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Show long commands in fish (ctrl+r) history on multiple lines
I'm looking for a solution to searching history with fish when your history is full of long commands. I often have curl commands that contain json payloads in my history that I want to repeat, for ...
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How to split a string (of arguments) in fish?
I want to split "-r --run" into "-r" and "--run"
for
string split " " "-r --run"
I get
string split: -r --run: unknown option` as an error
It is ...
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How to save abbreviation in fish?
Running abbr --add ro rpm-ostree will set the abbreviation and it works as expected. But once I exit the shell with exit and then re-enter the shell by typing fish again, all abbreviations are lost. ...
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Preserve command history in chronological order (in fish)
I have noticed that default behaviour for storing command history is only storing the latest entry.
Typing ls and then ls -al and then entering history would show:
ls -al
ls
Typing ls once more would ...
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How do I launch the fish shell in WSL through Cmder?
Setting it as the default shell in Ubuntu WSL results in the PATH not working properly, as described in the docs. So I want to avoid that issue by launching it through the terminal.
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I deleted fish shell and now VS Code terminal doesn't work
I have been working on a tutorial in Angular. Everything was working fine before I went to work today. I came back to my home computer after work today and the fish shell I was using within VS code ...
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tmux changes shell prompt
Ubuntu 20.04 (running inside VirtualBox, if that's important.)
tmux 3.0a (installed via apt)
fish 3.4 (and earlier 3.3)
starship.rs 1.1.1
Font: FiraCode Mono
I have configured my prompt to look as ...
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Accidentally deleted fish while it was being set as my shell - what can I do?
I'm on macOS and I accidentally removed /usr/local/bin/fish while fish was being set as my shell.
Now when I try to start my terminal I get:
login: /usr/local/bin/fish: No such file or directory
What ...
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How to remove leading file path information from fish shell tab-complete suggestions?
Using fish, typing ls <tab> in an example directory, the terminal displays:
$ ls
bar/ dir/ foo/
Continuing with d<tab><tab> this becomes:
$ ls dir/
dir/moredir/ dir/otherdir/ ...
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Fish shell: Set variable outside of current shell
I would like to create the variable $EIGENto save the path where I installed the Eigen library in order to link in with my compiler. For this I was using set EIGEN path/to/eigen
However if I echo $...
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Fish shell alternates between prepending ~ and > depending on which directory I am in
I'm new to using the Fish shell; however, I'm observing some strange behaviour when I navigate between directories.
Below is the output of my shell.
Initially, all commands are prepended with ~; ...
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Is it possible to have an abbreviation in a shell anywhere in a command?
I have a directory which has a really long path. However, I use this directory constantly and I cannot move it (WSL Windows directory). I generally use z to jump around to it quickly which is useful, ...
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distinguish C-i from Tab in Fish?
My fish configuration contains following bindings:
bind \ci nextd-or-forward-word
bind \co prevd-or-backward-word
bind \t complete
When I comment out complete then directory navigation to works as ...
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Why fish shell does not allow function named `-`
I am trying to use fish as my default interactive shell. I was previously using bash and there was support for alias named - (ASCII hyphen, 0x2d). Why does not fish allow creation of alias or function ...
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How to I persist prepended items to PATH in fish shell?
My PATH Prefixes Don't Persist
I'm using Fish v3.2.0. According to the documentation, set -U fish_user_paths should persistently ensure that the directories stored in it should be looked up before ...
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