fish 3.6.1-2 is now available in Cygwin as a TEST release. This release moves fish's universal variable files from its previous, Cygwin-specific location (~/.config/fish/fish_variables.x86_64) to fish' standard location (~/.config/fish/fish_variables). I've tested the migration on my hosts, and it works for me, but I'd like to hear from other users whether it works for them too, before I make the feature generally available. # Testing Please test this release! It's pretty easy: 1. Back up your universal variables file (~/.config/fish/fish_variables.x86_64) if you want to be sure, just in case it should be lost. 2. Before you update, start fish and set a universal variable that you can test after the migration, for example set -U migrated 3. Install the test release of fish. 4. Start fish. If the migration was successful: * You should see a migration message like this from fish, just one time: Migrated /home/andrew/.config/fish/fish_variables.x86_64 -> /home/andrew/.config/fish/fish_variables * The variable you set above should still be set. So for example set -q migrated; and echo success; or echo failed should echo "success". * Output of `ls ~/.config/fish` should include fish_variables, and not fish_variables.x86_64. Please report here whether the above worked for you, and any error messages you might see. # Why we're doing this In the past when Cygwin supported two architectures (i686 and x86_64), fish kept separate universal variables files for the two architectures. Now that only one architecture is supported, there's no need to do that anymore, and there's some advantage to moving the file back to where vanilla fish expects to find it. # About fish fish is the friendly interactive shell. It's a Unix shell that focuses on interactive use, discoverability, and user friendliness. The design goal of fish is to give the user a rich set of powerful features in a way that is easy to discover, remember, and use. Home page: https://fishshell.com Andrew E. Schulman