[vietor]

That's being explicit, the problem is with wrapper scripts that omit that, assuming a sh compatible shell.

Still running fish on one of my systems, excited to see new development work as it was getting past the point where I was comfortable using it on anything new.

[nikkaelle]

An old trick for convincing (some) shells that your script is an sh-compatibile shell is to use a colon on the first line. Support for this trick was added to fish back in 2007: https://gitorious.org/~ridiculousfish/fish-shell/fishfish/bl...

[akkartik]

Thanks for the pointer. I can't say how much I wish more people would include pointers to code fragments or specific commits on a site called hacker news.

Tangential question: is gitorious's syntax highlighting usually this awful? The first thing I need from syntax highlighting is distinguishing comments from code.

[cheatercheater]

I'm not sure how to use it. Can you give an example of where it works, and what changes if this is not done?