`grep -Fx` will match fixed strings over the entire line.
`status list-files foo` will match anything that starts with "foo".
Since we always pass a suffix here, that's the same thing.
If we really cared, we could do `string match "*.$suffix"` or similar.
Fixes#12060
Historically, Sphinx was required when building "standalone" builds,
else they would have no man pages.
This means that commit 0709e4be8b (Use standalone code paths by
default, 2025-10-26) broke man pages for users who build from a
tarball where non-standalone builds would use prebuilt docs.
Add a hack to use prebuilt docs again.
In future, we'll remove prebuilt docs, see #12052.
Looks like macOS packages didn't have docs??
I noticed via our Cargo warning about sphinx-build.
macOS has a variety of pythons installed:
bash-3.2$ type -a python python3
python is /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python
python3 is /opt/homebrew/bin/python3
python3 is /usr/local/bin/python3
python3 is /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin/python3
python3 is /usr/bin/python3
by default, "uv --no-managed-python" uses python3 (homebrew), but
"python" (and "pip") use the other one. Make uv use the same as
our scripts. Not all uv commands support "--python" today, so set
UV_PYTHON.
Use the pinned versions of Sphinx + dependencies, for reproducibility
and correctness. (Specifically, this gives us proper OSC 8
hyperlinks when /bin/sphinx-build is affected by a packaging bug,
see https://github.com/orgs/sphinx-doc/discussions/14048)
Ideally we want to credit reported-by/helped-by etc. but we'd need
to ask the GitHub API for this information.
Also we should use %(trailers) if possible.
HistoryIdentifier was an over-engineered way of annotating history items
with the paths that were found to be valid, for autosuggestion hinting.
It wasn't persisted to the file. Let's just get rid of this.
Use fstat() instead of lseek() to determine history file size.
Pass around the file_id instead of recomputing it.
This saves a few syscalls; no behavior change is expected.
Historically,
- our "man" wrapper prepends /usr/share/fish/man to $MANPATH
- "__fish_print_help" only operates on /usr/share/fish/man, to it
accesses that directly
However standalone builds -- where /usr/share/fish/man may not exist
-- have complicated things; we temporarily materialize a fake man
directory.
Reuse __fish_print_help instead of duplicating this.
Part of #12037
I don't know if anyone has installed mandoc/groff but not man.
Since 4.1 we officially require "man" as dependency (hope that works
out; we're missing some standardization, see #12037). Remove the
fallback with the old mandoc/nroff logic. This makes the next commit
slightly simpler -- which is not enough reason by itself, but we want
to do this anyway at some point.
We always try to prepend our man path to $MANPATH before calling man.
But this is not necessary when we're gonna display the output of
"status get-file man/man1/abbr.1".
Overriding man pages can cause issues like
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/11472https://gitlab.com/man-db/man-db/-/merge_requests/15
which by themselves are maybe not enough reason to avoid exporting
MANPATH, but given that embedded man pages might become the only
choice in future (see #12037), we should reduce the scope of our
custom MANPATH.
These are code clones, apart from the fact that __fish_print_help
doesn't have the '{' case, because alt-h/f1 will never find that.
But adding it doesn't really hurt because it's unlikely that the user
will have a manpage for '{'. Extract a function.
These were added automatically when we used the `--strict` flag with
gettext commands. We stopped using this flag, but existing empty
comments are not automatically deleted, so it is done here manually.
Closes#12038
Also use the correct OSC number.
Note that this only works on few terminals (such as iTerm2). Not sure
if it's worth for us to have this feature but I guess multiple users
have requested it.
The section on build_tools/style.fish was stale. That tool does not
automagically format unstaged changes or the last commit's changes
anymore. Relying on such tools is bad practice anyway, people should
configure their editor to fix the style violations at the source.
Replace "before committing" with neutral phrasing.
Remove the redundant mention of "cargo fmt" and "clippy". Use of
clippy goes without saying for Rust projects. Instead, add another
mention of "build_tools/checks" which also does clippy as well as
translation update checks (which are commonly needed).
Drop the "testing with CMake" part since it's a legacy thing and
basically never needed, especially by new faces.
Use semantic line breaks in the paragraphs starting at "When in doubt".
- this is not specific to fish and only relevant to people who push
directly to master
- we don't push directly to master as often anymore
- I don't think we used it much in practice (when we should have).
- a good portion of contributions is pushed with jj which probably
does this differently
Let's remove it even though this is a nice piece of documentation.
I guess we could add it back to doc_internal/ if we have the capacity
to maintain it.
ja: the motivation for our own crate is
1. the tempfile crate is probably overkill for such a small
piece of functionality (given that we already assume Unix)
2. we want to have full control over the few temp files we
do create
Closes#12028
Since the parent commit, these tests fail repeatedly in macOS GitHub
Actions CI: complete-group-order.py, nullterm.py, scrollback.py and
set_color.py. They run fine in isolation.
We'll fix the flaky system tests soon (#11815) but until then, remove
parallelism from macOS CI.
Unlike other shells, fish tries to make it easy to work with multiline
commands. Arguably, it's often better to use a full text editor but
the shell can feel more convenient.
Spreading long commands into multiple lines can improve readability,
especially when there is some semantic grouping (loops, pipelines,
command substitutions, quoted parts). Note that in Unix shell, every
quoted string can span multiple lines, like Python's triple quotes,
so the barrier to writing a multiline command is quite low.
However these commands are not autosuggested. From
1c4e5cadf2 (commitcomment-150853293)
> the reason we don't offer multi-line autosuggestion is that they
> can cause the command line to "jump" to make room for the second
> and third lines, if you're at the bottom of your terminal.
This jumping (as done by nushell for example) might be surprising,
especially since there is no limit on the height of a command.
Let's maybe avoid this jumping by rendering only however many lines
from the autosuggestion can fit on the screen without scrolling.
The truncation is hinted at by a single ellipsis ("…") after the
last suggested character, just like when a single-line autosuggestion
is truncated. (We might want to use something else in future.)
To implement this, query for the cursor position after every command,
so we know the y-position of the shell prompt within the terminal
window (whose height we already know).
Also, after we register a terminal window resize, query for the cursor
position before doing anything else (until we od #12004, only height
changes are relevant), to prevent this scenario:
1. move prompt to bottom of terminal
2. reduce terminal height
3. increase terminal height
4. type a command that triggers a multi-line autosuggestion
5. observe that it would fail to truncate properly
As a refresher: when we fail to receive a query response, we always
wait for 2 seconds, except if the initial query had also failed,
see b907bc775a (Use a low TTY query timeout only if first query
failed, 2025-09-25).
If the terminal does not support cursor position report (which is
unlikely), show at most 1 line worth of autosuggestion. Note that
either way, we don't skip multiline commands anymore. This might make
the behavior worse on such terminals, which are probably not important
enough. Alternatively, we could use no limit for such terminals,
that's probably the better fallback behavior. The only reason I didn't
do that yet is to stay a little bit closer to historical behavior.
Storing the prompt's position simplifies scrollback-push and the mouse
click handler, which no longer need to query. Move some associated
code to the screen module.
Technically we don't need to query for cursor position if the previous
command was empty. But for now we do, trading a potential optimization
for andother simplification.
Disable this feature in pexpect tests for now, since those are still
missing some terminal emulation features.
I think the interruption event is grouped next to the check-exit one
because it used to be implemented as check exit but with a global flag
(I didn't check whether that applied to master).
