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Fish (the “friendly interactive
shell”) has
the explicit goal of being
more user-friendly than other shells.
It features a modern command-line interface with syntax highlighting, tab
completion, and auto-suggestions out of the box
(all with no configuration required).
Unlike many of its competitors, it doesn’t care
about being POSIX-compliant but attempts to blaze its own path. Since our
last
look at the project, way back in 2013, it
has seen lots of new releases with features, bug fixes, and refinements
aimed at
appealing to a wide range of users. Some of the biggest additions landed in the
3.0 release, but
we will also describe some other notable changes from version 2.1 up through
latest version.