Vim
The official Vim repository (by vim)
fish-shell
The user-friendly command line shell. (by fish-shell)
| Vim | fish-shell | |
|---|---|---|
| 435 | 352 | |
| 38,495 | 30,263 | |
| 0.8% | 0.9% | |
| 9.9 | 9.9 | |
| 4 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| Vim Script | Rust | |
| Vim License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Vim
Posts with mentions or reviews of Vim.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-15.
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VIM is gem!!
Official site of VIM VIM git repo Here you can download Or refer some YouTube videos
- GNU Readline: Uma experiência Shell mais agradável no seu terminal
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Development Environment Configuration
Editors: Helix, NeoVim, Vim, Visual Studio Code
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How to Get Started with Bash Scripting for Automation
Use a text editor: nano, vim, or graphical editors like VSCode with Bash extensions.
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What I've Learned About My Editing Skills
A friend showed me a cool editor named vim and some tricks he did with text on it.
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How to start using Vim
Vim and Neovim
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Visual Studio vs. Visual Studio Code: An In-depth Comparison
Whereas Visual Studio Code is a text editor whose functionality and performance is aided by extensions. Some of the other notable text editors like Visual Studio Code include Atom, Sublime Text, Vim and Notepad++.
- Robert Elder's Guide to GNU Coreutils
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Kivy – a cross platform Python UI framework
Kivy led to one of my first open source contributions in 2014. I submitted Kivy file support to Vim. It was done via patch diffs over email with Bram Moolenaar. It's still in Vim today[1].
RIP Bram.
[1]: https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/runtime/syntax/kivy.v...
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User and groups creation automation in linux
Editor (Vim, Vi, Nano, VSCode). I will be using Vim as the editor of choice; here is a link to learn more about Vim.
fish-shell
Posts with mentions or reviews of fish-shell.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-06-21.
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Tracking dot files
Because I use fishell, I declare it into a new file under .config/fish/conf.d/env-vars.fish
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Debugging a problem with my fish shell.
Recently I made the switch on all my devies to use the great fish shell. It was amazing since it remembered all the commands I executed previously, was fast as bash and had inline completion.
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Brush (Bo(u)rn(e) RUsty SHell) a POSIX and Bash-Compatible Shell in Rust
I didn't realize fish was written in Rust, and it was my primary shell for a few years. Looks like they couldn't resist the rewrite it in Rust meme :-D
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/tree/c2eaef7273c555...
vs the C++
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/tree/d9d3557fcfbce1...
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A short tutorial on using fish shell.
Follow this to install. Note that this tutorial assume that you are on Linux.
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Fish 4.0.0
The most interesting thing about Fish 4.0.0 for most people will be that it is now written in Rust, which they talk about here [1]. Looking forward to testing it out and seeing if there are any noticeable differences.
[1] https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull/9512
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Tools for 2025
I've probably been using fish shell [0] for close to 10 years now. When I need POSIX compliance or if I need to run a one-off bash command, I just call bash. It's exceedingly rare.
Browsing through the documentation for Oils, it seems to be organized in a way that's very confusing. When you open the fish shell website it was two clear buttons for Tutorial and Documentation.
[0] https://fishshell.com/
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TIL: Ghostty — a new and quite promising terminal emulator
I remember that Julia Evans, whose blog I follow, mentioned a few time that she uses Fish. Also, some days ago I came across this post about Fish rewrite to Rust from C++, which sounds like a cool thing to do. However, I tried it some time ago, and while pretty neat, I wasn't convinced to switch to it completely.
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Easy development environments with Nix and Nix flakes!
The default shell in the above flake adds Valkey, NodeJS 22, the PNPM package manager, and the fish shell to the environment. It also starts Valkey in the background through a shell hook, passing it a custom config (declared via Nix!) and runs fish so we're dropped in the fish shell instead of our login shell.
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A new shell for using modern Unix commands
I’m testing a new shell called fish, and I’m enjoying some features that truly make it a friendly interactive shell.
- Discussion on writeable psub in Fish is revived
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Vim and fish-shell you can also consider the following projects:
Geany - A fast and lightweight IDE
nushell - A new type of shell
KDevelop - Cross-platform IDE for C, C++, Python, QML/JavaScript and PHP
powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme
GNU Emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs
tokyonight.nvim - 🏙 A clean, dark Neovim theme written in Lua, with support for lsp, treesitter and lots of plugins. Includes additional themes for Kitty, Alacritty, iTerm and Fish.