How to define an alias in fish shell?

Question

I would like to define some aliases in fish. Apparently it should be possible to define them in

~/.config/fish/functions

but they don't get auto loaded when I restart the shell. Any ideas?

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p.s. if anyone is using or has used fish in the past I'd be interested to hear your comments as to whether it offers anything that bash does not.

Answer 1

Maybe you should use ~/.config/fish/config.fish (fish's equivalent of .bashrc).

Answer 2

This is how I define a new function foo, run it, and save it persistently.

sthorne@pearl~> function foo
                    echo 'foo was here'
                end
sthorne@pearl~> foo
foo was here
sthorne@pearl~> funcsave foo