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Configuring it with home-manager was as simple as:
programs.starship.enable = true;
I like maximalist prompts, and indeed Starship is what Shell Bling Ubuntu [1] installs on a new dev machine. But they're not everyone's cup of tea. If I wanted to recommend to someone the min-maxed, highest density thing they could add to their prompt, it would simply be the time your current prompt appeared + the amount of time the last command you ran took. These two pieces of information together make it very easy…
I would be very curious to see an age demographic chart of people using e.g. Starship. Personally, over time, I have stopped caring too much about prompt customization. I concluded that, no matter how carefully you curate your prompt, 90% of the information shown will be irrelevant 90% of the time*. After a while, your brain will start perceiving this as visual clutter and filter it out, to the point you may even for…
I've tried prompts in the past, and they mostly annoyed me, or never showed me useful information. I've been a happy starship user for several years now. I've got the config tweaked so that it only shows me things I specifically care about. It's lightning fast.
I would be very curious to see an age demographic chart of people using e.g. Starship. Personally, over time, I have stopped caring too much about prompt customization. I concluded that, no matter how carefully you curate your prompt, 90% of the information shown will be irrelevant 90% of the time*. After a while, your brain will start perceiving this as visual clutter and filter it out, to the point you may even for…
As a counterpoint, one of the most useful customizations I've made to my prompt is to emit the exit status of the prior command. Knowing that something failed is a useful signal, esp. when sometimes the thing failing just fails to emit any output that indicates that it failed. I only emit it if the prior command fails, too, so it doesn't clutter things the 90% of the time things are working. » true » false (last comm…
My shell customization is largely throwing Starship in (so it looks the same on all the machines I use -- Ubuntu servers at work, macOS at home, nixOS/Fedora/etc. servers for personal use.) and a starship.toml I wrote once and now leave alone.
I would be very curious to see an age demographic chart of people using e.g. Starship. Personally, over time, I have stopped caring too much about prompt customization. I concluded that, no matter how carefully you curate your prompt, 90% of the information shown will be irrelevant 90% of the time*. After a while, your brain will start perceiving this as visual clutter and filter it out, to the point you may even for…
For most of my career I used a very simple PS1:
export PS1="\[\033[1;32m\][\t \u@\h \w]\\$\[\033[0m\] "
I've tried prompts in the past, and they mostly annoyed me, or never showed me useful information. I've been a happy starship user for several years now. I've got the config tweaked so that it only shows me things I specifically care about. It's lightning fast.
I don’t understand why they market this as “minimal”. It’s got loads of features, and every time I see somebody use it they have a huge prompt with loads of bells and whistles. My shell prompt is: : ▶ You don’t need an entire shell prompt customisation framework to be minimal.
format = """
$username\
$hostname\
$shlvl\
$directory\
$git_branch\
$git_commit\
$git_state\
$git_metrics\
$git_status\
$package\
$python\
$rust\
$env_var\
$custom\
$cmd_duration\
$jobs\
$time\
$status\
$shell\
$character"""I would be very curious to see an age demographic chart of people using e.g. Starship. Personally, over time, I have stopped caring too much about prompt customization. I concluded that, no matter how carefully you curate your prompt, 90% of the information shown will be irrelevant 90% of the time*. After a while, your brain will start perceiving this as visual clutter and filter it out, to the point you may even for…
As a counterpoint, one of the most useful customizations I've made to my prompt is to emit the exit status of the prior command. Knowing that something failed is a useful signal, esp. when sometimes the thing failing just fails to emit any output that indicates that it failed. I only emit it if the prior command fails, too, so it doesn't clutter things the 90% of the time things are working. » true » false (last comm…
I would be very curious to see an age demographic chart of people using e.g. Starship. Personally, over time, I have stopped caring too much about prompt customization. I concluded that, no matter how carefully you curate your prompt, 90% of the information shown will be irrelevant 90% of the time*. After a while, your brain will start perceiving this as visual clutter and filter it out, to the point you may even for…
I’m “very senior” (as in decades of _Unix_ use senior) and I like it in minimal mode because it’s just so much less hassle than all the other zsh stuff I had been using for a couple of decades. Not sure if you expected replies to be full of all the JavaScript kids that use emojis in logging messages, but apologies if so :)
And now that you mention it, next year will be my 30th Unix-versary. Time flies... Still not a greybeard though.
I know Starship isn't zsh specific but I guess its tangentially related, does anyone know what the default zsh config is on MacOS? I got quite used to it, and now I'm on linux I'd like to replicate it. The closest I've got is using the eastwood theme on oh-my-zsh but it's not quite the same (I dont even think MacOS using oh-my-zsh out the box, but its got all the nice git stuff)
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Yes. I show the python or node version of currently active venv and venv name. Also, I somehow worked in special characters for Python and other things that get screwed up if I don’t have the right nerd font installed on the system.
How often are you switching these things that you need their values in sight at all times though? Even for cases where I need to use old versions, I don’t need a reminder of that every time I run a command.
It isn't that useful but I do glance it when I'm working on dependencies and to ensure the context between a terminal session and pycharm's interpreter match.
The information doesn't cloud the prompt for me though, as it is right justified and I don't really think about time to load, as the machines are relatively recent Apple Silicon.