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minus-squaremaxwells_daemon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoInstall fish chsh -s /usr/bin/fish That’s all, folks.
minus-squareMihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoI thought it’d have better git prompt out of the box. I guess I have to try it configure.
minus-squareartiman@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoDefault preset or did you try a preset it has different presets on the website.
minus-squareMihies@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoI just installed it as it is out of the box. What do you suggest for improving git prompt?
minus-squareartiman@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoTry out the different presets the git prompts may be better.
minus-squareUnfortunateShort@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoAnd maybe a Nerd Font
minus-squareInternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoRecently tried it and do like
minus-squareLiveLM@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoI thought you weren’t supposed to use Fish as your login shell directly since it isn’t fully POSIX compatible
minus-squaredarklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoWhy would your login shell need to be fully POSIX compatible?
minus-squarefurikuri@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoThis was more of a problem when they didn’t support basic POSIX-isms so even basic calls to sh like sh -c 'echo "foo" && echo "bar"' would fail. Less of a problem now but you never know when a random script is going to rely on some obscure POSIX flag
minus-squarexav@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoScripts who use #!/bin/sh are independent of your login shell.
minus-squaredarklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoWhat does any of that have to do with your login shell?
Install fish
chsh -s /usr/bin/fish
That’s all, folks.
I also install starship.
I thought it’d have better git prompt out of the box. I guess I have to try it configure.
Default preset or did you try a preset it has different presets on the website.
I just installed it as it is out of the box. What do you suggest for improving git prompt?
Try out the different presets the git prompts may be better.
🫡
And maybe a Nerd Font
Recently tried it and do like
I thought you weren’t supposed to use Fish as your login shell directly since it isn’t fully POSIX compatible
Why would your login shell need to be fully POSIX compatible?
This was more of a problem when they didn’t support basic POSIX-isms so even basic calls to
sh
likesh -c 'echo "foo" && echo "bar"'
would fail. Less of a problem now but you never know when a random script is going to rely on some obscure POSIX flagScripts who use
#!/bin/sh
are independent of your login shell.What does any of that have to do with your login shell?