Previously executing `set -a` or `set -p` would just list all the
variables, which does not make sense since the user specifically ask
for an action (append/prepend).
Update the help page synopsis
Part of #12603
Add support for the SHELL_PROMPT_PREFIX, SHELL_PROMPT_SUFFIX, and
SHELL_WELCOME environment variables as standardized by systemd v257.
SHELL_PROMPT_PREFIX and SHELL_PROMPT_SUFFIX are automatically prepended
and appended to the left prompt at the shell level, so all prompts
(default, custom, and sample) pick them up without modification.
SHELL_WELCOME is displayed after the greeting when an interactive shell
starts.
These variables provide a standard interface for tools like systemd's
run0 to communicate session context to the shell.
Fixes https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/10924Closes#12570
`set_color normal` is too ambiguous and easily misinterpreted since
it actually reset all colors and modes instead of resetting just
the foreground color as one without prior knowledge might expect.
Closes#12548
This is done partly for consistency `underline` where we still need
`off` but where true/false doesn't make sense, and partly to simplify
user choices and the code.
See #12507Closes#12541
`--foreground` has two purposes:
- allow resetting the foreground color to its default, without also
resetting the other colors and modes
- improve readibility and unify the `set_color` arguments
`--reset` also has two purposes:
- provide a more intuitive way to reset the text formatting
- allow setting the colors and modes from a clean state without
requiring two calls to `set_color`
Part 3/3 of #12495Closes#12507
Add an optional `on`/`off`` value to italics/reverse/striketrough
to allow turning of the attribute without having to use the `normal`
color, i.e. reset the whole style
Part 1/3 of #12495
Part of #12507
Commit 38e633d49b (fish_vi_key_bindings: add support for count,
2025-12-16) introduced an operator mode which kind of makes a lot of
sense for today's fish. If we end up needing more flexibility and
tighter integration, we might want to move some of this into core.
Unfortunately the change is at odds with our cursed forward-jump
implementation. The forward-jump special input function works by
magically reading the next key from stdin, which causes problems when
we are executing a script:
commandline -f begin-selection
commandline -f forward-jump
commandline -f end-selection
here end-selection will be executed immediately
and forward-jump fails to wait for a keystroke.
We should get rid of forward-jump implementation.
For now, replace only the broken thing with a dedicated bind mode
for each of f/F/t/T.
Fixes#12417
Ensure `bind` builtin lists binds for all modes if `--mode` is not
given.
- The `get` function in `src/input.rs` now takes an optional bind
mode and returns a list of input mappings (binds).
- The `list_one` function in `src/builtins/bind.rs` lists binds in
the results returned by `get`.
- Creating the output string for a bind has been extracted to its
own function: `BuiltinBind::generate_output_string`.
- The `bind_mode_given` option has been removed.
Fixes#12214Closes#12285
- The behavior of `{,d}{w,W}`, `{,d}{,g}{e,E}` bindings in vi-mode is
now more compatible with vim, except that the underscore is not a
keyword (which can be achieved by setting `set iskeyword-=_` in vim).
- Add commands `{forward,kill}-{word,bigword}-vi`,
`{forward,backward,kill,backward-kill}-{word,bigword}-end` and
`kill-{a,inner}-{word,bigword}` corresponding to above-mentioned
bindings.
- Closes#10393.
Closes#12269
Co-authored-by: Johannes Altmanninger <aclopte@gmail.com>
Based on the discussion in
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/11967
Introduce a `status language` builtin, which has subcommands for
controlling and inspecting fish's message localization status.
The motivation for this is that using only the established environment
variables `LANGUAGE`, `LC_ALL`, `LC_MESSAGES`, and `LANG` can cause
problems when fish interprets them differently from GNU gettext.
In addition, these are not well-suited for users who want to override
their normal localization settings only for fish, since fish would
propagate the values of these variables to its child processes.
Configuration via these variables still works as before, but now there
is the `status language set` command, which allows overriding the
localization configuration.
If `status language set` is used, the language precedence list will be
taken from its remaining arguments.
Warnings will be shown for invalid arguments.
Once this command was used, the localization related environment
variables are ignored.
To go back to taking the configuration from the environment variables
after `status language set` was executed, users can run `status language
unset`.
Running `status language` without arguments shows information about the
current message localization status, allowing users to better understand
how their settings are interpreted by fish.
The `status language list-available` command shows which languages are
available to choose from, which is used for completions.
This commit eliminates dependencies from the `gettext_impl` module to
code in fish's main crate, allowing for extraction of this module into
its own crate in a future commit.