Move it to the logical place.
The readline state is never finished before the very first loop
iteration. Move the check for rls.finished next to the one that
implements "read -n1" -- in future we might use the return value
for both.
For the same reason as before (upcoming multi-line autosuggestions),
reapply 1fdf37cc4a (__fish_echo: fully overwrite lines, 2025-09-17)
after it was reverted in b7fabb11ac (Make command run by __fish_echo
output to TTY for color detection, 2025-10-05)
(Make command run by __fish_echo output
to TTY for color detection, 2025-10-05). Use clear-to-end-of-screen
to allow making "ls" output directly to the terminal.
Alternatively, we could create a pseudo TTY (e.g. call something like
"unbuffer ls --color=auto").
Not sure if this will be useful but the fact that we use very
few Unicode characters, suggests that we are insecure about
this. Having some kind of central and explicit listing might help
future decision-making. Obviously, completions and translations use
more characters, but those are not as central.
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
Commit eecc223 (Recognize and disable mouse-tracking CSI events,
2021-02-06) made fish disable mouse reporting whenever we receive a
mouse event. This was because at the time we didn't have a parser
for mouse inputs. We do now, so let's allow users to toggle mouse
support with
printf '\e[?1000h'
printf '\e[?1000l'
Currently the only mouse even we support is left click (to move cursor
in commandline, select pager items).
Part of #4918
See #12026
[ja: tweak patch and commit message]
Since commit 7e3fac561d (Query terminal only just before reading
from it, 2025-09-25),
fish -c 'read; cat'
fails to turn ICANON back on for cat.
Even before that commit, I don't know how this ever worked. Before or
after, we'd call tcsetattr() only to set our shell modes, not the
ones for external commands (term_donate)
I also don't think there's a good reason why we set modes twice
(between term_donate () and old_modes), but I'll make a minimal (=
safer) change for now until I understand this.
The only change from 7e3fac561d was that instead of doing things in
this order:
terminal_init()
set_shell_modes
read
reader_push()
reader_readline()
save & restore old_modes
cat
we now do
read
reader_push()
terminal_init()
set_shell_modes()
reader_readline()
save & restore old_modes
cat
So we call set_shell_modes() just before saving modes,
which obviously makes us save the wrong thing.
Again, not sure how that wasn't a problem before.
Fix it by saving modes before calling terminal_init().
Fixes#12024
The new completions are like
help index#default-shell
Add a hack to use the "introduction" here.
Not sure if this is worth it but I guess we should be okay because
we at least have test for completions.
In future, we should find a better way to declare that "introduction"
is our landing page.
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
This is useful for the next commit where tab completion produces
tokens like "foo#bar". Some cases are missing though, because we
still need to tell this function what's the previous character.
I guess next commit could also use a different sigil.
Commit 0709e4be8b (Use standalone code paths by default, 2025-10-26)
made CMake builds enable the embed-data feature. This means that
crates/build-man-pages/build.rs will run "sphinx-build" to create
man pages for embedding, now also for CMake builds.
Let's use the sphinx-build found by CMake at configuration-time.
This makes VARS_FOR_CARGO depend on cmake/Docs.cmake, so adjust the
order accordingly.
This has probably been failing intermittently in CI ever since it
was introduced. We have a reproducible test now, so let's disable
this test in CI for now to reduce noise.
See #12018
If I run
history append 'echo -X'
and type "echo -x", it renders as "echo -X".
This is not wrong but can be pretty confusing, (since the
autosuggestion is the same length as the command line).
Let's favor the case typed by the user in this specific case I guess.
Should add a full solution later.
Part of #11452
There is no need to use `'\0'`, we can use `0u8` instead.
`maxaccum` does not clearly indicate what it represents; use
`accum_capacity` instead.
To get the size of `accum`, we can use `accum.len()`, which is easier to
understand.
Use `copy_from_slice` instead of `std::ptr::copy`. This avoids the
unsafe block, at the cost of a runtime length check. If we don't want
this change for performance reasons, we might consider using
`std::ptr::copy_nonoverlapping` here (which is done by `copy_from_slice`
internally).
Part of #12008
If a language is specified using only the language code, without a
region identifier, assume that the user prefers translations from any
variant of the language over the next fallback option. For example, when
a user sets `LANGUAGE=zh:pt`, assume that the user prefers both `zh_CN` and
`zh_TW` over the next fallback option. The precedence of the different
variants of a language will be arbitrary. In this example, with the
current set of relevant available catalogs (`pt_BR`, `zh_CN`, `zh_TW`),
the effective precedence will be either `zh_CN:zh_TW:pt_BR` or
`zh_TW:zh_CN:pt_BR`.
Users who want more control over the order can
specify variants to get the results they want.
For example:
- `LANGUAGE=zh_TW:zh:pt` will result in `zh_TW:zh_CN:pt_BR`.
- `LANGUAGE=zh_CN:pt:zh` will result in `zh_CN:pt_BR:zh_TW`.
- `LANGUAGE=zh_CN:pt` will result in `zh_CN:pt_BR`.
English is always used as the last fallback.
This approach (like the previous approach) differs from GNU gettext
semantics, which map region-less language codes to on specific "default"
variant of the language, without specifying how this default is chosen.
We want to avoid making such choices and believe it is better to utilize
translations from all language variants we have available when users do
not explicitly specify their preferred variant. This way, users have an
easier time discovering localization availability, and can be more
explicit in their preferences if they don't like the defaults.
If there are conflicts with gettext semantics, users can also set locale
variables without exporting them, so fish uses different values than its
child processes.
Closes#12011
Some terminals handle invalid OSC 7 working directories by falling
back to the home directory, which is worse than if they didn't support
OSC 7. Try to work arond the common case (when $MSYSTEM is set).
local wezterm = require 'wezterm'
local config = wezterm.config_builder()
config.default_prog = {
'C:\\msys64\\msys2_shell.cmd',
'-ucrt64',
'-defterm',
'-here',
'-no-start',
'-shell', 'fish'
}
config.default_cwd = 'C:\\msys64\\home\\xxx'
return config
Upstream issues:
- https://github.com/wezterm/wezterm/discussions/7330
- https://invent.kde.org/utilities/konsole/-/merge_requests/1136Closes#11981
This was accidentally turned on because c31e769f7d (Use XTVERSION for
terminal-specific workarounds, 2025-09-21) used the wrong argument
order. Fix that.
I could reproduce both
tests/checks/tmux-empty-prompt.fish
tests/pexpects/autosuggest.py
failing in ASan CI. I didn't bisect it, since I don't think there is
a problematic code change. Bump the timeout a bit.
Closes#12016
This merges changes that make thread pools instanced. We no longer have
a single global thread pool. This results in significant simplifications
especially in the reader (no more "canary").
Enigmatic error:
1 | >>> FROM alpine:3.22 # updatecli.d/docker.yml
ERROR: failed to build: failed to solve: dockerfile parse error on line 1: FROM requires either one or three arguments
Fixes daadd81ab6 (More automation for updating dependencies, 2025-10-31).
When users update fish by replacing files, existing shells might
throw weird errors because internal functions in share/functions/
might have changed.
This is easy to remedy by restarting the shell,
but I guess it would be nice if old shells kept using old data.
This is somewhat at odds with lazy-loading.
But we can use the standalone mode. Turn that on by default.
