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rgoulter on Oct 26, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fish: A command line shell for the 90s

AFAIR the problems using fish tend to be when other programs (e.g. vim or whatever) try and interact with the shell and it's non-POSIX compliant.

The "expect it to work, didn't" is more on the user's side, going from e.g. bash to fish.

pmarin on Oct 26, 2019 [–]

I know it was just an example but on any Vi clone you can set the default shell:

   :set shell=/bin/bash

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