Fish Shell¶

Fish (Friendly Interactive SHell) is a smart, user-friendly shell with autosuggestions, syntax highlighting, and tab completions out of the box, no plugins or configuration required to get a great experience.

Install¶

pacman -S fish

apt install fish

Set fish as your default shell:

chsh -s /usr/bin/fish

Config¶

Fish config lives in ~/.config/fish/config.fish. Unlike bash/zsh, fish uses its own syntax, no need to source files or export variables the traditional way.

if status is-interactive
    # Commands to run in interactive sessions can go here
end

set PATH $PATH ~/.local/bin

Fisher¶

Fisher is the go-to plugin manager for fish. Lightweight and fast, plugins are installed directly from GitHub.

pacman -S fisher

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jorgebucaran/fisher/main/functions/fisher.fish | source && fisher install jorgebucaran/fisher

Installed plugins are tracked in ~/.config/fish/fish_plugins and can be restored with fisher update.

jorgebucaran/fisher

Tide¶

Tide is a fast, feature-rich prompt for fish, the fish-native alternative to Starship. It configures itself interactively and shows git status, language versions, command duration, and more.

fisher install ilancosman/tide@v6

Run the interactive setup wizard:

tide configure

The wizard walks through style, prompt items, and colors, no manual config editing needed.

ilancosman/tide