I went to Black Duck to check out FISH as an open source project. It was
list as "most active", so I assume there a plenty of community minded folks
working away?
On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 4:24 PM, Kurtis Rader <kra...@skepticism.us> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 1:16 PM, John Chludzinski <
> john.chludzin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is this changing in 3.0?
>>
>
> Probably not. As I indicated in my previous reply I had hoped to resolve
> issue #436 in time for the 3.0 release but didn't complete the work before
> I stopped contributing to fish. And it doesn't look like any of the other
> devs feel it is important enough to include.
>
>
> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 4:06 PM, Kurtis Rader <kra...@skepticism.us>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> It is working correctly. You're naturally confused because fish
>>>>> special cases PATH, MANPATH, and CDPATH. It automatically splits on colons
>>>>> when importing those vars from the environment and joins the elements with
>>>>> colons when exporting to an external command. It does not do that for any
>>>>> other environment var. Not even those that have "PATH" in the name. This
>>>>> is
>>>>> (sort of) documented:
>>>>>
>>>>> fish automatically creates arrays from the variables PATH, CDPATH and
>>>>>> MANPATH when it is started. (Previous versions created arrays from
>>>>>> *all* colon-delimited environment variables.)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/436 for a
>>>>> proposal on how to improve this via "tied variables". I was working the
>>>>> code for that feature which would have made it into the fish 3.0 release.
>>>>> Sadly I stopped working on fish when I decided I could no longer work with
>>>>> one of the other devs so I didn't complete that work. And it doesn't look
>>>>> like any of the remaining devs consider it important enough to include in
>>>>> the 3.0 release.
>>>>>
>>>>
>
> --
> Kurtis Rader
> Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank
>
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