Additionally, this could simplify packaging. Some packages incorrectly
put third party files into /usr/share/fish/completion/ when they ought
to use /usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/ for that. That packaging
mistake can make file conflicts randomly appearing when either fish
or foo ships a completion for foo. Once we actually stop installing
/usr/share/fish/completions, there will no longer be a conflict (for
better or worse, things will silently not work, unless packagers
notice that the directory doesn't actually exist anymore).
The only advantage of having /usr/share/fish/ on the file system is
discoverability. But getting the full source code is better anyway.
Note that we still install (redundant) $__fish_data_dir when using
CMake. This is to not unnecessarily break both
1. already running (old) shells as users upgrade to 4.2
2. plugins (as mentioned in an earlier commit),
We can stop installing $__fish_data_dir once we expect 99% of users
to upgrade from at least 4.2.
If we end up reverting this, we should try to get rid of the embed-data
knob in another way, but I'm not sure how.
Closes#11921
To-do:
- maybe make it a feature flag so users can turn it off without
recompiling with "set -Ua no-embed-data".
The next commit will make embed-data the default also for CMake builds.
Even if we revert that, from a user perspective we better call it
"Building fish with Cargo" rather than "Building fish with embedded
data".
While at it, let's list the user-facing differences when building
with Cargo as opposed to CMake.
I suppose it's not needed to mention :
> An empty ``/etc/fish/config.fish`` as well as empty directories
> ``/etc/fish/{functions,completions,conf.d}``
because that's obvious.
Since installation via Cargo is already aimed at developers, maybe
add "uv run" here to reliably install a recent version of Sphinx.
A small extra step up-front seems better than not having docs.
As mentioned in a previous commit ("Don't special-case __fish_data_dir
in standalone builds"), we want to enable embed-data by default.
To reduce the amount of breakage, we'll keep installing files,
and keep defining those variables at least for some time.
We have no use for $__fish_data_dir apart from helping plugins and
improving upgrade experience, but we still use $__fish_help_dir;
so this will allow installed "standalone" builds to use local docs
via our "help" function.
We use absence of "$__fish_data_dir[1]" as criteria to use the
"standalone" code paths that use "status list-files/get-file" instead
of $__fish_data_dir.
However, third party software seems slow to react to such breaking
changes, see https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide/issues/1045
So keep $__fish_data_dir for now to give plugins more time.
This commit makes us ignore $__fish_data_dir on standalone builds
even if defined; a following commit will actually define it again.
I guess the approach in b815fff292 (Set $__fish_data_dir to empty
for embed-data builds, 2025-04-01) made sense back when we didn't
anticipate switching to standalone builds by default yet.
Some packagers such as Homebrew use the "relocatable-tree" logic,
i.e. "fish -d config" shows paths like:
/usr/local/etc/fish
/usr/local/share/fish
Other packagers use -DSYSCONFDIR=/etc, meaning we get
/etc/fish
/usr/share/fish
which we don't treat as relocatable tree,
because "/usr/etc/fish" does **not** exists.
To get embed-data in shape for being used as a default for installed
builds, we want it to support both cases.
Today, embed-data builds only handle the "in-build-dir" logic.
Teach them also about the relocatable-tree logic. This will make
embed-data builds installed via Homebrew (i.e. CMake) use the correct
sysconfdir ("/usr/local/etc").
This means that if standalone fish is moved to ~/.local/bin/fish
and both ~/.local/share/fish as well as ~/.local/etc/fish exist,
fish will use the relocatable tree paths.
But only embedded files will be used, although a following commit will
make standalone builds define $__fish_data_dir and $__fish_help_dir
again; the latter will be used to look up help.
(This doesn't matter in practice because we always override SYSCONFDIR
in CMake builds.)
According to https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/command/install.html
default paths look like
Type variable default
INCLUDE ${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR} include
SYSCONF ${CMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR} etc
DATA ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATADIR} <DATAROOT dir>
MAN ${CMAKE_INSTALL_MANDIR} <DATAROOT dir>/man
so "etc" is supposed to be a sibling of "include", not a child of DATA
(aka "share/").
This allows us to remove a hack where we needed to know the data dir
in non-standalone builds.
Today, this file is only supported in CMake builds. This is the only
place where CMake builds currently need $__fish_data_dir as opposed
to using "status get-file".
Let's embed __fish_build_paths so we can treat it like other assets.
This enables users of "embed-data" to do "rm -rf $__fish_data_dir"
(though that might break plugins).
It's always the CMake output directory, so call it
FISH_CMAKE_BINARY_DIR. It's possible to set it via some other build
system but if such builds exist, they are likely subtly broken, or
at least with the following commit which adds the assumption that
"share/__fish_build_paths.fish.in" exists in this directory.
We could even call it CMAKE_BINARY_DIR but let's namespace it to make
our use more obvious. Also, stop using the $CMAKE environment variable,
it's not in our namespace.
Google cloud CLI ships >10k man pages for subcommands, but the
completions are not useful because they don't know to replace
underscores by spaces, e.g. in:
complete -c gcloud_access-approval_requests_approve
We also ship gcloud completions, so the generated ones should not
be used.
The new automation workflow doesn't sign the Git tag or the tarball as
we used to. Since the tag is still created locally, sign it directly.
For signing the tarball; build it locally and compare the extracted
tarball with the one produced by GitHub.
Closes#11996
When building from a clean tag, set the date at the bottom of the
manpages to the tag creation date. This allows to "diff -r" the
extracted tarball to check that CI produces the same as any other
system.
Part of #11996
In future, we should ask "renovatebot" to update these version. I
don't have an opinion on whether to use "uv" or something else, but
I think we do want lockfiles, and I don't know of a natural way to
install Sphinx via Cargo.
No particular reason for this Python version.
Part of #11996
GitHub CI uses shallow clones where no Git tags available, which
breaks tests/checks/sphinx-markdown-changelog.fish.
Somehow tests/checks/sphinx-markdown-changelog.fish doesn't seem to
have run CI before the next commit (or perhaps the python3 change
from commit "tests/sphinx-markdown-changelog: workaround for mawk",
2025-10-26?).
Anway, to prevent failure, disable that part of this test in CI
for now; the point of the test is mostly to check the RST->Markdown
conversion and syntax.
- Convert update checks in check.sh to mechanical updates.
- Use https://www.updatecli.io/ for now, which is not as
full-featured as renovatebot or dependabot, but I found it easier
to plug arbitrary shell scripts into.
- Add updaters for
- ubuntu-latest-lts (which is similar to GitHub Action's "ubuntu-latest").
- FreeBSD image used in Cirrus (requires "gcloud auth login" for now,
see https://github.com/cirruslabs/cirrus-ci-docs/issues/1315)
- littlecheck and widecharwidth
- Update all dependencies except Cargo ones.
- As a reminder, our version policies are arbitrary and can be changed
as needed.
- To-do:
- Add updaters for GitHub Actions (such as "actions/checkout").
Renovatebot could do that.
Most of our docker images are for an OS release which is past EOL. Most
are not checked in CI, which leads to more staleness. It's not
obvious which docker are expected to work and which are best-effort.
I've updated all of them in the past, which would be slightly easier
if we got rid of the redundancy.
Remove most unused ones for now, to reduce confusion and maintenance
effort. Some Ubuntu images are replaced by
docker/ubuntu-latest-lts.Dockerfile
docker/ubuntu-oldest-supported.Dockerfile
Leave around the fedora:latest and opensuse/tumbleweed:latest images
for now, though I don't think there's a reason to publish them in
build_docker_images until we add CI jobs.
