Questions tagged [fish]
The friendly interactive shell (fish) is a Unix shell that focuses on interactive use, discoverability, and user friendliness.
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How do I get iTerm2's prompt to make marks when the prompt is Starship?
I've run into a situation where installing Starship breaks the iTerm2 shell integration feature of making each prompt a "mark".
The only thing Terminal.app has that iTerm doesn't for me is ...
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In fish shell, how to select with the cursor while shift is held?
In all gui text editing, ctrl-arrow moves the cursor by word, and holding shift selects as the cursor moves. Thus ctrl-shift-left selects the previous word. Fish already has the former but I want to ...
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Using Fish + NVM + Sublime results in commands not found
I'm using Fish shell/omf, NVM (https://github.com/derekstavis/plugin-nvm), and Sublime Text 3. I'm trying to use a build system to run nodemon (which I installed with npm -g install nodemon). nodemon ...
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How to get fish-style formatting with less
Let's say I run a command like ls in fish and get lots of output, how do I scroll through it and still keep the fish formatting or something like it?
ls | less doesn't keep the formatting.
I know ...
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RVM is not a function message when using fish shell
I'm trying to use rvm from within the fish shell
rvm gemset use rails3
I'm getting the following error message from fish
RVM is not a function, selecting rubies with 'rvm use ...' will not work.
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My custom fish shell prompt keeps resetting every reboot
I switched to fish shell a month ago and I'm quite pleased with it. But recently, my custom prompt keeps resetting to the default prompt every time I turn on my PC.
When opening the terminal, I'm ...
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Is there a way to search token history rather than entire commands
The default fish or fzf implementations for ctrl-R is very helpful for looking through and replacing the prompt buffer with lines in history. Is there something similar to alt-up/down, history-token-...
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How can I change the prompt to always show the current path?
I want to continue using the fish shell with as little changes to default setup as possible.
But there is one thing that really bugs me. When the terminal window is cramped the prompt just becomes >...
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fish prompt returns to defaults after change in fish_config
I've been using Fish for a while and after installing Oh-My-Fish the prompt changed to the default OMF prompt. And I couldn't change to what I was using before, one of the default Fish prompts called "...
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Setup different path for fish shell temporally
User libraries are normally in /usr/local/lib. However I want to build some third party libraries in for example /Users/user/Public/lib.
I only want to do it during my testing. Is there a elegant way ...
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fish shell, enter long command
Given the usual size of the terminal window, short commands fit. Ex:
stoqlt@desktop:~ > ls files
However, typing a command that is longer than the free space after the prompt, and reaching the end ...
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Why does fish shell create a hidden process in iTerm2
I've moved from bash to fish shell in iTerm2. However, whenever I start iTerm2, I receive the following error message:
A session ended very soon after starting. Check that the command in
profile ...
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For what purpose is the '&-' file descriptor used in fish?
From the fish manual:
[The File Descripter may be] an ampersand followed by a minus sign
(&-). The file descriptor will be closed
From the Arch wiki:.
Silencing standard output:
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Creating an alias for in fish shell: The file 'vim' is not executable by this user
I'm trying to create an alias for vim to execute vimx. After creating a new terminal when I try to auto complete vi, I get the following error:
fish: The file 'vim' is not executable by this user
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Fish - A way to configure it such that it does not scroll through tab completions with tab
If you have a directory structure like the below
./test/locationOne
./test/locationTwo
./test/locationThree
If, with bash, or fish, you type in
cd test/
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