Installation and Setup¶
Installing¶
Make sure you’re running Fish 2.x. If you’re running an Ubuntu LTS release that has an older Fish version, install Fish 2.x via the fish-shell/release-2 PPA.
Install virtualfish by running
pip install virtualfish
.Add the following to your
~/.config/fish/config.fish
:eval (python -m virtualfish)
If you want to use virtualfish with plugins, list the names of the plugins as arguments to the virtualfish loader:
eval (python -m virtualfish compat_aliases)
Note: If your
config.fish
modifies your$PATH
, you should ensure that you load virtualfish after those modifications.Customize your
fish_prompt
Customizing Your fish_prompt
¶
virtualfish doesn’t attempt to mess with your prompt. Since Fish’s prompt is a function, it is both much less straightforward to change it automatically, and much more convenient to simply customize it manually to your liking.
The easiest way to add virtualenv to your prompt is to type
funced fish_prompt
, add the following line in somewhere:
if set -q VIRTUAL_ENV
echo -n -s (set_color -b blue white) "(" (basename "$VIRTUAL_ENV") ")" (set_color normal) " "
end
Then, type funcsave fish_prompt
to save your new prompt to disk.