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Install fish
chsh -s /usr/bin/fish
That's all, folks.
I also install starship.
And maybe a Nerd Font
I do use a nerd font also.
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.
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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?
They warn about it on their home page, so I assumed using it could bust your system. My bad.
I think they also had harsher wording about this in the past but I might be misremembering...
This was more of a problem when they didn't support basic POSIX-isms so even basic calls to
shlikesh -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/share independent of your login shell.What does any of that have to do with your login shell?
Recently tried it and do like