A blog about software by Alexander Yaäkov Garber.

I think I'll switch to fish

I watched this video on Distrotube and decided to give fish shell a whirl.

Two extra things to install that really make fish shine:

  • oh-my-fish, a grab-bag of themes and customisations.
  • autojump.fish, which adds Autojump to fish. I think you have to install autojump first.

A couple things I like:

  • git branch in the prompt
  • syntax highlighting
  • intelligent tab completion

I’ll have to get used to the fish way of shell scripting, e.g. I can’t chain commands with &&, but it looks pretty cool.