[the_qbit]

Author here :) - I did all of the counts using the source tree (from tarball or cvs) of the respective shells.

Using just the `src` tree doesn't cut it imo, especially for fish, it installs lots of python scripts (fish_configure which sets up a python webserver, fish_update_completions which calls create_manpage_completions.py.. etc). Those count, and they are not included inthe src tree.

[eridius]

`cloc` on the `share` folder (which contains all of the python webserver scripts) only adds another 10k. Also I'm not sure those should count when talking about shell complexity, because nearly all of that is strictly a helper tool that most people don't actually even run (fish_config), so isn't particularly meaningful for your day-to-day running of the shell.

Or to put it another way, running `cloc` on the full checkout is extremely misleading. You're counting PCRE and other stuff that aren't particularly relevant to talking about shell complexity. Find the specific folders you do care about (which I still maintain is just the src/ folder) and run `cloc` on those specific folders, not on the full checkout.