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fish shell

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 14:55 -- rprice

Finally, a command line shell for the 90s fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for OS X, Linux, and the rest of the family. Autosuggestions Autosuggestion Thumbnail fish suggests commands as you type based on history and completions, just like a web browser. Watch out, Netscape Navigator 4.0! Glorious VGA Color Colors Thumbnail fish natively supports term256, the state of the art in terminal technology. You'll have an astonishing 256 colors available for use! Sane Scripting Scripting Thumbnail fish is fully scriptable, and its syntax is simple, clean, and consistent. You'll never write esac again. Web Based configuration Web Config Thumbnail For those lucky few with a graphical computer, you can set your colors and view functions, variables, and history all from a web page. Man Page Completions Man Page Completions Thumbnail Other shells support programmable completions, but only fish generates them automatically by parsing your installed man pages. Works Out Of The Box Works Out of the Box Thumbnail fish will delight you with features like tab completions and syntax highlighting that just work, with nothing new to learn or configure.