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Re: Fish Shell - a new shell for modern times.

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On 2014-04-01 13:40:23 +0000, Alvaro Martinez said:

> It looks nice, definitely. I like the inline help feature, often I find 
> myself trying to write a complex command line and not remembering 
> exactly the name of a parameter. It is a huge distraction to break the 
> line of thought in order to open a man page. The Unix CLI tools tend 
> not to be consistent with each other.
> 
> If I were to request a feature for a shell, it would be an online 
> syntax check like the programming editors have.
> Something that gives me an error message if I write (and while I'm 
> writing it) "while something; then" or "if something; do", "cp -a" in a 
> Solaris box, or "ps aux" when the version of ps in the $PATH is not a 
> BSD variant. I usually find those errors myself, but it sometimes feels 
> like I'm walking on a minefield, having to check all the time if I'm 
> using the right switches.
> 
> The lack of script compatibility is a no-go, however.
> I work at the command line, and write many scripts that must run in 
> Solaris and Linux (luckily not many different versions), so having a 
> different syntax in the interactive shell is not something I'd consider 
> useful. In particular when something like "set foo bar" is perfectly 
> valid in other shells, only with completely different semantics.
> 
> I have played a little with Terminology (terminal emulator for 
> Enlightenment), some of the additions are very useful, it looks like an 
> enhanced Eterm :)
> 
> http://enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology&l=en
> 
> Oregonian Haruspex wrote:
>> I've been playing around with the Fish shell for a while.  I must
>> confess that I like it much better than other shells.  It was not
>> designed for script-compatibility with any other shell, but that's OK
>> because pretty much any Unixy system that has a shell has sh or bash
>> included.
>> 
>> ("https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendly_interactive_shell")
>> 
>> It's quite nice.  I realize it seems like heresy to some to choose a
>> different shell but I would recommend giving it a shot.  While it aims
>> to be easier to use it is also significantly more powerful as well.

I hear you, but long ago I abandoned bash for perl when it comes to 
scripting anyway.  I like the fish shell mainly for the interactivity 
features.

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Fish Shell - a new shell for modern times. Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-31 13:03 -0700
  Re: Fish Shell - a new shell for modern times. Alvaro Martinez <alvaro@elcodiguero.com> - 2014-04-01 10:40 -0300
    Re: Fish Shell - a new shell for modern times. Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-01 16:39 -0700
  Re: Fish Shell - a new shell for modern times. Morten Nygaard Åsnes <mnaasnes@gmail.com> - 2014-04-02 12:49 +0200

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