Fish Shell 4.4 Released With Vi Mode Improvements and New Themes (linuxiac.com)

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Fish, a popular user-friendly command-line shell, has announced version 4.4, a new release that builds on the 4.0 series.

One notable change is the deprecation of the default fossil prompt, which is now disabled. Interactive behavior has also been refined in several areas.

The bind builtin now lists mappings from all modes when --mode is not specified, making keybinding inspection more predictable. Fish no longer displays line-wise autosuggestions that do not begin with a command, reducing visual noise during input.

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[-] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 weeks ago

Vi mode is cool, but please somebody get me a helix mode 🤌

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

By the way, if you hit alt+E on the command line, the currently written command can be edited with your favorite editor. So you can edit it literally in Helix if you'd like. But it won't be a proper "mode", of course.

[-] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago

Good to know!

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Helix crew unite!

[-] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

It would probably be better to call it "Kakoune mode", as that's where most of the Helix keybindings come from, but I agree nevertheless.

[-] jimmy90@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

the pace of dev since moving to rust is fucking astonishing

[-] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

right?

[-] nothingcorporate@lemmy.today 5 points 2 weeks ago

Finally, a command line shell for the 90s

[-] Fizz@lemmy.nz 0 points 2 weeks ago

Great another thing to get trapped in

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