We can add some images back (even past-EOL versions) but preferrably
with a documentted update policy (see next commit) and CI tests
(could be a nightly/weekly/pre-release check).
If fish is invoked as
execve("/bin/fish", "fish")
on OpenBSD, "status fish-path" will output "fish". As a result,
our wrapper for fish_indent tries to execute "./fish" if it exists.
We actually no longer need to call any executable, since "fish_indent"
is available as builtin now.
Stop using the wrapper, fixing the OpenBSD issue.
As mentioned in earlier commits, "status fish-path" is either an
absolute path or "fish". At startup, we try to canonicalize this
path. This is wrong for the "fish" case -- we'll do subtly wrong
things if a file with that name happens to exist in the current
working directory.
"cargo test" captures stdout by default but not stderr.
So it's probably still useful to suppress test output like
in function 'recursive1'
in function 'recursive2'
[repeats many times]
This was done by should_suppress_stderr_for_tests() which has been
broken. Fix that, but only for the relevant cases instead of setting
a global.
On some platforms, Rust's std::env::current_exe() may use relative
paths from at least argv[0]. That function also canonicalizes the
path, so we could only detect this case by duplicating logic from
std::env::current_exe() (not sure if that's worth it).
Relative path canonicalization seems potentially surprising, especially
after fish has used "cd". Let's try to reduce surprise by saving the
value we compute at startup (before any "cd"), and use only that.
The remaining problem is that
creat("/some/directory/with/FISH");
chdir("/some/directory/with/");
execve("/bin/fish", "FISH", "-c", "status fish-path")
surprisingly prints "/some/directory/with/FISH" on some platforms.
But that requires the user actively trying to break things (passing
a relative argv[0] that doesn't match the cwd).
When "status fish-path" fails, we fall back to argv[0],
hoping that it contains an absolute path to fish, or at
least is equal to "fish" (which can happen on OpenBSD, see
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/60560#issuecomment-489425888).
I don't think it makes sense to duplicate logic that's probably
already in std::env::current_exe().
Since c8001b5023 (encoding: use UTF-8 everywhere, 2025-10-18), a
change in locale variables can no longer cause us to toggle between
"…" or "...". Have the control flow reflect this.
We use the following locale-variables via locale-aware C functions
(to look them up, grep for "libc::$function_name"):
- LC_CTYPE: wcwidth
- LC_MESSAGES: strerror, strerror
- LC_NUMERIC: localeconv/localeconv_l, snprintf (only in tests)
- LC_TIME: strftime
Additionally, we interpret LC_MESSAGES in our own code.
As of today, the PCRE2 library does not seem to use LC_MESSAGES
(their error messages are English-only); and I don't think it uses
LC_CTYPE unless we use "pcre2_maketables()".
Let's make it more obvious which locale categories are actually used
by setting those instead of LC_ALL.
This means that instead of logging the return value of «
setlocale(LC_ALL, "") » (which is an opaque binary string on Linux),
we can log the actual per-category locales that are in effect.
This means that there's no longer really a reason to hardcode a log
for the LC_MESSAGES locale. We're not logging at early startup but
we will log if any locale var had been set at startup.
Commit 046db09f90 (Try to set LC_CTYPE to something UTF-8 capable
(#8031), 2021-06-06) forced UTF-8 encoding if available.
Since c8001b5023 (encoding: use UTF-8 everywhere, 2025-10-18) we no
longer override LC_CTYPE, since we no longer use it for anything like
mbrtowc or iswalpha.
However there is one remaining use: our fallbacks to system wcwidth().
If we are started as
LC_ALL=C fish
then wcwidth('😃') will fail to return the correct value, even if
the UTF-8 locale would have been available.
Restore the previous behavior, so locale variables don't affect
emoji width.
This is consistent with the direction in c8001b5023 which stops us
from falling back to ASCII characters if our desired multibyte locale
is missing (that was not the ideal criteria).
In future we should maybe stop using wcwidth().
Commit 8dc3982408 (Always use LC_NUMERIC=C internally (#8204),
2021-10-13) made us use LC_NUMERIC=C internally, to make C library
functions behave in a predictable way.
We no longer use library functions affected by LC_NUMERIC[*]..
Since the effective value of LC_NUMERIC no longer matters, let's
simplify things by using the user locale again, like we do for the
other locale variables.
The printf crate still uses libc::snprintf() which respects LC_NUMERIC,
but it looks like "cargo test" creates a separate process per crate,
and the printf crate does not call setlocale().
* since c8001b5023 (encoding: use UTF-8 everywhere, 2025-10-18)
we always use UTF-8, which simplifies docs.
* emphasize that we (as of an earlier commit) document only the locale
variables actually used by fish. We could change this in future,
as long as the docs make it obvious whether it's about fish or
external programs.
* make things a bit more concise
* delete a stale comment - missing encoding support is no longer a problem
We may have used LC_COLLATE in the past via libc functions but I
don't think we do today. In future, we could document the variables
not used by fish, but we should make it obvious what we're documenting.
These include variables that are ignored by fish, which seems
questionable for __fish_set_locale? The the effect seems benign
because __fish_set_locale will do nothing if any of those variables
is defined. Maybe we can get rid of this function eventually.
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 _").
Our test driver unsets all LC_* variables as well as LANGUAGE, and
it sets LANG=C, to make errors show up as
set_color: Unknown color 'reset'
rather than
set_color: Unknown color “reset”
It also sets LC_CTYPE which is hardly necessary since c8001b5023
(encoding: use UTF-8 everywhere, 2025-10-18).
The only place where we need it seems to be the use of GNU sed as
called in tests/checks/sphinx-markdown-changelog.fish.
In future we might want to avoid these issues by setting LANG=C.UTF-8
in the test_driver again.
These are obsolete as of c8001b5023 (encoding: use UTF-8 everywhere,
2025-10-18). The only place where we still read the user's LC_CTYPE
is in libc::wcwidth(), but that's kind of a regression -- we should
always be using a UTF-8 LC_CTYPE if possible -- which will be fixed
by a following commit.
Commit c8001b5023 (encoding: use UTF-8 everywhere, 2025-10-18)
removed some places where we fallback to ASCII if no UTF-8 encoding
is available. That fallback may have been a reasonable approximator
for glyph availability in some cases but it's probably also wrong in
many cases (SSH, containers..).
There are some cases where we still have this sort of fallback.
Remove them for consistency.
Also merge them into one warning because some of these lines wrap
on a small (80 column) terminal, which looks weird. The reason they
wrap might be the long prefix ("warning: fish-build-man-pages@0.0.0:").
This fails:
tests/test_driver.py ~/.local/opt/fish/bin tests/checks/config-paths-standalone.fish
because we don't expect to run from a relocatable tree.
Their msgfmt doesn't support --output-file=- yet, so use a temporary
file if "msgfmt" doesn't support "--check-format". Else we should
have GNU gettext which supports both.
See #11982
There is no need to allocate a new box in these cases.
Flagged by nightly clippy.
There's also no need for the box at all; the comment is no longer
valid, especially because Rust const-propagates by default.
Closes#12014
Using gettext by calling it once on initialization and then reusing the
result prevents changes to the messages as when locale variables change.
A call to the gettext implementation should be made every time the
message is used to handle language changes.
