CLclintcparker·Dec 13, 2017
Regarding the package manager, you should check out https://github.com/fisherman/fisherman
In Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etcjorgebucaran
fisher
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jorgebucaran / fisher
fisher
A plugin manager for Fish
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2Explicit recommenders
9.5KGitHub stars
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What it is
A plugin manager for Fish
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I've used Fish for about 2 years now. Before that I used ZSH for about 6 months. I'm relatively new daily driving Linux. About 3 years. The thing about ZSH that made me jump…
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 13 | 9 | 4 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesIf you like fish but miss the plugin ecosystem of zsh you might be interested in the fish-shell plugin manager, fisherman. I've really been enjoying fish with z and fzf.
https://github.com/fisherman/fisherman
In Fish: A user-friendly command line shell for macOS, Linux, etcasdf [0] is a great alternative to nvm. The best part is that it supports multiple languages and it's fast. I use the plugins for elixir, erlang, nodejs, and ruby.
Many CLI tools are missing completions, but I think it's slowly getting better over time. The pros outweigh the cons for me.
[0] https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf
[1] https://github.com/fisherman/fisherman
In Mastering Bash and TerminalI've tried bash, zsh, and fish. After trying all three, I'm staying with fish. bash and zsh don't have sensible defaults, and configuring them is tedious. fish works great out of the box, and it's really fast. When I picked up zsh I used oh-my-zsh and later prezto, but it was slow and figuring out what everything all the framework did was complicated.
With fish I have a setup.fish script that defines all my universal exports, for when I setup a new computer. This is for private tokens, like HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN. For aliases and utilities, I wrote a fisherman [0] plugin. It has a functions folder and a fishfile for the few other plugins I use.
[0] https://github.com/fisherman/fisherman
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