bass VS PSReadLine

> I do wish fish could seamlessly convert and run bash scripts on the fly..

It can. With a little help. I use this:

https://github.com/edc/bass

I've been using it for years and most things I need nowadays just work (i.e. have Fish support out of the box).

For all the rest, perhaps give https://github.com/edc/bass a try.

If you're running a script, you can use edc/bass to run it from a fish shell. Fisher is one of the first things I install after fish, then bass, z and a few other helper plugins.

https://github.com/edc/bass

https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher

Use bass to drop down to bash from fish :)

https://github.com/edc/bass

As for POSIX, I'll just type bash and do what I need to do, or call a script. You also might want to use the plugin bass, because some programs do not pick up on variables that are set in fish. I think there are other similar plugins, but in my experience bass is the best one. https://github.com/edc/bass

This is an older utility, but still a good one - Bass attempts to make the transition from Bash/Zsh to Fish a little simpler: https://github.com/edc/bass

omf install https://github.com/fabioantunes/fish-nvm omf install https://github.com/edc/bass

I think https://github.com/edc/bass might help?

There are a few ways to work with it, either it simply has "var=val" statements that you could turn into a while read loop that sets variables, or you would need something like bass.

There is no need to change `$SHELL` :-/ you can use Bass (https://github.com/edc/bass) to execute any bash script and it will apply the environment variables to the current fish environment.

sets up PSReadLine: command autocompletion and many other features.

Sounds like a bug, you should report it to PSReadLine. I believe PSReadLine and not PowerShell is the one that handles tab completion here, it sounds like it's caching the alias target so still thinks it is completing Get-ChildItem.

I then used PSReadLine's GitHub to understand how they made their own module, shared data with Cmdlets and everything inbetween. Which got me the rest of the day.

Highly recommend checking out the team’s sample file: https://github.com/PowerShell/PSReadLine/blob/master/PSReadLine/SamplePSReadLineProfile.ps1

I have a hotkey that converts aliases on the command line when I hit alt+% That makes it easier to paste into discord or wherever. Why % ? I'm not sure, that's what what PSReadLine used

GitHub - PowerShell/PSReadLine: A bash inspired readline implementation for PowerShell

Bit late, but it's PSReadLine

Just a bit of a heads up. The PSReadLine 2.2.0 beta 1 and beta 2 do not work with this release so either you can downgrade to PSReadLine 2.1.0 or stay on PowerShell 7.2.0 preview 5. The PSReadLine 2.2.0 beta 3 will solve the issue.

The PSReadline update-help failing is new and should probably have an issue filed on their github, assuming there isn't one already. The failure on "WindowsUpdateProvider" has been around for years, you're missing help for these cmdlets without it