Closes#12012
For historical reasons[^1], most of our Rust tests are in src/tests,
which
1. is unconventional (Rust unit tests are supposed to be either in the
same module as the implementation, or in a child module).
This makes them slightly harder to discover, navigate etc.
2. can't test private APIs (motivating some of the "exposed for
testing" comments).
Fix this by moving tests to the corresponding implementation file.
Reviewed with
git show $commit \
--color-moved=dimmed-zebra \
--color-moved-ws=allow-indentation-change
- Shared test-only code lives in
src/tests/prelude.rs,
src/builtins/string/test_helpers.rs
src/universal_notifier/test_helpers.rs
We might want to slim down the prelude in future.
- I put our two benchmarks below tests ("mod tests" followed by "mod bench").
Verified that "cargo +nightly bench --features=benchmark" still
compiles and runs.
[^1]: Separate files are idiomatic in most other languages; also
separate files makes it easy to ignore when navigating the call graph.
("rg --vimgrep | rg -v tests/"). Fortunately, rust-analyzer provides
a setting called references.excludeTests for textDocument/references,
the textDocument/prepareCallHierarchy family, and potentially
textDocument/documentHighlight (which can be used to find all
references in the current file).
Closes#11992
Commit 1fe6b28877 (rustfmt.toml: specify edition to allow 2024 syntax,
2025-10-19) mentions that "cargo fmt" has different behavior than
"rustfmt" before that commit. Probably because when .rustfmt.toml
exists, rustfmt implicitly uses a different edition (2018?) that
doesn't support c"" yet. That commit bumped the edition to 2024,
which caused yet another deviation from "cargo fmt":
Error writing files: failed to resolve mod `tests`: cannot parse /home/johannes/git/fish-shell/src/wutil/tests.rs
error: expected identifier, found reserved keyword `gen`
--> /home/johannes/git/fish-shell/src/tests/topic_monitor.rs:48:9
|
48 | for gen in &mut gens_list {
| ^^^ expected identifier, found reserved keyword
This has since been fixed by
00784248db (Update to rust 2024 edition, 2025-10-22).
Let's add a test so that such changes won't randomly break "rustfmt"
again.
Fix that by using 2021 edition, like we do in Cargo.toml.
In future, rustfmt should probably default to a current edition (or
maybe read the edition from Cargo.toml?) Not yet sure which one is the
upstream issue, maybe https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt/issues/5650
Prior to this commit, there was a singleton set of "debouncers" used to run
code in the background because it might perform blocking I/O - for example,
for syntax highlighting or computing autosuggestions. The complexity arose
because we might push or pop a reader. For example, a long-blocking, stale
autosuggestion thread might suddenly complete, but the reader it was for
(e.g. for `builtin_read`) is now popped. This was the basis for complex
logic like the "canary" to detect a dead Reader.
Fix this by making the Debouncers per-reader. This removes some globals and
complicated logic; it also makes this case trivial: a long-running thread
that finishes after the Reader is popped, will just produce a Result and
then go away, with nothing reading out that Result.
This also simplifies tests because there's no longer a global thread pool
to worry about. Furthermore we can remove other gross hacks like ForceSend.
This concerns threads spawned by the reader for tasks like syntax
highlighting that may need to perform I/O.
These are different from other threads typically because they need to
"report back" and have their results handled.
Create a dedicated module where this logic can live.
This also eliminates the "global" thread pool.
Sometimes we need to spawn threads to service internal processes. Make
this use a separate thread pool from the pool used for interactive tasks
(like detecting which arguments are files for syntax highlighting).
Make this pass on both macOS and Linux.
This was an obnoxious and uninteresting test to debug and so I used
claude code. It insists this is due to differences in pty handling between
macOS and Linux. Specifically it writes:
The test was failing inconsistently because macOS and Linux have different
PTY scrollback behavior after rendering prompts with right-prompts.
Root cause: After fish writes a right-prompt to the rightmost column,
different PTY drivers position the cursor differently:
- macOS PTY: Cursor wraps to next line, creating a blank line
- Linux PTY: Cursor stays on same line, no blank line
This is OS kernel-level PTY driver behavior, not terminal emulator behavior.
Fix: Instead of hardcoding platform-specific offsets, detect the actual
terminal behavior by probing the output:
1. Capture with -S -12 and check if the first line is blank
2. If blank (macOS behavior), use -S -13 to go back one more line
3. If not blank (Linux behavior), use -S -12
Also split the C-l (clear-screen) command into its own send-keys call
with tmux-sleep after it, ensuring the screen clears before new output
appears. This improves test stability on both platforms.
The solution is platform-independent and adapts to actual terminal
behavior rather than making assumptions based on OS.
This lint will be triggered by a forthcoming change, see
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/11990#discussion_r2455299865
It bans the usage of
```rust
fn hello() -> impl Debug {
let useful_name = xxx;
useful_name
}
```
in favour of
```rust
fn hello() -> impl Debug {
xxx
}
```
Which is less humanly-understandable.
Part of #11990
As mentioned in 6896898769 (Add [lints] table to suppress lints
across all our crates, 2024-01-12), we can use workspace lints in
Cargo.toml now that we have MSRV >=1.74 and since we probably don't
support building without cargo.
This implies moving some lints from src/lib.rs to "workspace.lints".
While at it, address some of them insrtead.
Previously, if test setup didn't output word 'prompt' it would wait 5 second
timeout. This affected tmux-wrapping.fish and tmux-read.fish tests.
Change it so initialization function wait until any output and error out
on timeout.
Let `y=0` be the first line of the rendered commandline. Then, in final
rendering, the final value of the desired cursor was measured from
`y=scroll_amount`. This wasn't a problem because
```
if !MIDNIGHT_COMMANDER_HACK.load() {
self.r#move(0, 0);
}
```
implicitly changed the actual cursor to be measured from `y=0` to `y=scroll_amount`.
This happened because the cursor moved to `y=scroll_amount` but had its
`y` value set to 0. Since the actual and desired cursors were both measured
from the same line, the code was correct, just unintuitive.
Change this to always measure cursor position from the start of the
rendered commandline.
Reproduction:
fish -C '
function fish_prompt
echo left-prompt\n
end
function fish_right_prompt
echo right-prompt
end
'
and pressing Enter would not preserve the line with right prompt.
This occurred because Screen::cursor_is_wrapped_to_own_line assumed
the last prompt line always had index 0. However, commit 606802daa (Make
ScreenData track multiline prompt, 2025-10-15) changed this so the last
prompt line's index is now `Screen.actual.visible_prompt_lines - 1`.
Screen::cursor_is_wrapped_to_own_line also didn't account for situations
where commandline indentation was 0.
Fix Screen::cursor_is_wrapped_to_own_line and add tests for prompts with
empty last lines.
Reproduction:
fish -C '
function fish_prompt
echo left-prompt\n
end
function fish_right_prompt
echo right-prompt
end
'
This was caused by an off-by-one error in initial Screen.desired resizing
from commit 606802daa (Make ScreenData track multiline prompt, 2025-10-15).
On MSYS/Cygwin, when select/poll wait on a descriptor and `dup2` is used
to copy into that descriptor, they return the descriptor as "ready",
unlike Linux (timeout) and MacOS (EBADF error).
The test specifically checked for Linux and MaxOS behaviors, failing on
Cygwin/MSYS. So relax it to also allow that behavior.
POSIX permissions on Windows is problematic. MSYS and Cygwin have
a "acl/noacl" when mounting filesystems to specify how hard to try.
