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0 pointssmoldesu3y ago0 comments

If you're just looking to pimp your terminal and sand off some of the edges, fish is a great shell replacement to try: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell

A lot of Mac users either don't know they're using zsh by default now or simply don't take advantage of it's scripting language/featureset. For those people, I think fish makes a compelling upgrade. No log-in, just a slightly nicer interactive terminal prompt.

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firstSpeaker3y ago

Fish is a shell, warp is a terminal emulator. So even if someone uses fish they still need a terminal emulator; e.g. iTerm2 or Terminal.app. Am I missing something?

fragmede3y ago

Warp goes a bit beyond a normal terminal emulator and blurs the line a bit in order to support multiple shells without the user having to configure it in their shell by editing .bashrc or whatever. Eg Clickable position for text entry, which most other text boxes have supported since the 80's. I'm sure there's a readline setting somewhere out there but Warp overrides whatever settings are needed in order to get that to work out of the box.

NegativeLatency3y ago

Wow it looks like it's possible but hard to get readline to take the position from a mouseclick: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55437976

smoldesuOP3y ago

Yep! fish and iTerm2 make a wonderful pair on MacOS, it's my go-to combo. My larger point is that you can add nice features to your terminal without adding cloud logins or shady proprietary clients.

zamalek3y ago

Don't forget https://starship.rs/

NegativeLatency3y ago

As someone who previously used a very customized zsh, switching to fish was great: reliable, fast, low config, etc

smoldesuOP3y ago

I'm in the same boat. My zsh setup was much fancier, but fish gets me 80% of the features with 0% of the configuration.

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0 pointssmoldesu3y ago0 comments

If you're just looking to pimp your terminal and sand off some of the edges, fish is a great shell replacement to try: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell

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firstSpeaker3y ago

Fish is a shell, warp is a terminal emulator. So even if someone uses fish they still need a terminal emulator; e.g. iTerm2 or Terminal.app. Am I missing something?

fragmede3y ago

NegativeLatency3y ago

Wow it looks like it's possible but hard to get readline to take the position from a mouseclick: https://stackoverflow.com/a/55437976

smoldesuOP3y ago

Yep! fish and iTerm2 make a wonderful pair on MacOS, it's my go-to combo. My larger point is that you can add nice features to your terminal without adding cloud logins or shady proprietary clients.

zamalek3y ago

Don't forget https://starship.rs/

NegativeLatency3y ago

As someone who previously used a very customized zsh, switching to fish was great: reliable, fast, low config, etc

smoldesuOP3y ago

I'm in the same boat. My zsh setup was much fancier, but fish gets me 80% of the features with 0% of the configuration.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse