fish 3.6.1 (released March 25, 2022)
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This release of fish contains a number of fixes for problems identified in fish 3.6.1, as well as some enhancements.
Notable improvements and fixes
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- ``abbr --erase`` now also erases the universal variables used by the old abbr function. That means::
abbr --erase (abbr --list)
can now be used to clean out all old abbreviations (:issue:`9468`).
- ``abbr --add --universal`` now warns about ``--universal`` being non-functional, to make it easier to detect old-style ``abbr`` calls (:issue:`9475`).
Deprecations and removed features
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- The Web-based configuration for abbreviations has been removed, as it was not functional with the changes abbreviations introduced in 3.6.0 (:issue:`9460`).
Scripting improvements
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- ``abbr --list`` no longer escapes the abbr name, which is necessary to be able to pass it to ``abbr --erase`` (:issue:`9470`).
- ``read`` will now print an error if told to set a read-only variable, instead of silently doing nothing (:issue:`9346`).
- ``set_color -v`` no longer crashes fish (:issue:`9640`).
Interactive improvements
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- Using ``fish_vi_key_bindings`` in combination with fish's ``--no-config`` mode works without locking up the shell (:issue:`9443`).
- The history pager now uses more screen space, usually half the screen (:issue:`9458`)
- Variables that were set while the locale was C (the default ASCII-only locale) will now properly be encoded if the locale is switched (:issue:`2613`, :issue:`9473`).
- Escape during history search restores the original command line again (fixing a regression in 3.6.0).
- Using ``--help`` on builtins now respects the ``$MANPAGER`` variable, in preference to ``$PAGER`` (:issue:`9488`).
- :kbd:`Control-G` closes the history pager, like other shells (:issue:`9484`).
- The documentation for the ``:``, ``[`` and ``.`` builtin commands can now be looked up with ``man`` (:issue:`9552`).
- fish no longer crashes when searching history for non-ASCII codepoints case-insensitively (:issue:`9628`).
- The :kbd:`Alt-S` binding will now also use ``please`` if available (:issue:`9635`).
- Themes that don't specify every color option can be installed correctly in the Web-based configuration (:issue:`9590`).
- Compatibility with Midnight Commander's prompt integration has been improved (:issue:`9540`).
- A spurious error, noted when using fish in Google Drive directories under WSL 2, has been silenced (:issue:`9550`).
- Using ``read`` in ``fish_greeting`` or similar functions will not trigger an infinite loop (:issue:`9564`).
- Compatibility when upgrading from old versions of fish (before 3.4.0) has been improved (:issue:`9569`).
Improved prompts
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- The git prompt will compute the stash count to be used independently of the informative status (:issue:`9572`).
Completions
^^^^^^^^^^^
- Added completions for:
- ``apkanalyzer`` (:issue:`9558`)
- ``neovim`` (:issue:`9543`)
- ``otool``
- ``pre-commit`` (:issue:`9521`)
- ``proxychains`` (:issue:`9486`)
- ``scrypt`` (:issue:`9583`)
- ``stow`` (:issue:`9571`)
- ``trash`` and helper utilities ``trash-empty``, ``trash-list``, ``trash-put``, ``trash-restore`` (:issue:`9560`)
- ``ssh-copy-id`` (:issue:`9675`)
- Improvements to many completions, including the speed of completing directories in WSL 2 (:issue:`9574`).
- Completions using ``__fish_complete_suffix`` are now offered in the correct order, fixing a regression in 3.6.0 (:issue:`8924`).
- ``git`` completions for ``git-foo``-style commands was restored, fixing a regression in 3.6.0 (:issue:`9457`).
- File completion now offers ``../`` and ``./`` again, fixing a regression in 3.6.0 (:issue:`9477`).
- The behaviour of completions using ``__fish_complete_path`` matches standard path completions (:issue:`9285`).
Other improvements
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- Improvements and corrections to the documentation.
For distributors
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- fish 3.6.1 builds correctly on Cygwin (:issue:`9502`).
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