Fish shell

Fish is the superior shell with sensible defaults.

Installation

brew install fish

Find the path to the fish installation.

which fish

Add fish to known shells.

/opt/homebrew/bin/fish

Restart terminal. May need to restart laptop.

Set fish as default shell

chsh -s /opt/homebrew/bin/fish

Add brew to the $PATH in your config.fish file.

fish_add_path /opt/homebrew/bin

It is (by default) safe to use fish_add_path in config.fish.

Wrap brew with Homebrew-file in your config.fish file.

if test -f (brew --prefix)/etc/brew-wrap.fish
  source (brew --prefix)/etc/brew-wrap.fish
end

Set your theme:

fish_config

Starship

Starship is a cross-shell prompt that has a customizable config file.

Installation

Install the binary using devbox

devbox add starship

Add the init hook

starship init fish | source

Alternatives

Tide is a customizable prompt for fish.

Installation

fisher install IlanCosman/tide@v6

Configure the prompt.

tide configure

Install the recommended font.

zoxide

zoxide makes changing directories a breeze by remembering the directories that you frequently visit and letting you fuzzy jump to the directory you want. But honestly, I use the Git Repos Raycast extension far more than zoxide.

Installation

Install zoxide with devbox.

devbox add zoxide

Add zoxide init fish | source to the end of your config.fish.

zoxide init fish | source

Some people like to change the command to run zoxide to cd using the —cmd flag. You can do this by changing the zoxide init command in your config.fish file but I found it annoying that fish would highlight the arguments to cd with red syntax highlighting.

Alternatives

z is a native fish plugin that also lets you change directories with a snippet of the actual directory’s name.

Installation

fisher install jethrokuan/z

bat

bat is the better cat alternative.

Installation

devbox add bat

fd

fd is the better find alternative.

Installation

devbox add fd

eza

eza is the better ls alternative.

Installation

devbox add eza

Fisher

Fisher is a plugin manager for fish.

Installation

brew install fisher

fzf

fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder. I find this to be really useful for searching through my command history.

fzf.fish adds nice keybindings for fzf.

Installation

Install fzf

devbox add fzf

Install fzf.fish

fisher install PatrickF1/fzf.fish

Usage

Show command history: CTRL + R

colima

Installation

brew install colima qemu

Optionally run colima as a brew service so that it starts on login.

brew services start colima

Configure DOCKER_HOST:

set -Ux DOCKER_HOST "unix://$HOME/.colima/docker.sock"

Optionally, configure TESTCONTAINERS_DOCKER_SOCKET_OVERRIDE for testcontainers.

set -Ux TESTCONTAINERS_DOCKER_SOCKET_OVERRIDE /var/run/docker.sock

Usage

Start colima

colima start

If something is wrong, usually it’s good to just restart colima:

colima restart