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Persist aliases and other configuration in Fish Shell

Note to self: whenever making aliases in Fish (or any other config!), add them to the ~/.config/fish/config.fish file.

So they will be persisted after a system reboot.

For example I set ls to be an alias of exa and cat to be an alias of bat:


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