Design — fish-shell 4.2.1 documentation

Design¶ This is a description of the design principles that have been used to design fish. The fish design has three high level goals. These are: Everything that can be done in other shell languages should be possible to do in fish, though fish may rely on external commands in doing so. Fish should be user-friendly, but not at the expense of expressiveness. Most tradeoffs between power and ease of