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fisher for Mac

Plugin manager for the Fish shell

Quick answer: fisher is a terminal emulator for macOS. Install it with brew install fisher. It is distributed under the MIT licence. It has 108 Homebrew installs in the last 30 days.

What fisher is

fisher is a terminal emulator for macOS: plugin manager for the Fish shell.

It is distributed as a Homebrew formula, which builds or pours a binary and puts it on your PATH. The project is open source and lives at https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fisher.

How to install fisher

  1. Open Terminal (press ⌘ + Space and type “Terminal”).
  2. If Homebrew is not installed yet, run the installer below once.
  3. Run brew install fisher.

Homebrew installer, if you need it:

Prefer a graphical installer? Download it from the official site. MacPicks never hosts or mirrors binaries — the Homebrew command always pulls from the vendor's own release.

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install fisher on Mac?

Run brew install fisher in Terminal. This requires Homebrew; if you do not have it, install it first with the command below.

Is fisher open source?

Yes — Homebrew distributes it under the MIT licence.

Does fisher run on Apple silicon?

Homebrew publishes this formula for macOS. If upstream does not ship an Apple silicon build, Rosetta 2 handles the Intel binary.

How popular is fisher?

It was installed 108 times in the last 30 days according to Homebrew analytics, ranking #3333 in this catalogue.

What version of fisher is current?

The latest packaged version is 4.4.8.