Hello Aleksey,

Thanks for trying fish.

On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Aleksey Midenkov <midenok+f...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> > help for
>
> It opened browser window... I don't need browser, I need quick and
> easy way to access basic syntax what does inline help in bash. It's
> console app after all!
>
> > man for
>
> Not really good: the default PAGER is 'less' which doesn't fully
> comply with 'quick and easy'. Well, if to trim NAME section and quick
> description ('for - perform a set of commands multiple times.') and
> output with 'cat' it will be almost like 'help' in bash, but:
>
> > PAGER=cat man for
> fish: Unknown command 'PAGER=cat'. Did you mean to run man with a
> modified environment? Try 'env PAGER=cat man...'. See
> the help section on the set command by typing 'help set'.
>
> I recall, that I've read something about "fish doesn't like
> subshells". Well, it's good to set variables inside pipes: I like
> that! But, here I want quick and easy way to use temporary settings.
> Ok, let's try what error said:
>
> > env PAGER=cat man for
> No manual entry for for
>

> OMG, what was that?? It set PAGER and forgot all other variables? I
> guess, it executed '/usr/bin/env' which is not related to any shell
> and behaves how it wants, thus not a good method. I just want a
> subshell here with a quick and concise:
>
> > PAGER=cat man for
>
> And it is kind of cumbersome to add 'env' here (even if it worked)...
>

It's rather simple. Just type 'for' and press enter to see help text .


> Btw, if someone is interested, I decided to look at 'fish' because of
> course 'bash' scripting is horrible! And the fact that 'fish' supports
> var-change hooks was a signal to start examining it. But such basic
> and simple failures give wa-ay too much no-go. The interactivity of
> 'fish' is not really good. Well, by interactivity I don't mean all
> these traffic-light colors and popping stuff (which frankly don't add
> good impression) but simply 'what you type and what you get'...


Let us know if you have any suggestions to improve fish.


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