jorgebucaran/fisher
Fisher
Fisher is a plugin manager and shell extension manager specifically for the Fish shell. It provides a system for installing, updating, and removing plugins, themes, functions, and completion scripts.
The tool uses a flat-file state persistence method to track installed extensions in a plain text file, which enables the synchronization of shell environments across different systems using version control.
It covers the full lifecycle of shell extensions, including the discovery of installed plugins, the installation of packages from remote repositories, and the development of distributable shell components and visual themes.
Features
- Shell Plugin Systems - Provides a full framework for installing, updating, and removing community plugins for the Fish shell.
- Flat-File Storage - Uses plain text files to track the state of installed plugins, allowing for easy version control synchronization.
- Git Repository Distributions - Distributes and installs shell extensions by cloning remote Git repositories into the local environment.
- Plugin Management Systems - Implements a system to upgrade plugins to their latest versions and synchronize them with a state file.
- Remote Configuration Synchronization - Synchronizes the list of installed plugins across multiple systems using a remote source of truth.
- Shell Configuration Management - Manages shell settings, completions, and functions through a centralized extension system.
- Shell Environments - Allows mirroring of development environments across different machines by tracking extensions in a version-controlled file.
- Plugin Managers - Provides administrative capabilities to remove specific plugins or reset the entire shell environment.
- Plugin Installation Utilities - Automates the downloading and setup of plugins from remote repositories or local paths.
- Dynamic Script Loading - Injects plugin scripts directly into the active shell session by sourcing files from the installation directory.
- Shell Built-ins - Implements management logic using native shell primitives to eliminate the need for external binary dependencies.
- Plugin Development Kits - Supports the creation and packaging of functions and completions into a distributable plugin format.
- Theme Managers - Provides a mechanism to install and apply visual themes and prompt styles as plugins.
- Theme Packaging - Enables bundling of visual styles and configurations into compatible theme plugins.
- Directory-Based Plugin Discovery - Implements a system where each plugin is isolated in its own directory for discovery and easy removal.
- Plugin Managers - A package manager for functions, completions, and snippets.
- Shell Environments - Package manager for the Fish shell.
- Shell Frameworks - Package manager for the Fish shell.
- Shells and Scripting - Plugin manager for the Fish shell.
