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ridiculousfish d1feb9bcbf Use scoped_push to save and restore real_io
Fixes a dangling pointer
2015-01-07 16:41:16 -08:00
build_tools Don't require .git before running git-describe 2014-10-27 15:46:22 -07:00
doc_src test: note that the square bracket form is available 2014-12-28 19:03:26 +08:00
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 Update fish_indent Xcode build target 2014-12-23 16:16:37 -08:00
osx osx/config.h: add some missed defines 2014-12-21 23:40:46 +08:00
po Added Chinese translation. 2014-11-27 14:19:03 +08:00
share Add more expository comments to eval, and remove a useless parameter 2015-01-07 14:56:41 -08:00
tests Add tests to verify pipes do not conflict with fd redirections 2015-01-04 14:18:06 -08:00
.gitattributes Merge branch 'master' into documentation-update 2014-09-07 16:37:31 +01:00
.gitignore Ignore xccheckout files 2015-01-04 13:46:03 -08:00
.travis.yml Dump interactive logs on travis test failure 2014-09-19 14:52:02 -07:00
autoload.cpp Make C_ (gettext used in completions) return wcstring 2014-10-30 18:52:37 -07:00
autoload.h Run restyle.sh to enforce style rules. 2014-03-31 10:01:39 -07:00
builtin_commandline.cpp Clean up some memory allocation in builtin_commandline 2014-10-30 18:52:37 -07:00
builtin_complete.cpp complete: recognise -w short option for --wraps 2014-11-04 23:33:31 +08:00
builtin_jobs.cpp Fix indentation 2014-06-07 23:27:06 -07:00
builtin_printf.cpp Support wide characters in printf %c 2014-09-21 23:22:43 -07:00
builtin_set_color.cpp use configure to define NOMACROS 2014-12-21 23:38:02 +08:00
builtin_set.cpp Update various strings for translation, avoid _ for non-translations 2014-11-25 15:37:30 +08:00
builtin_test.cpp Fix some warnings in Linux build 2014-05-31 13:46:28 -07:00
builtin_ulimit.cpp Remove my_wcswidth() in favor of fish_wcswidth() 2014-09-25 18:04:11 -07:00
builtin.cpp Use scoped_push to save and restore real_io 2015-01-07 16:41:16 -08:00
builtin.h Support for command wrapping ("aliases") 2014-08-15 18:14:36 -07:00
CHANGELOG Remove trailing whitespaces and change tabs to spaces 2012-11-18 11:23:22 +01:00
color.cpp Solaris build fixes: use memset instead of bzero 2014-12-21 23:38:03 +08:00
color.h Further support for term24bit. Teach output.cpp what to do with it. 2014-09-19 18:45:04 -07:00
common.cpp Solaris build fixes: use memset instead of bzero 2014-12-21 23:38:03 +08:00
common.h Fix to swallow BOMs in sourced files 2014-11-01 16:25:28 -07:00
complete.cpp Fix issue where tab completions could ignore command-specific completions 2014-11-20 11:12:19 -08:00
complete.h Don't suggest non-directories when tab completing cd 2014-10-31 10:44:32 -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 Solaris build fixes: use _sys_errs if available 2014-12-21 23:38:09 +08:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Rename STYLEGUIDE.md to CONTRIBUTING.md, so GitHub would notice it. 2013-07-28 20:49:38 +02:00
COPYING Move LICENSE to COPYING and update text. 2014-10-24 17:40:35 +08:00
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 CLANG options, for portability 2014-09-04 11:58:01 +01:00
Doxyfile.help Remove CLANG options, for portability 2014-09-04 11:58:01 +01:00
Doxyfile.user Remove CLANG options, for portability 2014-09-04 11:58:01 +01:00
env_universal_common.cpp Mark libnotify FDs as CLO_EXEC 2015-01-04 01:21:23 -08:00
env_universal_common.h Replace some std::string with wcstring to reduce copying 2014-11-10 00:06:43 -08:00
env.cpp use configure to define NOMACROS 2014-12-21 23:38:02 +08:00
env.h Add new functions flag -V/--inherit-variable 2014-10-02 18:41:39 -07:00
event.cpp Rename events and simplify signal event handling 2014-12-29 00:38:11 -08:00
event.h Formatting and style updates 2013-05-05 02:33:17 -07:00
exec.cpp Add more expository comments to eval, and remove a useless parameter 2015-01-07 14:56:41 -08:00
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 expand: expand tilde to canonical paths 2014-10-26 08:50:28 +08:00
expand.h Remove EXPAND_SKIP_PROCESS, which did not actually work 2014-10-15 12:43:06 -07:00
fallback.cpp use configure to define NOMACROS 2014-12-21 23:38:02 +08:00
fallback.h Remove del_curterm workaround on *BSD. 2014-12-08 08:01:03 +08:00
fish_indent.cpp Close <code> before <pre> in fish_indent 2014-12-24 14:17:06 -08:00
fish_tests.cpp Hack the tokenizer to compress multiple adjacent newlines into one 2014-11-24 01:23:42 -08:00
fish_version.cpp Shorten compilation times 2014-05-01 09:46:27 +02:00
fish_version.h Shorten compilation times 2014-05-01 09:46:27 +02:00
fish.cpp Fix 3rd arg to PROCESS_EXIT event for %self 2014-10-27 17:23:08 -07:00
fish.pc.in fish.pc: add pkgconfig file for fish 2014-10-01 22:15:24 +08:00
function.cpp Add new functions flag -V/--inherit-variable 2014-10-02 18:41:39 -07:00
function.h Add new functions flag -V/--inherit-variable 2014-10-02 18:41:39 -07:00
highlight.cpp Teach the highlighter about multiple adjacent square bracket expansions 2014-09-30 11:15:22 -07:00
highlight.h Merge branch 'master' into 1218_rebase 2014-03-29 14:19:45 -07:00
