Fish Shell With Starship on WIndows Git Bash

install-fish-windows-git-bash.md

Fish Shell With Starship on Windows Git Bash

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Old/Manual Mode

1. To install fish shell on Windows Git Bash, install Git and MSYS executing the following commands in powershell:

winget install --id Git.Git --accept-package-agreements
winget install --id MSYS2.MSYS2 --accept-package-agreements

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2. Add C:\msys64\usr\bin to the system's path environment variables, or copy the following line into ~/.bash_profile (create it if it doesn't exist)

export PATH="/c/msys64/usr/bin:$PATH"

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3. Download the latest tar.zst files for fish (Direct Link) and pcre2_16 (Direct Link) (Note: The packages are compressed using zstd)

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4. Extract the contents to your git bash installation directory (Usually C:\Program Files\Git)

- First, extract fish
- Then, extract pcre2_16 **(do not overwrite existing content during extraction)**

Extraction Options:

• using Peazip.
• using Winrar
• using 7zip

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5. Test and configure fish:

Open git bash and type:

fish

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6. Configure fish as default shell

Add the following lines at the end of the ~/.bashrc file (create it if it doesn't exist)

# Launch Fish
if [ -t 1 ]; then
exec fish
fi

Reopen Git Bash.

Path to fish configuration: ~\.config\fish\config.fish

Note: If you receive the following error error: Unable to open shared memory with path simply configure Git Bash to run as administrator.

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If you want Starship

Repository	Instructions
crates.io	cargo install starship --locked
Chocolatey	choco install starship
conda-forge	conda install -c conda-forge starship
Scoop	scoop install starship
winget	winget install --id Starship.Starship

~\.config\fish\conf.d\fnm.fish

fnm env --use-on-cd | source

~\.config\fish\config.fish

starship init fish | source
pyenv init - fish | source

set SPACEFISH_PROMPT_ADD_NEWLINE false
set -U fish_greeting
set PATH $HOME/.jenv/bin $PATH

# Deno
export DENO_DEPLOY_TOKEN=""
export DENO_INSTALL="$HOME/.deno"
export OPEN_API_KEY=""

# Aliases
alias cat="bat --theme=\$(defaults read -globalDomain AppleInterfaceStyle &> /dev/null && echo default || echo GitHub)"
alias l="ls -la"
alias ls="eza --color=always --long --git --no-filesize --icons=always --no-time --no-user --no-permissions"
alias cd="z"
alias py="python"
alias y="yazi"

fzf --fish | source
zoxide init fish | source

export FZF_CTRL_T_OPTS="
   --style full
   --walker-skip .git,node_modules,target
   --preview 'bat -n --color=always {}'
   --bind 'ctrl-/:change-preview-window(down|hidden|)'
"

# Bun
set --export BUN_INSTALL ="$HOME/.bun"

function y
	set tmp (mktemp -t "yazi-cwd.XXXXXX")
	yazi $argv --cwd-file="$tmp"
	if set cwd (command cat -- "$tmp"); and [ -n "$cwd" ]; and [ "$cwd" != "$PWD" ]
		builtin cd -- "$cwd"
	end
	rm -f -- "$tmp"
end

status --is-interactive; and jenv init - | source

# ---------------- inshellisense shell plugin ----------------
if test -z "$ISTERM" && status --is-interactive
  if status --is-login
    is -s fish --login ; kill %self
  else
    is -s fish ; kill %self
  end 
end