Closes#12106
Implicitly-universal variables have some downsides:
- It's surprising that "set fish_color_normal ..."
and "set fish_key_bindings fish_vi_key_bindings" propagate to other
shells and persist, especially since all other variables (and other
shells) would use the global scope.
- they don't play well with tracking configuration in Git.
- we don't know how to roll out updates to the default theme (which is
problematic since can look bad depending on terminal background
color scheme).
It's sort of possible to use only globals and unset universal variables
(because fish only sets them at first startup), but that requires
knowledge of fish internals; I don't think many people do that.
So:
- Set all color variables that are not already set as globals.
- To enable this do the following, once, after upgrading:
copy any existing universal color variables to globals, and:
- if existing universal color variables exactly match
the previous default theme, and pretend they didn't exist.
- else migrate the universals to ~/.config/fish/conf.d/fish_frozen_theme.fish,
which is a less surprising way of persisting this.
- either way, delete all universals to do the right thing for most users.
- Make sure that webconfig's "Set Theme" continues to:
- instantly update all running shells
- This is achieved by a new universal variable (but only for
notifying shells, so this doesn't actually need to be persisted).
In future, we could use any other IPC mechanism such as "kill -SIGUSR1"
or if we go for a new feature, "varsave" or "set --broadcast", see
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/7317#issuecomment-701165897https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/8455#discussion_r757837137.
- persist the theme updates, completely overriding any previous theme.
Use the same "fish_frozen_theme.fish" snippet as for migration (see above).
It's not meant to be edited directly. If people want flexibility
the should delete it.
It could be a universal variable instead of a conf snippet file;
but I figured that the separate file looks nicer
(we can have better comments etc.)
- Ask the terminal whether it's using dark or light mode, and use an
optimized default. Add dark/light variants to themes,
and the "unknown" variant for the default theme.
Other themes don't need the "unknown" variant;
webconfig already has a background color in context,
and CLI can require the user to specify variant explicitly if
terminal doesn't advertise colors.
- Every variable that is set as part of fish's default behavior
gets a "--label=default" tacked onto it.
This is to allow our fish_terminal_color_theme event handler to
know which variables it is allowed to update. It's also necessary
until we revert 7e3fac561d (Query terminal only just before reading
from it, 2025-09-25) because since commit, we need to wait until
the first reader_push() to get query results. By this time, the
user's config.fish may already have set variables.
If the user sets variables via either webconfig, "fish_config theme
{choose,save}", or directly via "set fish_color_...", they'd almost
always remove this label.
- For consistency, make default fish_key_bindings global
(note that, for better or worse, fish_add_path still remains as
one place that implicitly sets universal variables, but it's not
something we inject by default)
- Have "fish_config theme choose" and webconfig equivalents reset
all color variables. This makes much more sense than keeping a
hardcoded subset of "known colors"; and now that we don't really
expect to be deleting universals this way, it's actually possible
to make this change without much fear.
Should have split this into two commits (the changelog entries are
intertwined though).
Closes#11580Closes#11435Closes#7317
Ref: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/12096#issuecomment-3632065704
- Prefer the command name without `.exe` since the extension is optional
when launching application on Windows...
- ... but if the user started to type the extension, then use it.
- If there is no description and/or completion for `foo.exe` then
use those for `foo`
Closes#12100
As discussed in #12112, this is a false friend (the libc logb()
does something else), and without keyword arguments or at least
function overloading, this is hard to read.
Better use "/ log(base)" trick.
Commit 0893134543 (Added .editorconfig file (#3332) (#3313),
2016-08-25) trimmed trailing whitespace for Markdown file (which do
have significant trailing whitespace) but ReStructuredText does not,
and none of our Markdown files cares about this, so let's clean up
whitespace always.
The help_sections.rs file was added to the tarball only as a quick hack.
There is a cyclic dependency between docs and fish:
"fish_indent" via "crates/build-man-pages" depends on "doc_src/".
So every "touch doc_src/foo.rst && ninja -Cbuild sphinx-docs"
re-builds fish.
In future "fish_indent" should not depend on "crates/build-man-pages".
Until then, a following commit wants to break this cyclic dependency
in a different way: we won't embed man pages (matching historical
behavior), which means that CMake builds won't need to run
sphinx-build.
But sphinx-build is also used for extracting help sections.
Also, the fix for #12082 will use help sections elsewhere in the code.
Prepare to remove the dependency on doc_src by committing the help
sections (we already do elsewhere).
