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

Zoxide¶

Zoxide is a smarter cd replacement that tracks your most frequently and recently visited directories. Type z foo instead of cd ~/some/long/path/to/foo.

pacman -S zoxide

apt install zoxide

Add the fish integration to your config:

zoxide init fish | source

Basic usage:

• z foo: jump to the most frecent directory matching foo
• z foo bar: match multiple keywords
• zi foo: interactive fuzzy picker (requires fzf)
• z -: jump to the previous directory

Zoxide learns from your cd usage over time, so the more you use it the better it gets at predicting where you want to go.

ajeetdsouza/zoxide