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`fish <https://fishshell.com/>`__ - the friendly interactive shell |Build Status| |Cirrus CI|
README: fix rst syntax
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fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for macOS, 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.
README: Link to fishshell.com instead of the design docs. First tell people what it is instead
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For downloads, screenshots and more, go to https://fishshell.com/.
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Quick Start
-----------
fish generally works like other shells, like bash or zsh. A few
important differences can be found at
https://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 https://fishshell.com/docs/current/index.html
Getting fish
------------
macOS
~~~~~
fish can be installed:
- using `Homebrew <http://brew.sh/>`__: ``brew install fish``
- using `MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/>`__:
``sudo port install fish``
- using the `installer from fishshell.com <https://fishshell.com/>`__
- as a `standalone app from fishshell.com <https://fishshell.com/>`__
README: Note the minimum supported macOS version
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Note: The minimum supported macOS version is 10.10 "Yosemite".
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Packages for Linux
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Packages for Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux/CentOS are available from the `openSUSE Build
Service <https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=shells%3Afish&package=fish>`__.
Packages for Ubuntu are available from the `fish
PPA <https://launchpad.net/~fish-shell/+archive/ubuntu/release-3>`__,
and can be installed using the following commands:
::
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fish-shell/release-3
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sudo apt update
sudo apt install fish
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Instructions for other distributions may be found at
`fishshell.com <https://fishshell.com>`__.
Windows
~~~~~~~
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- On Windows 10/11, fish can be installed under the WSL Windows Subsystem
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for Linux with the instructions for the appropriate distribution
listed above under “Packages for Linux”, or from source with the
instructions below.
README: updates for Rust / 4.0
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- fish (4.0 on and onwards) cannot be installed in Cygwin, due to a lack of Rust support.
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Building from source
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If packages are not available for your platform, GPG-signed tarballs are
available from `fishshell.com <https://fishshell.com/>`__ and
`fish-shell on
GitHub <https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases>`__. See the
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`Building <#building>`__ section for instructions.
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Running fish
------------
Once installed, run ``fish`` from your current shell to try fish out!
Dependencies
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Running fish requires:
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- A terminfo database, typically from curses or ncurses (preinstalled on most \*nix systems) - this needs to be the directory tree format, not the "hashed" database.
If this is unavailable, fish uses an included xterm-256color definition.
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- some common \*nix system utilities (currently ``mktemp``), in
addition to the basic POSIX utilities (``cat``, ``cut``, ``dirname``,
Open command script in external editor on Alt+o Fish functions are great for configuring fish but they don't integrate seamlessly with the rest of the system. For tasks that can run outside fish, writing scripts is the natural approach. To edit my scripts I frequently run $EDITOR (which my-script) Would be great to reduce the amount typing for this common case (the names of editor and scripts are usually short, so that's a lot of typing spent on the boring part). Our Alt+o binding opens the file at the cursor in a pager. When the cursor is in command position, it doesn't do anything (unless the command is actually a valid file path). Let's make it open the resolved file path in an editor. In future, we should teach this binding to delegate to "funced" upon seeing a function instead of a script. I didn't do it yet because funced prints messages, so it will mess with the commandline rendering if used from a binding. (The fact that funced encourages overwriting functions that ship with fish is worrysome. Also I'm not sure why funced doesn't open the function's source file directly (if not sourced from stdin). Persisting the function should probably be the default.) Alternative approach: I think other shells expand "=my-script" to "/path/to/my-script". That is certainly an option -- if we do that we'd want to teach fish to complete command names after "=". Since I don't remember scenarios where I care about the full path of a script beyond opening it in my editor, I didn't look further into this. Closes #10266
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``file``, ``ls``, ``mkdir``, ``mkfifo``, ``rm``, ``sort``, ``tee``, ``tr``,
README: remove redundant mention of sed dependency
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``uname`` and ``sed`` at least, but the full coreutils plus ``find`` and
``awk`` is preferred)
README: The gettext command is no longer required `_` is now a proper builtin, so we don't spuriously call out to gettext.
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- The gettext library, if compiled with
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translation support
The following optional features also have specific requirements:
- builtin commands that have the ``--help`` option or print usage
README: Remove ul dependency No longer used
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messages require ``nroff`` or ``mandoc`` for
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display
README/CHANGELOG: make Python requirements consistent [ci skip]
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- automated completion generation from manual pages requires Python 3.5+
- the ``fish_config`` web configuration tool requires Python 3.5+ and a web browser
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- system clipboard integration (with the default Ctrl-V and Ctrl-X
bindings) require either the ``xsel``, ``xclip``,
``wl-copy``/``wl-paste`` or ``pbcopy``/``pbpaste`` utilities
- full completions for ``yarn`` and ``npm`` require the
``all-the-package-names`` NPM module
README: improve note on colorls
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- ``colorls`` is used, if installed, to add color when running ``ls`` on platforms
that do not have color support (such as OpenBSD)
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Building
--------
.. _dependencies-1:
Dependencies
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Document installable builds
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Compiling fish requires:
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README: updates for Rust / 4.0
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- Rust (version 1.70 or later)
CMake: bump minimum requirement to 3.5 CMake 3.5.0 was released in March 2016.