When running fish inside SSH and local and remote OS differ, fish
uses key bindings for the remote OS, which is weird. Fix that by
asking the terminal for the OS name.
This should be available on foot and kitty soon, see
https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/pulls/2217#issuecomment-8249741
Ref: #11107
Some modern terminals allow creating tabs in a single window;
this functionality has a lot of overlap with what a window manager
already provides, so I'm not sure if it's a good idea. Regardless,
a lot of people still use terminal tabs (or even multiple levels of
tabs via tmux!), so let's add a fish-native way to set the tab title
independent of the window title.
Closes#2692
No need to define "cmd-foo" anchors; use :doc:`foo <cmds/foo>`
instead. If we want "cmd-foo" but it should be tested.
See also 38b24c2325 (docs: Use :doc: role when linking to commands,
2022-09-23).
functions/help and completions/help duplicate a lot of information
from doc_src. Get this information from Sphinx.
Drop short section titles such as "help globbing" in favor of the
full HTML anchor:
help language#wildcards-globbing
I think the verbosity is no big deal because we have tab completion,
we're trading in conciseness for consistency and better searchability.
In future, we can add back shorter invocations like "help globbing"
(especially given that completion descriptions often already repeated
the anchor path), but it should be checked by CI.
Also
- Remove some unused Sphinx anchors
- Remove an obsoleted script.
- Test that completions are in sync with Sphinx sources.
(note that an alternative would be to check
in the generated help_sections.rs file, see
https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/how-fail-on-cargo-warning-warnings-from-build-rs/23590/5)
Here's a list of deleted msgids. Some of them were unused, for others
there was a better message (+ translation).
$variable $variable 变量
(command) command substitution (命令) 命令替换
< and > redirections < 和 > 重定向
Autoloading functions 自动加载函数
Background jobs 后台作业
Builtin commands 内建命令
Combining different expansions 合并不同的展开
Command substitution (SUBCOMMAND) 命令替换 (子命令)
Defining aliases 定义别名
Escaping characters 转义字符
Help on how to reuse previously entered commands 关于如何重复使用先前输入的命令的帮助
How lists combine 列表如何组合
Job control 作业控制
Local, global and universal scope 局域、全局和通用作用域
Other features 其他功能
Programmable prompt 可编程提示符
Shell variable and function names Shell 变量和函数名
Some common words 一些常用词
The status variable 状况变量
Variable scope for functions 函数的变量作用域
Vi mode commands Vi 模式命令
What set -x does `set -x` 做什么
Writing your own completions 自己写补全
ifs and elses if 和 else
var[x..y] slices var[x..y] 切片
{a,b} brace expansion {a,b} 大括号展开
~ expansion ~ 展开
Closes#11796
Link to history, printf and "builtin _" which are the only(?) users
of LC_TIME, LC_NUMERIC and LC_MESSAGES respectively (besides the core
equivalent of "builtin _").
Previously, if you called a function parameter 'argv', within the body
of the function, argv would be set to *all* the arguments to the
function, and not the one indicated by the parameter name.
The same behaviour happened if you inherited a variable named 'argv'.
Both behaviours were quite surprising, so this commit makes things more
obvious, although they could alternatively simply be made errors.
Part of #11780
This makes it so that printing a function definition will only use one
--argument-names group, instead of one for argument name.
For example, "function foo -a x y; ..." will print with "function foo
--argument-names x y" instead of "function foo --argument-names x
--argument-names y", which is very bizarre.
Moreover, the documentation no longer says that argument-names "Has to
be the last option.". This sentence appears to have been introduced in
error by pull #10524, since the ability to have options afterwards was
deliberately added by pull #6188.
Part of #11780
I'm not aware of a lot of sensible use cases where users need to access
our files directly. The one example we know about is zoxide overriding
exactly our version of "function cd", ignoring any user-provided cd.
I think this is already hacky. But I guess it's here to stay.
I think we should not recommend this for external use, or at least
ask users to tell us what they are using this for.
Given that we expect these to be used mainly/only internally,
get-file/list-files are fine as names.
The other issue is that one has to be careful to always do
status list-files 2>/dev/null
to support non-embedded builds.
Closes#11555
A lot of terminals support CSI Ps S. Currently we only allow them
to use scrollback-up if they advertise it via XTGETTCAP. This seems
surprising; it's better to make visible in fish script whether this
is supposed to be working. The canonical place is in "bind ctrl-l"
output.
The downside here is that we need to expose something that's rarely
useful. But the namespace pollution is not so bad, and this gives
users a nice paper trail instead of having to look in the source code.
