Well, thank you very much for the detailed explanation.
Then we are glad to be with a more feature-rich shell, especially living
with CLI everyday.
As for bash-compatibility, that would make fish even greater!
thanks,
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 6:17 AM, ridiculous_fish <
corydo...@ridiculousfish.com> wrote:
> fish is deliberately incompatible with POSIX in several ways. For example,
> splitting of variables, via IFS:
>
> foo='John Doe'
> echo $foo
>
> POSIX requires us to throw away all the whitespace, and output 'John Doe'.
> Dumb, huh? So making fish POSIX compliant would compromise usability.
>
> Other shells like bash have a POSIX compatibility mode, even allowing them
> to be used as a replacement for /bin/sh. However supporting this requires
> introducing a great deal more complexity - see for example
> http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-POSIX-Mode.htmlfor a
> partial list, which would be significantly longer for fish, because
> it's much further away from /bin/sh than is bash.
>
> More interesting than POSIX compliance would be a bash compatibility mode,
> which would allow fish to take advantage of tools like rbenv without
> requiring them to be rewritten for fish. Such a mode would not have to
> fully emulate bash, just enough to support such tools.
>
> _fish
>
> On Jan 13, 2013, at 7:55 AM, Hormatzhan Yiltiz <hyil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I do not think POSIX compatibility is a matter that concerns most fish
> users, but it would be just much better if it could be someday.
> Is *fish* gonna be one someday in the *near or distant* future?
>
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