement syntax highlighting so that the arguemnt to switch 2014-03-28 17:09:08 -07:00
highlight.h Equip syntax highlighting with a variant that does no disk I/O. Invoke 2014-03-26 18:49:09 -07:00
history.cpp Allow appending path hints to history items after they have been added, 2014-03-28 23:22:03 -07:00
history.h Allow appending path hints to history items after they have been added, 2014-03-28 23:22:03 -07:00
input_common.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
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 Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
input.h Test and fix issue where, if binding X is a prefix of binding Y, and X 2014-02-12 12:52:31 -08:00
install-sh Update to newer install-sh version 2013-09-22 17:51:48 +08:00
intern.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
intern.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
io.cpp Remove support for input IO_BUFFERs, which were only used by fish_pager 2014-03-15 19:49:55 -07:00
io.h Remove support for input IO_BUFFERs, which were only used by fish_pager 2014-03-15 19:49:55 -07:00
iothread.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
iothread.h Allow autosuggestions to do job expansion. Fixes 2013-11-29 13:34:03 -08:00
key_reader.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
kill.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
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 configure/Makefile: remove unused $LIBS and $LDFLAGS complications 2014-03-30 13:11:41 +08:00
mimedb.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
mimedb.h Add header guards to the header files. 2005-10-05 01:11:39 +10:00
output.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -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
pager.cpp Remove old pager remnants, including documentation and references in the 2014-03-15 14:24:05 -07:00
pager.h Allow double-tapping tab to fully disclose pager, per #291 2014-02-20 13:30:26 -08:00
parse_constants.h Teach parser_t how to parse an argument list that contains newlines, for 2014-03-27 11:17:05 -07:00
parse_execution.cpp Fix switch statement syntax highlighting so that the arguemnt to switch 2014-03-28 17:09:08 -07:00
parse_execution.h Excise use of parser_t's error() functionality. Thread a 2014-03-21 17:13:33 -07:00
parse_productions.cpp Fix switch statement syntax highlighting so that the arguemnt to switch 2014-03-28 17:09:08 -07:00
parse_productions.h Bringup of function definitions, switch statements with new parser 2013-12-27 03:58:42 -08:00
parse_tree.cpp Fix initially backgrounded jobs. Fixes #1373 2014-03-28 14:39:47 -07:00
parse_tree.h Fix switch statement syntax highlighting so that the arguemnt to switch 2014-03-28 17:09:08 -07:00
parse_util.cpp Teach parse_util_detect_errors to report invalid builtins, as found in 2014-03-26 18:20:38 -07:00
parse_util.h Remove additional dead code from old parser 2014-03-20 21:32:03 -07:00
parser_keywords.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
parser_keywords.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
parser.cpp Teach parser_t how to parse an argument list that contains newlines, for 2014-03-27 11:17:05 -07:00
parser.h Remove unused err_buff variable from parser_t 2014-03-22 01:04:49 -07:00
path.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
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 Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
print_help.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
proc.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
proc.h Update style and formatting to conform to fish style guide. 2014-01-15 01:40:40 -08:00
reader.cpp Allow appending path hints to history items after they have been added, 2014-03-28 23:22:03 -07:00
reader.h Remove the reader_selected_completion_changed callback. Fix a hang when 2014-02-16 19:59:00 -08:00
README.md README.md: document build and runtime dependencies even better. 2014-03-10 10:09:52 +08:00
release_notes.html Release notes for fish 2.0 2013-05-15 01:02:55 -07:00
sanity.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
sanity.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
screen.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
screen.h Increased support for completion search field. Use btab (shift-tab) to 2014-01-27 00:56:13 -08:00
signal.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -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 Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
tokenizer.h Fix issues related to redirections and block level IO with new parser 2013-12-28 16:18:38 -08:00
user_doc.head.html Fix to enable momentum scrolling on iOS in new documentation 2013-10-15 12:45:33 -07:00
utf8.cpp Included missing stdint.h header in utf8.cpp 2014-03-23 15:09:43 +05:30
utf8.h Naive reimplementation of utf2wcs and wcs2utf in 2014-03-23 13:06:24 -07:00
util.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -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 Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
wgetopt.h Re-point some URLs at the fish homepage fishshell.com 2012-12-27 02:17:14 -08:00
wildcard.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
wildcard.h Support for fuzzy completions 2013-05-25 15:41:18 -07:00
wutil.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
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 Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
xdgmime.h Update Free Software Foundation address. 2013-12-13 21:51:52 +01:00
xdgmimealias.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
xdgmimealias.h Update Free Software Foundation address. 2013-12-13 21:51:52 +01:00
xdgmimeglob.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
xdgmimeglob.h Update Free Software Foundation address. 2013-12-13 21:51:52 +01:00
xdgmimeint.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
xdgmimeint.h Update Free Software Foundation address. 2013-12-13 21:51:52 +01:00
xdgmimemagic.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
xdgmimemagic.h Update Free Software Foundation address. 2013-12-13 21:51:52 +01:00
xdgmimeparent.cpp Revert "Merge pull request #1317 from pullreq/cpp" 2014-02-28 02:16:48 -08:00
xdgmimeparent.h Update Free Software Foundation address. 2013-12-13 21:51:52 +01:00

fish - the friendly interactive shell Build Status

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 the 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. autoconf 2.60 or later is required.

fish depends on a curses implementation, such as ncurses. The headers and libraries are required for building.

fish requires gettext for translation support.

Building the documentation requires Doxygen 1.5 or newer.

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

Runtime Dependencies

fish requires a curses implementation, such as ncurses, to run.

fish requires a number of utilities to operate, which should be present on any Unix, GNU/Linux or OS X system. These include (but are not limited to) hostname, grep, awk, sed, which, and getopt. fish also requires the bc program.

Translation support requires the gettext program.

Some optional features of fish, such as the manual page completion parser and the web configuration tool, require Python.

In order to generate completions from man pages compressed with either lzma or xz, you may need to install an extra Python package. Python versions prior to 2.6 are not supported. For Python versions 2.6 to 3.2 you need to install the module backports.lzma. How to install it depends on your system and how you installed Python. Most Linux distributions should include it as a package named backports-lzma (or similar). From version 3.3 onwards, Python already includes the required module.

Packages for Linux

Instructions on how to find builds for several Linux distros are at https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/wiki/Nightly-builds

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.