MSYS by default uses "noacl", which prevents some permissions to be set.
So disable the failing checks.
Note: Cygwin by default does use "acl", which may allow the check to
pass (unverified). But to be consereative, and because MSYS is the only
one providing a Fish-4.x package, we'll skip.
The test always fail on Cygwin (with rare exceptions) so disable it
for now.
A likely cause is issue #11933, so this change should be revisited
once that issue is fixed.
Symbolic links on Windows/Cygwin are complicated and dependent on
multiple factors (env variable, file system, ...). Limitations in the
implementation causes the tests failures and there is little that Fish
can do about it. So disable those tests on Cygwin.
Assume that UTF-8 is used everywhere. This allows for significant
simplification of encoding-related functionality. We no longer need
branching on single-byte vs. multi-byte locales, and we can get rid of
all the libc calls for encoding and decoding, replacing them with Rust's
built-in functionality, or removing them without replacement in cases
where their functionality is no longer needed.
Several tests are removed from `tests/checks/locale.fish`, since setting
the locale no longer impacts encoding behavior. We might want more
rigorous testing of UTF-8 handling instead.
Closes#11975
First, print prompt marker on repaint even if prompt is not visible.
Second, if we issue a clear at (0, 0) we need to restore marker.
This is necessary for features like Kitty's prompt navigation (`ctrl-shift-{jk}`),
which requires the prompt marker at the top of the scrolled command line
to actually jump back to the original state.
Closes#11911
Instead of pretending that prompt is always 1 line, track multiline
prompt in ScreenData.visible_prompt_lines and ScreenData.line_datas as
empty lines.
This enables:
- Trimming part of the prompt that leaves the viewport.
- Removing of the old hack needed for locating first prompt line.
- Fixing #11875.
Part of #11911
Commit 7db9553 (Fix regression causing off-by-one pager height on
truncated autosuggestion) adds line to pager if cursor located at
the start of line and previous line is softwrapped, even if line was
softwrapped normally and not by autosuggestion, giving pager too much space.
Fix that.
Part of #11911
Some string handling functions deal with `Vec<u8>` or `&[u8]`, which
have been referred to as `string` or `str` in the function names. This
is confusing, since they don't deal with Rust's `String` type. Use
`bytes` in the function names instead to reduce confusion.
Closes#11969
cargo fmt works but "rustfmt src/env_dispatch.rs" fails,
error: expected one of `!`, `)`, `,`, `.`, `::`, `?`, `{`, or an operator, found `"C"`
--> src/env_dispatch.rs:572:63
|
572 | let loc_ptr = unsafe { libc::setlocale(libc::LC_NUMERIC, c"C".as_ptr().cast()) };
| -^^
Fix that as suggested
Opt-in because we don't want failures not related to local changes,
see d93fc5eded (Revert "build_tools/check.sh: check that stable rust
is up-to-date", 2025-08-10).
For the same reason, it's not currently checked by CI, though we should
definitely have "renovatebot" do this in future.
Also, document the minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) policy. There's no
particular reason for this specific MSRV policy, but it's better than nothing,
since this will allow us to always update without thinking about it.
Closes#11960
Update our MSRV to Rust 1.85.
Includes fixes for lints which were previously suppressed due to them
relying on features added after Rust 1.70.
Rust 1.85 prints a warning when using `#[cfg(target_os = "cygwin")]`, so
we work around the one instance where this is a problem for now. This
workaround can be reverted when we update to Rust 1.86 or newer.
Certain old versions of macOS are no longer supported by Rust starting
with Rust 1.74, so this commit raises our macOS version requirement to
10.12.
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/09/25/Increasing-Apple-Version-Requirements/https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/11961#discussion_r2442415411Closes#11961
Also remove the check for WSL again, since that failure may be
covered by us checking for flock() success (else there's a bug in our
implementation or in WSL); we'll see if anyone runs into this again..
Closes#11963
This length modifier was reintroduced in
b7fe3190bb, which reverts
993b977c9b, a commit predating the removal
of redundant length modifiers in format strings.
Closes#11968
This commit adds `style_edition = "2024"` as a rustfmt config setting.
All other changes are automatically generated by `cargo fmt`.
The 2024 style edition fixes several bugs and changes some defaults.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/rust-2024/rustfmt-style-edition.html
Most of the changes made to our code result from a different sorting
method for `use` statements, improved ability to split long lines, and
contraction of short trailing expressions into single-line expressions.
While our MSRV is still 1.70, we use more recent toolchains for
development, so we can already benefit from the improvements of the new
style edition. Formatting is not require for building fish, so builds
with Rust 1.70 are not affected by this change.
More context can be found at
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/11630#issuecomment-3406937077Closes#11959
These comments should be placed on top of the line they're commenting on.
Multi-line postfix comments will no longer be aligned using rustfmt's
style edition 2024, so fix this now to prevent formatting issues later.
For consistency, single-line postfix comments are also moved.
Part of #11959
Update the regex to allow remote names which are allowed in git, like
`foo-bar`, `foo.bar` or `😜`. Do not try to artificially limit the
allowed remote names through the regex.
Closes#11941
On Cygwin, fsync() on the history and uvar file fails with "permission
denied". Work around this by opening the file in read-write mode
instead of read-only mode.
Closes#11948
Today fish script can't produce this type of behavior:
$ type fish_prompt
# Defined in embedded:functions/fish_prompt.fish @ line 2
The above is only created for autoloaded functions.
On standalone builds, "fish_config prompt choose" uses the "source"
builtin, making this line say is "Defined via `source`".
In future, we might want to make things consistent (one way or
the other).
If no "fish_right_prompt" is defined, then we also don't need to
define and save an empty one. We can do nothing, which seems cleaner.
It's also what "fish_config prompt choose" does. Git blame shows no
explicit reason for for this inconsistency.
Probably the implicit reason is that when both styles where introduced
(both in 69074c1591 (fish_config: Remove right prompt in `choose` and
`save`, 2021-09-26)), that was before the "fish_config prompt choose:
make right prompt hack less weird" commit, so the "prompt choose"
code path didn't know whether the prompt existed until after checking,
hence "--erase" was more suitable.. but that inconsistency is gone.
This is important for deterministic behavior across both standalone
and installed builds in "fish_config prompt list".
I later realized that we could use "path sort" I suppose, but why
not fix the problem for everyone.
Rather than first sourcing the prompt, and then erasing the right
prompt unless the prompt file defined the right prompt, start by
erasing the right prompt. This is simpler (needs no conditional).
Now that the « chsh -s $(command -v) » approach should work both
in and outside fish, it seems like we should use that.
Non-macOS users probably shouldn't do this, but there's already a
big warning above this section.
Fixes#11931
This is mysteriously failing intermittently on GitHub Actions CI
and OBS. We get
The CHECK on line 31 wants:
{{\\x1b\\[m}}{{\\x1b\\[4m}}fish default{{\\x1b\\[m}}
which failed to match line stdout:21:
\x1b[38;2;7;114;161m/bright/vixens\x1b[m \x1b[38;2;34;94;121mjump\x1b[m \x1b[38;2;99;175;208m|\x1b[m \x1b[m\x1b[4mfish default\x1b[m
and it doesn't look like it's produced by the "grep -A1" below,
because the later output looks correct.