history.cpp Fix tests on FreeBSD 2014-11-01 23:57:12 -07:00
history.h Remove a bunch of dead code identified by cppcheck 2014-10-31 01:15:50 -07:00
input_common.cpp No need for mbstate_t to be static 2014-09-21 20:47:03 -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 use configure to define NOMACROS 2014-12-21 23:38:02 +08:00
input.h Rework mode handling of bind 2014-09-22 21:04:06 -07:00
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 use configure to define NOMACROS 2014-12-21 23:38:02 +08:00
io.h Remove the close_old field from io_fd_t, which is never actually 2014-04-16 15:31:28 -07:00
iothread.cpp Fix intermittent crash in iothread.cpp 2014-09-19 17:01:47 -07:00
iothread.h Initial work on strategy_named_pipe universal notifier. 2014-05-04 15:06:40 -07:00
key_reader.cpp Squelch some more warnings on Linux 2014-04-27 18:27:34 -07:00
kill.cpp Make escape() return a wcstring 2014-09-25 18:20:03 -07:00
kill.h Apply new indentation, brace, and whitespace style 2012-11-18 16:30:30 -08:00
lexicon_filter.in Tweak lexicon_filter.in for GNU sed 2014-10-01 18:19:38 -07:00
lru.h Add empty virtual destructor for lru_node_t. 2014-09-24 16:37:32 +02:00
Makefile.in Rewrite of fish_indent 2014-12-23 15:32:01 -08:00
mimedb.cpp Fixes use-after-free issue. 2014-07-06 20:54:19 -07:00
mimedb.h Add header guards to the header files. 2005-10-05 01:11:39 +10:00
output.cpp use configure to define NOMACROS 2014-12-21 23:38:02 +08:00
output.h Include fallback.h in output.h to avoid a compile error 2014-12-23 12:02:09 -08:00
pager.cpp Remove "squeezing" code in pager 2014-11-09 13:08:09 -08:00
pager.h Remove a bunch of dead code identified by cppcheck 2014-10-31 01:15:50 -07:00
parse_constants.h Rewrite of fish_indent 2014-12-23 15:32:01 -08:00
parse_execution.cpp Disallow backgrounding in conditionals and before and/or bool statements 2014-11-02 13:11:27 -08:00
parse_execution.h Don't stop job execution on wildcard errors 2014-10-13 18:51:51 -07:00
parse_productions.cpp Run restyle.sh to enforce style rules. 2014-03-31 10:01:39 -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 Tweak comment handling. Mark a parse node with a new flag when it has comments 2014-12-23 10:58:45 -08:00
parse_tree.h Tweak comment handling. Mark a parse node with a new flag when it has comments 2014-12-23 10:58:45 -08:00
parse_util.cpp Disallow backgrounding in conditionals and before and/or bool statements 2014-11-02 13:11:27 -08:00
parse_util.h Allow parse_util_detect_errors to treat incomplete strings as errors 2014-07-24 14:41:15 -07:00
parser_keywords.cpp Remove a bunch of dead code identified by cppcheck 2014-10-31 01:15:50 -07:00
parser_keywords.h Remove a bunch of dead code identified by cppcheck 2014-10-31 01:15:50 -07:00
parser.cpp Stop blocking signals within job_promote 2014-12-29 00:56:27 -08:00
parser.h Remove a bunch of dead code identified by cppcheck 2014-10-31 01:15:50 -07:00
path.cpp Remove a bunch of dead code identified by cppcheck 2014-10-31 01:15:50 -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 Minor cleanup of redirection functions 2014-04-11 09:50:12 -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 Remove useless signal-checking loop in job_continue 2014-12-29 01:04:13 -08:00
proc.h Clean up some job status messages 2014-11-03 10:56:16 -08:00
reader.cpp use configure to define NOMACROS 2014-12-21 23:38:02 +08:00
reader.h New -n option for read builtin 2014-09-03 22:48:37 -07:00
README.md README.md: document minimum Doxygen version 2014-09-12 21:35:20 +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 use configure to define NOMACROS 2014-12-21 23:38:02 +08:00
screen.h Run restyle.sh to enforce style rules. 2014-03-31 10:01:39 -07:00
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 Clean up the last token when receiving TOK_END 2014-12-23 11:22:54 -08:00
tokenizer.h Fix for issue where fish_indent would lose blank lines 2014-11-25 10:43:03 -08:00
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
wcstringutil.cpp Implement new read --null flag 2014-09-21 19:27:26 -07:00
wcstringutil.h Implement new read --null flag 2014-09-21 19:27:26 -07:00
wgetopt.cpp Properly handle invalid arguments in builtins 2014-07-02 17:04:58 +05:30
wgetopt.h Re-point some URLs at the fish homepage fishshell.com 2012-12-27 02:17:14 -08:00
wildcard.cpp Revert "Prepend ./ to "flag-like file" wildcard expansions and completions" 2014-09-25 22:18:36 -07:00
wildcard.h Revert "Prepend ./ to "flag-like file" wildcard expansions and completions" 2014-09-25 22:18:36 -07:00
wutil.cpp Solaris build fixes: use _sys_errs if available 2014-12-21 23:38:09 +08:00
wutil.h Remove a bunch of dead code identified by cppcheck 2014-10-31 01:15:50 -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/docs/current/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/current/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 1.8.7 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 build-essential ncurses-dev libncurses5-dev gettext

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.