I just found out about fish shell a few moments ago. I switched Konsole on KDE to use it instead of bash and am impressed so far. Might install it on the Pihole eventually. Good stuff, just wanted to share. :)

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    2 days ago

    One thing that bothers me about Nushell (even if it doesn’t really matter) is honestly just how bloated the table style is, with three columns in each column margin and six columns of enforced line numbers. Why can’t it display tables in the same style as regular UNIX commands?

    Another thing that bothered me is that the “blessed” way to parse tables from external commands seems very fragile to me. Iirc the builtin parsing commands work solely off table headers, which are locale dependent for many commands, so a script might appear to work fine but suddenly break if an LC_* environment variable sneaks in somewhere. The size filter trick works nicely for ls, but doing the same thing becomes painful again when using df.

    I also found the script syntax (implicit line continuations, command seperation, etc.) difficult to understand but presumably that’s just a matter of familiarity.

    I’ll have to give it another try in the future but for now Fish is good enough for me.