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Fish Shell 4.2 Released with Improved Autosuggestions (linuxiac.com)
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Fish shell, a popular user-friendly command-line shell, has announced version 4.2, a new release that builds on the 4.0 series. Among the most visible improvements is an upgrade to history-based autosuggestions, which now properly handle multi-line commands.

Fish 4.2 also improves how prompts are managed: transient prompts that contain more lines than the final one are now cleared properly, preventing visual clutter on screen. Similarly, the shell now hides parts of a multi-line prompt that have scrolled out of view, eliminating duplicated lines after repainting.

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[–] chrash0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

nah nushell does all that and more. i think fish is a good alt for someone who knows enough bash to know that scripting it sucks. if you want autocomplete and plugins n stuff it’s probably the most ergonomic POSIX-like shell out there.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Cool. I might experiment a bit with nushell then, I just don't have a use case for it though, that's mainly been the "blocker". I have no real motivation to switch. Maybe it's better suited for a DevOps kind of situation or similar.