This is due to an outdated wc-width function in fish for determining how much space each character gets. This supposedly will be fixed in fish 3. If you want emojis to work properly in fish 2.x.x:. Build source from GitHub AND instead of cmake. Do cmake -DINCLUDEDWCWIDTH=OFF.

This will use your system's wc-width function, which should be better when using MacOS. Add set -g fishemojiwidth 2 to /.config/config.fish. This will make emojis by default have a width of 2, which should fix spacing issues. This issue is explained in-detail.

June 6th, 2012 No. But this is the closest yet! The new fish is a POSIX command line shell with delightful, intuitive features like, 256 color, and lots more.

Best of all, these features just work, out of the box. No arcane syntax, no twiddling obscure knobs. It runs inside your favorite terminal emulator, such as Terminal.app, xterm, or iTerm. You'll feel right at home with its familiar syntax, and its new features will make you instantly more productive, without getting in your way. Of course, the new fish also has the advanced features you expect from a shell, like customizable prompts, user-defined functions, scripting, programmable completions (that just work, out of the box), etc.

There's also a great community and tons of documentation. It's perfect for anyone who uses the command line, but doesn't want to spend all their time learning its idiosyncrasies. You'll be so glad you did.

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Seriously, those autosuggestions have ruined me for all other shells. The new fish is in open beta, but is plenty stable enough for everyday use: I use it exclusively on all of my systems. There's an OS X installer and a Debian/Ubuntu installer, and a source tarball for other Unix-like OSes. The also has contact information for your questions and love letters / hate mail. I owe a debt of gratitude to Siteshwar Vashisht for his great contributions, and of course the original developer Axel for authoring fish in the first pace. Now, go fish!