Fisher: Configure the directory of fisherman

[chamini2]

I would really appreciate an option to set the directory fisherman should store the plugins it downloads, using the fish_function_path to autoload the plugins.

That way we could keep functions for custom functions and maybe a fisherman_functions file dedicated for fisherman installed plugins.

[jorgebucaran]

@chamini2

You can achieve this (or close enough) using the fish_path variable.

See https://github.com/fisherman/fisherman#where-does-fisherman-put-stuff

The configuration and cache are saved to ~/.config/fisherman and ~/.cache/fisherman respectively.

The fishfile and plugins are saved to ~/.config/fish by default.

To customize this location:

set -U fish_path ~/my/path

[chamini2]

shouldn't it be fisher_path? fish_path seems it could mess with other fish stuff.

[nagromc]

@chamini2 Yes, it is quite confusing, but you have to understand $fish_path as seen by fisherman. The fisher.fish script uses $fish_path to target the default fish directory to make it work out-of-the-box. But as pointed out earlier, you can change $fish_path to another path to prevent fisherman from polluting your fish directory (~/.config/fish by default).

For instance, I set $fish_path to ~/.config/fish/fisherman so that my ~/.config/fish/functions remains clean when I run fisher install <package>, as my ~/.config/fish/functions is under VCS control (dotfiles).

[jorgebucaran]

@chamini2 Sorry for the confusion, but given that it targets the fish directory and not the fisherman directory, that's the best name we were able to come up with. Anyway, it won't mess with any other fish stuff.

I also have little to add to @nagromc's excellent answer.

Cheers.