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build_tools Merge branch 'master' into documentation-update 2014-09-07 16:37:31 +01:00
doc_src Make false/true into builtins 2014-09-29 13:39:35 -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 Make false/true into builtins 2014-09-29 13:39:35 -07:00
osx Bump osx/config.h version number to 2.1.1 2014-09-07 10:51:11 +08:00
po Merge branch 'master' into documentation-update 2014-09-07 16:37:31 +01:00
share Manpage completions: store in $XDG_DATA_HOME 2014-09-29 19:39:36 +08:00
tests Try to fix the Travis test failures 2014-09-23 23:20:02 -07:00
.gitattributes Merge branch 'master' into documentation-update 2014-09-07 16:37:31 +01:00
.gitignore Rebase documentation changes 2014-09-03 15:10:53 +01:00
.travis.yml Dump interactive logs on travis test failure 2014-09-19 14:52:02 -07:00
autoload.cpp Use source instead of . in autoload.cpp. 2014-04-04 15:59:41 +02:00
autoload.h Run restyle.sh to enforce style rules. 2014-03-31 10:01:39 -07:00
builtin.cpp Make false/true into builtins 2014-09-29 13:39:35 -07:00
builtin.h Support for command wrapping ("aliases") 2014-08-15 18:14:36 -07:00
builtin_commandline.cpp Make commandline -P actually work 2014-08-24 14:47:05 -07:00
builtin_complete.cpp Erase all completions with complete -c foo -e 2014-09-02 15:30:58 -07:00
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.cpp set: Print an error when setting umask to a bad value 2014-08-21 19:06:21 -07:00
builtin_set_color.cpp Further support for term24bit. Teach output.cpp what to do with it. 2014-09-19 18:45:04 -07:00
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
CHANGELOG Remove trailing whitespaces and change tabs to spaces 2012-11-18 11:23:22 +01:00
color.cpp Initial work to support for term-24bit ("true color") 2014-09-19 18:45:04 -07:00
color.h Further support for term24bit. Teach output.cpp what to do with it. 2014-09-19 18:45:04 -07:00
common.cpp Make escape() return a wcstring 2014-09-25 18:20:03 -07:00
common.h Make escape() return a wcstring 2014-09-25 18:20:03 -07:00
complete.cpp Don't include child directories of $PATH in completions 2014-09-20 00:31:33 -07:00
complete.h Don't erase old-style options with complete -l foo -e 2014-09-02 15:30:58 -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 Makefile/configure: detect and use sed from configure 2014-09-18 20:29:49 +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 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.cpp Further support for term24bit. Teach output.cpp what to do with it. 2014-09-19 18:45:04 -07:00
env.h set: Print an error when setting umask to a bad value 2014-08-21 19:06:21 -07:00
env_universal_common.cpp Fix for CVE-2014-2905 - fishd restart required. 2014-08-03 17:00:14 +08:00
env_universal_common.h Fix for CVE-2014-2905 - fishd restart required. 2014-08-03 17:00:14 +08:00
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 Remove INTERNAL_BUFFER, which was only used by fish_pager 2014-09-22 10:16:16 -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 Escape the error string in process expansion errors 2014-09-25 18:24:10 -07:00
expand.h Revert "Prepend ./ to "flag-like file" wildcard expansions and completions" 2014-09-25 22:18:36 -07:00
fallback.cpp Remove getpeerid/getpeerucred and fallbacks 2014-08-03 15:40:44 +08:00
fallback.h Remove getpeerid/getpeerucred and fallbacks 2014-08-03 15:40:44 +08:00
fish.cpp Initial work to support for term-24bit ("true color") 2014-09-19 18:45:04 -07:00
fish_indent.cpp Shorten compilation times 2014-05-01 09:46:27 +02:00
fish_tests.cpp Teach the highlighter about multiple adjacent square bracket expansions 2014-09-30 11:15:22 -07:00
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
function.cpp Rework how screen size is tracked 2014-08-29 12:46:03 -07:00
function.h Fix line number reporting in new parser 2014-03-20 21:32:02 -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 YAML indentation in history. 2014-09-28 15:03:55 +02:00
history.h Improve history robustness against corrupt files 2014-07-29 14:42:03 -07:00
input.cpp Make escape() return a wcstring 2014-09-25 18:20:03 -07:00
input.h Rework mode handling of bind 2014-09-22 21:04:06 -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
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 Minor cleanup of redirection functions 2014-04-11 09:50:12 -07:00
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 lexicon_filter fix for escaped options 2014-09-23 00:24:05 -07:00
lru.h Add empty virtual destructor for lru_node_t. 2014-09-24 16:37:32 +02:00
Makefile.in Makefile: warn about SELinux; avoid a bashism 2014-09-27 19:11:35 +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 Make escape() return a wcstring 2014-09-25 18:20:03 -07:00
output.h Further support for term24bit. Teach output.cpp what to do with it. 2014-09-19 18:45:04 -07:00
pager.cpp Remove my_wcswidth() in favor of fish_wcswidth() 2014-09-25 18:04:11 -07:00
pager.h Run restyle.sh to enforce style rules. 2014-03-31 10:01:39 -07:00
parse_constants.h Implement correct error message for failed process expansion. 2014-05-30 13:50:13 -07:00
parse_execution.cpp Fix for issue where comments are lost in function definitions 2014-09-27 17:32:54 -07:00
parse_execution.h Fix for issue where comments are lost in function definitions 2014-09-27 17:32:54 -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 Fix to indent comments in blocks properly (#1710) 2014-09-29 11:30:21 -07:00
parse_tree.h Fix to indent comments in blocks properly (#1710) 2014-09-29 11:30:21 -07:00
parse_util.cpp Fix to indent comments in blocks properly (#1710) 2014-09-29 11:30:21 -07:00
parse_util.h Allow parse_util_detect_errors to treat incomplete strings as errors 2014-07-24 14:41:15 -07:00
parser.cpp Remove env_universal.h and env_universal.cpp from project 2014-06-18 10:14:35 -07:00
parser.h Remove the now-unused parser_t::job_create 2014-04-14 12:40:17 -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
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 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 Don't sanity_lose if INTERNAL_BLOCK_NODEs have a null argv 2014-07-12 11:01:00 -07:00
proc.h Remove INTERNAL_BUFFER, which was only used by fish_pager 2014-09-22 10:16:16 -07:00
reader.cpp Make escape() return a wcstring 2014-09-25 18:20:03 -07:00
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 Initial work to support for term-24bit ("true color") 2014-09-19 18:45:04 -07:00
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 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
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 Fix some warnings in Linux build 2014-05-31 13:46:28 -07:00
wutil.h Include a missing header for uint64_t 2014-04-29 10:09:38 -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.