See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/11923#discussion_r2417592216
This only builds, doesn't run tests. Use:
./build_fish_on_bsd.sh dragonflybsd_6_4 freebsd_14_0 netbsd_9_3 openbsd_7_4
To build on all of them.
Note they don't all build yet.
2025-10-12 19:00:59 -07:00
458 changed files with 100290 additions and 19785 deletions
This release fixes the following regressions identified in 4.1.0:
This release fixes the following problems identified in 4.2.0:
-Crash on invalid :doc:`function <cmds/function>` command (:issue:`11912`).
-When building from a tarball without Sphinx (that is, with ``-DBUILD_DOCS=OFF`` or when ``sphinx-build`` is not found),
builtin man pages and help files were missing, which has been fixed (:issue:`12052`).
-``fish_config``'s theme selector (the "colors" tab) was broken, which has been fixed (:issue:`12053`).
as well as the following regressions identified in 4.0.0:
fish 4.2.0 (released November 10, 2025)
=======================================
- Crash when passing negative PIDs to :doc:`wait <cmds/wait>` (:issue:`11929`).
Notable improvements and fixes
------------------------------
- History-based autosuggestions now include multi-line commands.
- A :ref:`transient prompt <transient-prompt>` containing more lines than the final prompt will now be cleared properly (:issue:`11875`).
- Taiwanese Chinese translations have been added.
- French translations have been supplemented (:issue:`11842`).
Deprecations and removed features
---------------------------------
- fish now assumes UTF-8 for character encoding even if the system does not have a UTF-8 locale.
Input bytes which are not valid UTF-8 are still round-tripped correctly.
For example, file paths using legacy encodings can still be used,
but may be rendered differently on the command line.
- On systems where no multi-byte locale is available,
fish will no longer fall back to using ASCII replacements for :ref:`Unicode characters <term-compat-unicode-codepoints>` such as "…".
Interactive improvements
------------------------
- The title of the terminal tab can now be set separately from the window title by defining the :doc:`fish_tab_title <cmds/fish_tab_title>` function (:issue:`2692`).
- fish now hides the portion of a multiline prompt that is scrolled out of view due to a huge command line. This prevents duplicate lines after repainting with partially visible prompt (:issue:`11911`).
-:doc:`fish_config prompt <cmds/fish_config>`'s ``choose`` and ``save`` subcommands have been taught to reset :doc:`fish_mode_prompt <cmds/fish_mode_prompt>` in addition to the other prompt functions (:issue:`11937`).
- fish no longer force-disables mouse capture (DECSET/DECRST 1000),
so you can use those commands
to let mouse clicks move the cursor or select completions items (:issue:`4918`).
- The :kbd:`alt-p` binding no longer adds a redundant space to the command line.
- When run as a login shell on macOS, fish now sets :envvar:`MANPATH` correctly when that variable was already present in the environment (:issue:`10684`).
- A Windows-specific case of the :doc:`web-based config <cmds/fish_config>` failing to launch has been fixed (:issue:`11805`).
- A MSYS2-specific workaround for Konsole and WezTerm has been added,
to prevent them from using the wrong working directory when opening new tabs (:issue:`11981`).
For distributors and developers
-------------------------------
- Release tags and source code tarballs are GPG-signed again (:issue:`11996`).
- Documentation in release tarballs is now built with the latest version of Sphinx,
which means that pre-built man pages include :ref:`OSC 8 hyperlinks <term-compat-osc-8>`.
- The Sphinx dependency is now specified in ``pyproject.toml``,
which allows you to use `uv <https://github.com/astral-sh/uv>`__ to provide Sphinx for building documentation (e.g. ``uv run cargo install --path .``).
- The minimum supported Rust version (MSRV) has been updated to 1.85.
- The standalone build mode has been made the default.
This means that the files in ``$CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/share/fish`` will not be used anymore, except for HTML docs.
As a result, future upgrades will no longer break running shells
if one of fish's internal helper functions has been changed in the updated version.
For now, the data files are still installed redundantly,
to prevent upgrades from breaking already-running shells (:issue:`11921`).
To reverse this change (which should not be necessary),
patch out the ``embed-data`` feature from ``cmake/Rust.cmake``.
This option will be removed in future.
- OpenBSD 7.8 revealed an issue with fish's approach for displaying builtin man pages, which has been fixed.
Regression fixes:
-----------------
- (from 4.1.0) Fix the :doc:`web-based config <cmds/fish_config>` for Python 3.9 and older (:issue:`12039`).
- (from 4.1.0) Correct wrong terminal modes set by ``fish -c 'read; cat`` (:issue:`12024`).
- (from 4.1.0) On VTE-based terminals, stop redrawing the prompt on resize again, to avoid glitches.
- (from 4.1.0) On MSYS2, fix saving/loading of universal variables (:issue:`11948`).
- (from 4.1.0) Fix error using ``man`` for the commands ``!````.````:````[````{`` (:issue:`11955`).
- (from 4.1.0) Fix build issues on illumos systems (:issue:`11982`).
- (from 4.0.0) Fix build on SPARC and MIPS Linux by disabling ``SIGSTKFLT``.
- (from 4.0.0) Fix crash when passing negative PIDs to builtin :doc:`wait <cmds/wait>` (:issue:`11929`).
- (from 4.0.0) On Linux, fix :doc:`status fish-path <cmds/status>` output when fish has been reinstalled since it was started.
fish 4.1.2 (released October 7, 2025)
=====================================
@@ -872,7 +935,7 @@ Notable improvements and fixes
which expands ``!!`` to the last history item, anywhere on the command line, mimicking other shells' history expansion.
See :ref:`the documentation <cmd-abbr>` for more.
See :doc:`the documentation <cmds/abbr>` for more.
-``path`` gained a new ``mtime`` subcommand to print the modification time stamp for files. For example, this can be used to handle cache file ages (:issue:`9057`)::
> touch foo
@@ -1297,7 +1360,7 @@ Scripting improvements
two
'blue '
-``$fish_user_paths`` is now automatically deduplicated to fix a common user error of appending to it in config.fish when it is universal (:issue:`8117`). :ref:`fish_add_path <cmd-fish_add_path>` remains the recommended way to add to $PATH.
-``$fish_user_paths`` is now automatically deduplicated to fix a common user error of appending to it in config.fish when it is universal (:issue:`8117`). :doc:`fish_add_path <cmds/fish_add_path>` remains the recommended way to add to $PATH.
-``return`` can now be used outside functions. In scripts, it does the same thing as ``exit``. In interactive mode,it sets ``$status`` without exiting (:issue:`8148`).
- An oversight prevented all syntax checks from running on commands given to ``fish -c`` (:issue:`8171`). This includes checks such as ``exec`` not being allowed in a pipeline, and ``$$`` not being a valid variable. Generally, another error was generated anyway.
-``fish_indent`` now correctly reformats tokens that end with a backslash followed by a newline (:issue:`8197`).
Use ``cargo fmt`` and ``cargo clippy``. Clippy warnings can be turned off if there's a good reason to.
We support at least the version of ``rustc`` available in Debian Stable.
Testing
=======
@@ -196,78 +181,47 @@ You are strongly encouraged to add tests when changing the functionality
of fish, especially if you are fixing a bug to help ensure there are no
regressions in the future (i.e., we don’t reintroduce the bug).
The tests can be found in three places:
Unit tests live next to the implementation in Rust source files, in inline submodules (``mod tests {}``).
- src/tests for unit tests.
