fish-shell/fish-shell 2.7.0

fish 2.7.0 (released November 23, 2017)

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There are no major changes between 2.7b1 and 2.7.0. If you are upgrading from version 2.6.0 or before, please also review the release notes for 2.7b1 (included below).

Xcode builds and macOS packages could not be produced with 2.7b1, but this is fixed in 2.7.0.

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The release notes for fish 2.7b1 are as follows:

Notable improvements

• A new cdh (change directory using recent history) command provides a more friendly alternative to prevd/nextd and pushd/popd (#2847).
• A new argparse command is available to allow fish script to parse arguments with the same behavior as builtin commands. This also includes the fish_opt helper command. (#4190).
• Invalid array indexes are now silently ignored (#826, #4127).
• Improvements to the debugging facility, including a prompt specific to the debugger (fish_breakpoint_prompt) and a status is-breakpoint subcommand (#1310).
• string supports new lower and upper subcommands, for altering the case of strings (#4080). The case changing is not locale-aware yet.
• string escape has a new --style=xxx flag where xxx can be script, var, or url (#4150), and can be reversed with string unescape (#3543).
• History can now be split into sessions with the fish_history variable, or not saved to disk at all (#102).
• Read history is now controlled by the fish_history variable rather than the --mode-name flag (#1504).
• command now supports an --all flag to report all directories with the command. which is no longer a runtime dependency (#2778).
• fish can run commands before starting an interactive session using the new --init-command/-C options (#4164).
• set has a new --show option to show lots of information about variables (#4265).

Other significant changes

• The COLUMNS and LINES environment variables are now correctly set the first time fish_prompt is run (#4141).
• complete's --no-files option works as intended (#112).
• echo -h now correctly echoes -h in line with other shells (#4120).
• The export compatibility function now returns zero on success, rather than always returning 1 (#4435).
• Stop converting empty elements in MANPATH to "." (#4158). The behavior being changed was introduced in fish 2.6.0.
• count -h and count --help now return 1 rather than produce command help output (#4189).
• An attempt to read which stops because too much data is available still defines the variables given as parameters (#4180).
• A regression in fish 2.4.0 which prevented pushd +1 from working has been fixed (#4091).
• A regression in fish 2.6.0 where multiple read commands in non-interactive scripts were broken has been fixed (#4206).
• A regression in fish 2.6.0 involving universal variables with side-effects at startup such as set -U fish_escape_delay_ms 10 has been fixed (#4196).
• Added completions for:
  • as (#4130)
  • cdh (#2847)
  • dhcpd (#4115)
  • ezjail-admin (#4324)
  • Fabric's fab (#4153)
  • grub-file (#4119)
  • grub-install (#4119)
  • jest (#4142)
  • kdeconnect-cli
  • magneto (#4043, #4108)
  • mdadm (#4198)
  • passwd (#4209)
  • pip and pipenv (#4448)
  • s3cmd (#4332)
  • sbt (#4347)
  • snap (#4215)
  • Sublime Text 3's subl (#4277)
• Lots of improvements to completions.
• Updated Chinese and French translations.

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