Fish is such a great shell. More often than not it reads my mind about what to do (e.g. with its fantastic history autocomplete), but I’m really excited for this minor breaking change note:
> alt-left and alt-right will now move by one argument (which may contain quoted spaces), not just one word like ctrl-left and ctrl-right do.
I'll take this moment to point out that the PowerShell feels like a modern shell and is open source https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell (MIT license). If you want something more modern give it a try. Native support for JSON and XML and parallel streams.
That said, I'm glad to see another major release of Fish because it's for having option that we get evolution. Also very exciting to see it was rewritten in Rust! That might make it a good choice for containers that need a shell but want to harden further.
It's the first beta. There is time before it even makes into rolling distros.
The initial reception is good though. Works the same as before which is great for a full rewrite.
Fish is such a great shell. More often than not it reads my mind about what to do (e.g. with its fantastic history autocomplete), but I’m really excited for this minor breaking change note:
> alt-left and alt-right will now move by one argument (which may contain quoted spaces), not just one word like ctrl-left and ctrl-right do.
If there was a good headline on here to drop in the “Written in Rust” slug, this would be it.
I did try: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42443705
I love their tag line,
> Finally, a command line shell for the 90s
This does feel appropriate for how decidedly unmodern sh, bash, and the like are.
They don't miss the mark with their brand of humor in the 4.0 release notes,
> embrace modern computing [1]
> [1] Zip disks, Sound Blaster cards, etc.
I'll take this moment to point out that the PowerShell feels like a modern shell and is open source https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell (MIT license). If you want something more modern give it a try. Native support for JSON and XML and parallel streams.
That said, I'm glad to see another major release of Fish because it's for having option that we get evolution. Also very exciting to see it was rewritten in Rust! That might make it a good choice for containers that need a shell but want to harden further.