Dear List,
I have been using Fish since more than a year now as my default shell. There
are two things that I really like:
1) colored and underlined input/output in interactive sessions
2) easy search of substrings in Fish's history
However, there are also some things that I do not like so much in Fish:
1) Some urls have to be escaped in Fish (or they have to be put between
quotation marks). For the handling of urls I prefer Bash to Fish.
2) I am very enthousiast about Fish's scripting possibilities either. I do
appreciate its consistent syntax (compared to Bash). However, I hardly use this
syntax. When I need a script of any length I am more inclined to use Python
anyway. IMHO Python has an even more consistent syntax, and it offers many
libraries on top of Fish.
3) Also, Bash code is so omnipresent nowadays that quite regularly I feel the
urge to start a Bash session anyway.
Because I do not seem to use Fish's scripting possibilities anyway, I would
actually prefer a shell like this:
1) Fish's colored and underlined input/output in interactive sessions
2) Fish's easy search of substrings in the history file
3) Support for Bash (or any other) syntax
Therefore, let me ask the following questions:
* Does anyone know if it is possible to (ab)use Fish in the way that I would
like? Fish would keep on doing the things I like and it would pass all the
commands to Bash and present the output in the Fish Shell again?
I would think that this can not be done very easily. There are of course
differences in syntax between the two shells.
* Have there been efforts to port Fish's colored and underlined input/output
and default search mode to Bash?
* If there have not been such efforts yet, would there people inclined to start
a project like this?
Best wishes,
Guido van Steen
BTW: There are no bad intentions in this post! As I said, I like Fish very
much, but I would just like to configure it a bit more to my personal taste.
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