Hi Everyone As I was saying I am new to fish but really excited about it. I spent a few hours reading yesterday and I have some thoughts/questions.
First of all looking through the source, this is a lot of work. Is the code base built on another project? It appears that there is about 13K lines of fish sources code alone and even more in C. If I wrote something like this from scratch(and there is no way I could!) I would definitely put a lot of work into marketing it and insuring that it is adopted as widely as possible, it seems to me that many coders are not always good at the latter. I am not a professional coder, I seem to have more difficulty with so much C code and not so much on the promotional end. This is the statement describing fish in Ubuntu: """ Fish is a shell geared towards interactive use. Its features are focused on user friendliness and discoverability. The language syntax is simple but incompatible with other shell languages. """ I happened on this a few years ago and passed the project over. It sort of came across as "it's fun to use but forget everything you know about bash" I foolishly assumed things like cat, echo ls and so on were missing. While I may be an idiot, I am not alone and people may give up on the project after 3 seconds of contemplation, a better description might really help. Another thing that seems strange, the syntax looks amazing but it is billed as mostly for interactive use, why is that? Would it not offer more to those who write shell scripts? is this not were the sensible syntax would be of most benefit? The website is nice but the does seem to be a lack of resources. is there a text editor that supports this syntax and if not why not? If not should I try to add this or is this a mute point? Some sample code would be good, I could try to hack some together? It looks like there has been some adoption from the Arch Linux people but not much elsewhere, are there troubles as default shell? If so is this hard to circumvent? Thanks for reading, I only code at night but I may have some other perspectives/resources that might contribute something, I hope so, it's seems like a wonderful project-Patrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
