My Fish Shell Configuration

My personal Fish shell setup with intelligent two-line prompt and productivity enhancements.

Topics: fish-shell dotfiles terminal prompt productivity shell-config unix linux zsh-alternative command-line git-integration customization rice minimalist developer-tools

Features

• Two-line prompt design prevents long paths from pushing cursor off-screen
• Git integration with branch names and status indicators
• Command execution timing for commands over 2 seconds
• Virtual environment detection and display
• Exit status indicators for failed commands
• Unicode styling with clean box-drawing characters
• Custom syntax highlighting and color scheme
• Smart autocompletion with case-insensitive matching
• Enhanced keybindings for productivity
• Smart cd function that lists directory contents
• Archive extraction for multiple formats
• Process search and file finder utilities

Installation

Quick Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Hadi493/fish-config/main/install.sh | bash

Manual Install

git clone https://github.com/Hadi493/fish-config.git
cd fish-config
./install.sh

Dependencies

Required

• Fish shell 3.0+
• Git
• Nerd Font (recommended: Iosevka)

Optional

• tree - Enhanced directory listing
• bat - Better cat with syntax highlighting
• curl - Weather function

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

Copyright (c) 2025 Hadi493

Requarements

• Any Linux distro (I personally use CachyOS)
• Fish shell
• Fastfetch

Usage

Backup and remove old-config

mkdir -p ~/fish.bak
cp ~/.config/fish/* -r ~/fish.bak
rm -rf ~/.config/fish

Clone

git clone https://github.com/Hadi493/cg-fish.git ~/.config/fish/

source

source ~/.config/fish/config.fish

Aliases

ll, la, cls, git_graph, g_graph, gb_graph.
sys-upgrade, full-sys-upgrade

⚠️ Important: Customize Your Aliases

Please make sure to review the config.fish file and update the aliases according to your Linux distribution. Note: Default aliases are pre-configured for Arch-based systems.

Customize aliases

nvim

nvim ~/.config/fish/config.fish

Custom Aliases

For Debian

alias sys-upgrade="sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y"
alias apt="sudo apt"

For Fedora

alias sys-upgrade="sudo dnf upgrade -y"
alias dnf="sudo dnf"