There’s no syntax for it, but you can do something like

    set -l arg $argv[1]; test -z $arg; and set arg “default”

-Kevin

On Jul 9, 2014, at 3:49 AM, Michael Stillwell <m...@beebo.org> wrote:

> Does fish have a short equivalent to bash's "use default values" (i.e.
> ${parameter:-word})? I'd like to use this to provide default values to
> functions without having to write out laborious if ... else ... end
> chains.
> 
> 
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> Michael
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