I'm excited! I will try it sometime. I seem to recall that some years ago when I left ZSH for bash (before discovering fish), it was partly because ZSH was slower (interactive latency) or used more RAM per shell-instance. I hope those don't become an issue for me again.
-Isaac On 01/08/11 18:59, Guido van Steen wrote: > Dear Fish users, > > About 18 months ago I mailed this list that I would like Fish even more, if it > only allowed me to use Bourne syntax > (https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=23248513). > > > This led me to a feature request at the Bash mailing list, but noone there > even > cared to reply. I finally made a switch to ZSH, where I was given with a > Fish-like "history search". I have come to like ZSH very much. Yet, until > recently I kept on missing Fish's interactive syntax highlighting. > > > A few month ago, however, some ZSH users (Julien Nicoulaud and others) started > to implement this feature in ZSH. Development takes place at github: > https://github.com/nicoulaj/zsh-syntax-highlighting. It works very well! > > > I have combined Julien's syntax highlighting code with an improved version of > the code that I use to perform a "Fish-like" history search. I further added > some scripts that take care of installing the files at the right place. The > project is called Fizsh, meaning Friendly Interactive ZSHell. It is a frontend > to ZSH. Its purpose is to provide users with an easy looking (Fish-like) > environment, in which they can still execute Bourne-syntax snippets. This will > hopefully be useful to users relatively new to ZSH, but it may also be of > interest to Fish users who, like me, love the Fish user interface, but who > want > to be able to execute Bourne-syntax code at the same time. > > > The Fizsh project is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/fizsh/. You > can find a tarball there, and a ".deb" archive. > > > For future versions I will just check-out the latest version of Julien's > syntax > highlighting script. Fizsh's history-search-widget will have to be improved. > There are some unsolved bugs in it. Anyone who has ideas, bug-reports, or > patches, please feel free to mail them to me, or to the Fizsh mailing list at > sourceforge! > > > Best wishes, > > Guido van Steen > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company > that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to > best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure > and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > Fish-users mailing list > Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gaining the trust of online customers is vital for the success of any company that requires sensitive data to be transmitted over the Web. Learn how to best implement a security strategy that keeps consumers' information secure and instills the confidence they need to proceed with transactions. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
