fish, the friendly interactive shell is a shell that is focused on
interactive use, discoverability, and user friendliness. The design
goal of fish is to give the user a rich set of powerful features in
a way that is easy to discover, remember, and use. fish features a
user-friendly and powerful tab-completion, including descriptions of
every completion, tab-completion of strings with wildcards, and many
completions for specific commands. It also features an extensive and
discoverable help system. A special help command gives access to all the
fish documentation in your preferred Web browser. Other features include
syntax highlighting with extensive error checking, support for the X
clipboard, smart terminal handling based on terminfo, an easy to search,
no duplicates history.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
Case insensitive tab completions were added.
Improvements were made to the multiline editing
system. A new and much more powerful keybinding
system was added.