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- CMake (version 3.5 or later)
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- a C compiler (for system feature detection and the test helper binary)
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- PCRE2 (headers and libraries) - optional, this will be downloaded if missing
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- gettext (headers and libraries) - optional, for translation support
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- an Internet connection, as other dependencies will be downloaded automatically
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Sphinx is also optionally required to build the documentation from a
cloned git repository.
README: updates for Rust / 4.0
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Additionally, running the full test suite requires Python 3, tmux, and the pexpect package.
README: Update dependencies for riir Fixes #9893
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Building from source with CMake
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README: improve instructions on building from source Closes #10894.
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Rather than building from source, consider using a packaged build for your platform. Using the
steps below makes fish difficult to uninstall or upgrade. Release packages are available from the
links above, and up-to-date `development builds of fish are available for many platforms
<https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/wiki/Development-builds>`__
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To install into ``/usr/local``, run:
.. code:: bash
mkdir build; cd build
cmake ..
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cmake --build .
sudo cmake --install .
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The install directory can be changed using the
``-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX`` parameter for ``cmake``.
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CMake Build options
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In addition to the normal CMake build options (like ``CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX``), fish's CMake build has some other options available to customize it.
- BUILD_DOCS=ON|OFF - whether to build the documentation. This is automatically set to OFF when Sphinx isn't installed.
- INSTALL_DOCS=ON|OFF - whether to install the docs. This is automatically set to on when BUILD_DOCS is or prebuilt documentation is available (like when building in-tree from a tarball).
- FISH_USE_SYSTEM_PCRE2=ON|OFF - whether to use an installed pcre2. This is normally autodetected.
- MAC_CODESIGN_ID=String|OFF - the codesign ID to use on Mac, or "OFF" to disable codesigning.
- WITH_GETTEXT=ON|OFF - whether to build with gettext support for translations.
- extra_functionsdir, extra_completionsdir and extra_confdir - to compile in an additional directory to be searched for functions, completions and configuration snippets
Building fish as self-installable (experimental)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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You can also build fish as a self-installing binary.
This will include all the datafiles like the included functions or web configuration tool in the main ``fish`` binary,
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and you can unpack them to ~/.local/share/fish/install/ (currently, subject to change) by running ``fish --install`` (or ``fish --install=noconfirm`` to skip the confirmation).
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You will have to use ``--install`` once per user and you will have to run it again when you upgrade fish. It will tell you to.
installable builds: Fail when building man pages fails This is unfortunately necessary, because otherwise it would not rerun the build script just because you installed sphinx. Because we use the man pages for --help output, they're pretty necessary. To override it, you can set $FISH_BUILD_DOCS=0, like ```fish FISH_BUILD_DOCS=0 cargo install --path . ```
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To install fish as self-installable, just use ``cargo``, like::
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cargo install --path /path/to/fish # if you have a git clone
cargo install --git https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell --tag 4.0 # to build from git once 4.0 is released
cargo install --git https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell # to build the current development snapshot without cloning
README: minor formatting update
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This will place the binaries in ``~/.cargo/bin/``, but you can place them wherever you want.
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README: minor formatting update
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This build won't have the HTML docs (``help`` will open the online version) or translations.
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installable builds: Fail when building man pages fails This is unfortunately necessary, because otherwise it would not rerun the build script just because you installed sphinx. Because we use the man pages for --help output, they're pretty necessary. To override it, you can set $FISH_BUILD_DOCS=0, like ```fish FISH_BUILD_DOCS=0 cargo install --path . ```
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It requires sphinx by default, if sphinx-build is not available you can build without man pages by running it with $FISH_BUILD_DOCS set to 0::
FISH_BUILD_DOCS=0 cargo install --path .
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You can also link it statically (but not against glibc) and move it to other computers.
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Contributing Changes to the Code
--------------------------------
Update some .md references
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See the `Guide for Developers <CONTRIBUTING.rst>`__.
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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
README: Link via matrix, not gitter Gitter is now just another matrix server, so it's pretty useless and not as well-known as a service.
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or join us on our `matrix
channel <https://matrix.to/#/#fish-shell:matrix.org>`__. Or use the `fish tag
README: Link to Unix & Linux Stackexchange instead of SO Stackoverflow's fish tag suffers from inconsistent moderation and an annoying policy on what is allowed and what isn't. Given that fish straddles the line between "programming" and "usage", some fish questions would be allowed and some wouldn't, and it is awkward for users to tell which. So stop recommending a site that, in practice, closes user's questions for unclear reasons. This needs to be done for fish-site as well.
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on Unix & Linux Stackexchange <https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/fish>`__.
There is also a fish tag on Stackoverflow, but it is typically a poor fit.
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Found a bug? Have an awesome idea? Please `open an
issue <https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/new>`__.
README.rst: fix badge The name of the main workflow changed to "test" a while back, and then "make test" after that.
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.. |Build Status| image:: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/workflows/make%20test/badge.svg
Remove Travis Travis is gone. We have Github Actions set up now, which should be okay. Fixes #7447.
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