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fish

Official site: https://fishshell.com/

Install​

Mac:

brew install fish

Set As Default Shell
optional
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Make sure where fish is:

$ which fish
/usr/local/bin/fish

Check if fish is a system shell now:

cat /etc/shells

If there is no fish shell, add it into /etc/shells:

  /bin/bash
  /bin/csh
  /bin/ksh
  /bin/sh
  /bin/tcsh
  /bin/zsh
+ /usr/local/bin/fish

You can set it as default shell:

Set it as default shell:

chsh -s /usr/local/bin/fish

Fisher​

Fisher is a package manager for the fish shell.

Install:

curl https://git.io/fisher --create-dirs -sLo ~/.config/fish/functions/fisher.fish

If you can't use fisher command, try re-login the shell.

Spacefish​

Spacefish is a minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Fish Shell prompt. It combines everything you may need for convenient work, without unnecessary complications, like a real spacefish.

fisher add matchai/spacefish

Other commands​

List packages:

fisher ls

fisher ls <regexp>
fisher ls "^gitlab|fish-.*"

Update packages:

fisher

Update fisher:

fisher self-update

Remove package:

fisher rm <packageName>
fisher rm rafaelrinaldi/pure

Remove all packages:

fisher ls | fisher rm

Uninstall fisher:

fisher self-uninstall

Fixing Perl Warning: Setting locale failed on Mac OS​

You might see this while you execute fisher:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "en_TW.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.

Edit fish config:

vi ~/.config/fish/config.fish

Add locale environment variables:

+ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
+ export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Reference: Fixing Perl Warning: Setting locale failed on Mac OS X Mavericks

Integrate with nvm​

Node Version Manager - Simple bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

To install or update nvm, you can use the install script using cURL:

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash

or Wget:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh | bash

Then install fish-nvm:

fisher add FabioAntunes/fish-nvm edc/bass

If node is not loaded at start, create a init script:

vi ~/.config/fish/conf.d/nvm.fish

and enter:

nvm use node

If you always want to use the latest version, use the followed scripts instead:

nvm install node
# latest npm and yarn
npm i -g npm yarn

then try another session.

Integrate with Docker​

Migrate with docker(archived):

fisher add barnybug/docker-fish-completion

Migrate with docker-compose:

fisher add  brgmnn/fish-docker-compose

Integrate with Visual Studio Code​

Edit settings.json:

{
  "terminal.integrated.shell.osx": "/usr/local/bin/fish"
}

Integrate with Hyper.js​

Edit ~/.hyper.js:

module.exports = {
  shell: '/usr/local/bin/fish',
};

Windows alternative​

Cmder is a software package created out of pure frustration over the absence of nice console emulators on Windows. It is based on amazing software, and spiced up with the Monokai color scheme and a custom prompt layout, looking sexy from the start.

🔗Seamless VS Code Integration
🔗Seamless Hyper integration