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Fish Shell 4.2 Released with Improved Autosuggestions
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Fish, a popular user-friendly command-line shell, has announced version 4.2, a new release that builds on the 4.0 series. Among the most visible improvements is an upgrade to history-based autosuggestions, which now properly handle multi-line commands.
The new version also improves how prompts are managed: transient prompts that contain more lines than the final one are now cleared properly, preventing visual clutter on screen. Similarly, the shell now hides parts of a multi-line prompt that have scrolled out of view, eliminating duplicated lines after repainting.
Localization has received attention, too, with new Taiwanese Chinese translations and updated French translations.
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Fish 4.2 Released with Multi-line Command Suggest + More - OMG! Ubuntu
Fish 4.2.0 (go on; go leave the obvious comment) nets a couple of minor-ish new features — it’s already a capable shell — with the big one being that fish will now auto-suggest multi-line commands from your command history as you type.
Those of you who routinely run commands making use of line breaks or continuation characters to chain actions (or just prettify input so it’s easily readable) this is likely to be a major quality-of-life gain.