Hi ridiculous_fish,

it's a really news.

Congratulations with beta!

Maxim


On Wed, 30 May 2012 13:43:57 +0400, ridiculous_fish  
<corydo...@ridiculousfish.com> wrote:

> Hello fellow fish fans! I am ridiculous_fish, and I come bearing  
> lungfuls of new life!
>
> Over the past year, I and my partner Siteshwar have been working on a  
> fish fork. We've been modernizing fish's codebase, while adding some  
> truly compelling features and improving performance. We've been living  
> on this fork for months, and we think it's _awesome_. Compared to stock  
> fish, our branch is noticeably faster and easier to maintain, and its  
> new features have ruined me for all other shells. bash now tastes like  
> cardboard.
>
> Our fork is now in Open Beta, and we'd like to invite you to try it out!  
> We are interested in feedback and bug reports.
>
> We'd also like to start a discussion about our changes and whether/how  
> to incorporate them into fish trunk (which we would very much like to  
> do). Our changes are transformative and impact nearly every aspect of  
> fish's code base, so it is not to be undertaken lightly. But our changes  
> are also very compelling from the perspectives of both users and  
> maintainers, and our months of living-on have given us a lot of  
> confidence in them. Our branch is not only the best fish ever made; we  
> think it's the best POSIX command line shell, period.
>
> Here's how to get it!
>
>   Main page: http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/
>   Open beta page: http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/beta.html
>   Release notes: http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/release_notes.html
>   Gitorious page:  
> https://gitorious.org/~ridiculousfish/fish-shell/fishfish
>
> The relevant git branch is fish_fish.
>
> Please share your thoughts, reactions, rants, raves, and bug reports on  
> this list. If all goes well, we'll announce the Open Beta more widely in  
> the upcoming week.
>
> A few teaser improvements (for a longer list, see the Release Notes  
> above):
>
> - Autosuggestions (think URL fields in browsers)
> - 256 color support
> - Web-based configuration
> - Syntax highlighting is now multithreaded, so it doesn't cause  
> stuttering typing on slow disks / filesystems
> - Overall performance is way better
> - It's all in (sane) C++. No more string_buffer_t, array_list_t, or  
> hash_table_t, and no more halloc!
>
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