- tests/checks for script tests, run by `littlecheck <https://github.com/ridiculousfish/littlecheck>`__
- tests/pexpects for interactive tests using `pexpect <https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`__
System tests live in ``tests/``:
When in doubt, the bulk of the tests should be added as a littlecheck test in tests/checks, as they are the easiest to modify and run, and much faster and more dependable than pexpect tests. The syntax is fairly self-explanatory. It's a fish script with the expected output in ``# CHECK:`` or ``# CHECKERR:`` (for stderr) comments.
If your littlecheck test has a specific dependency, use ``# REQUIRE: ...`` with a posix sh script.
-``tests/checks`` are run by `littlecheck <https://github.com/ridiculousfish/littlecheck>`__
and test noninteractive (script) behavior,
except for ``tests/checks/tmux-*`` which test interactive scenarios.
-``tests/pexpects`` tests interactive scenarios using `pexpect <https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`__
The pexpects are written in python and can simulate input and output to/from a terminal, so they are needed for anything that needs actual interactivity. The runner is in tests/pexpect_helper.py, in case you need to modify something there.
When in doubt, the bulk of the tests should be added as a littlecheck test in tests/checks, as they are the easiest to modify and run, and much faster and more dependable than pexpect tests.
The syntax is fairly self-explanatory.
It's a fish script with the expected output in ``# CHECK:`` or ``# CHECKERR:`` (for stderr) comments.
If your littlecheck test has a specific dependency, use ``# REQUIRE: ...`` with a POSIX sh script.
These tests can be run via the tests/test_driver.py python script, which will set up the environment.
The pexpect tests are written in Python and can simulate input and output to/from a terminal, so they are needed for anything that needs actual interactivity.
The runner is in tests/pexpect_helper.py, in case you need to modify something there.
These tests can be run via the tests/test_driver.py Python script, which will set up the environment.
It sets up a temporary $HOME and also uses it as the current directory, so you do not need to create a temporary directory in them.
If you need a command to do something weird to test something, maybe add it to the ``fish_test_helper`` binary (in tests/fish_test_helper.c), or see if it can already do it.
If you need a command to do something weird to test something, maybe add it to the ``fish_test_helper`` binary (in ``tests/fish_test_helper.c``).
Local testing
-------------
The tests can be run on your local computer on all operating systems.
The tests can be run on your local system::
::
cmake path/to/fish-shell
make fish_run_tests
Or you can run them on a fish, without involving cmake::
cargo build
cargo test # for the unit tests
tests/test_driver.py target/debug # for the script and interactive tests
``uname`` and ``sed`` at least, but the full coreutils plus ``find`` and
``awk`` is preferred)
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ The following optional features also have specific requirements:
messages require ``man`` for display
- automated completion generation from manual pages requires Python 3.5+
- the ``fish_config`` web configuration tool requires Python 3.5+ and a web browser
- the :ref:`alt-o <shared-binds-alt-o>` binding requires the ``file`` program.
- system clipboard integration (with the default Ctrl-V and Ctrl-X
bindings) require either the ``xsel``, ``xclip``,
``wl-copy``/``wl-paste`` or ``pbcopy``/``pbpaste`` utilities
@@ -111,14 +112,12 @@ The following optional features also have specific requirements:
Building
--------
.._dependencies-1:
Dependencies
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Compiling fish requires:
- Rust (version 1.70 or later)
- Rust (version 1.85 or later)
- CMake (version 3.15 or later)
- a C compiler (for system feature detection and the test helper binary)
- PCRE2 (headers and libraries) - optional, this will be downloaded if missing
@@ -140,7 +139,7 @@ links above, and up-to-date `development builds of fish are available for many p
To install into ``/usr/local``, run:
..code::bash
..code::shell
mkdir build;cd build
cmake ..
@@ -165,34 +164,41 @@ In addition to the normal CMake build options (like ``CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX``), f
- WITH_GETTEXT=ON|OFF - whether to include translations.
- extra_functionsdir, extra_completionsdir and extra_confdir - to compile in an additional directory to be searched for functions, completions and configuration snippets
Building fish with embedded data (experimental)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Building fish with Cargo
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You can also build fish with the data files embedded.
You can also build fish with Cargo.
This example uses `uv <https://github.com/astral-sh/uv>`__ to install Sphinx (which is used for man-pages and ``--help`` options).
You can also install Sphinx another way and drop the ``uv run --no-managed-python`` prefix.
This will include all the datafiles like the included functions or web configuration tool in the main ``fish`` binary.
..code::shell
Fish will then read these right from its own binary, and print them out when needed. Some files, like the webconfig tool and the manpage completion generator, will be extracted to a temporary directory on-demand. You can list the files with ``status list-files`` and print one with ``status get-file path/to/file`` (e.g. ``status get-file functions/fish_prompt.fish`` to get the default prompt).
cargo install --path /path/to/fish # if you have a git clone
cargo install --git https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell --tag "$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/fish-shell/fish-shell/releases/latest | jq -r .tag_name)" # to build the latest release
cargo install --git https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell # to build the latest development snapshot
uv run --no-managed-python \
cargo install --path .
This will place the standalone binaries in ``~/.cargo/bin/``, but you can place them wherever you want.
This build won't have the HTML docs (``help`` will open the online version).
It will try to build the man pages with sphinx-build. If that is not available and you would like to include man pages, you need to install it and retrigger the build script, e.g. by setting FISH_BUILD_DOCS=1::
FISH_BUILD_DOCS=1 cargo install --path .
Setting it to "0" disables the inclusion of man pages.
This will place standalone binaries in ``~/.cargo/bin/``, but you can move them wherever you want.
To disable translations, disable the ``localize-messages`` feature by passing ``--no-default-features --features=embed-data`` to cargo.
You can also link this build statically (but not against glibc) and move it to other computers.
Here are the remaining advantages of a full installation, as currently done by CMake:
- Man pages like ``fish(1)`` installed in standard locations, easily accessible from outside fish.
- A local copy of the HTML documentation, typically accessed via the ``help`` fish function.
In Cargo builds, ``help`` will redirect to `<https://fishshell.com/docs/current/>`__
- Ability to use our CMake options extra_functionsdir, extra_completionsdir and extra_confdir,
(also recorded in ``$PREFIX/share/pkgconfig/fish.pc``)
which are used by some package managers to house third-party completions.
Regardless of build system, fish uses ``$XDG_DATA_DIRS/{vendor_completion.d,vendor_conf.d,vendor_functions.d}``.
echo"*Download links: To download the source code for fish, we suggest the file named \"fish-$version.tar.xz\". The file downloaded from \"Source code (tar.gz)\" will not build correctly.*"
echo'Download links:'
echo'To download the source code for fish, we suggest the file named ``fish-'"$version"'.tar.xz``.'
echo'The file downloaded from ``Source code (tar.gz)`` will not build correctly.'
echo'A GPG signature using the key published at '"${FISH_GPG_PUBLIC_KEY_URL:-???}"' is available as ``fish-'"$version"'.tar.xz.asc``.'
echo
echo"*The files called fish-$version-linux-\*.tar.xz are experimental packages containing a single standalone ``fish`` binary for any Linux with the given CPU architecture.*"
echo'The files called ``fish-'"$version"'-linux-*.tar.xz`` contain'
echo'`standalone fish binaries <https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/?tab=readme-ov-file#building-fish-with-cargo>`__'
echo'for any Linux with the given CPU architecture.'
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