Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

Post by eddd-ddde » Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 10:41 PM UTC

inejge wrote: post #158

m000 wrote: post #109

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…

> Personally, over time, I have stopped caring too much about prompt customization. For a while, I tried a couple of Christmas tree prompts which included all kinds of condensed Git status and other bells and whistles, but eventually tired of them and settled on: - Exit status of the previous command, if nonzero. - Current time, HH:MM, 24 hour format. - user@host, red if euid 0, green otherwise. - Current directory,…

Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 » Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 10:51 PM UTC

alganet wrote: post #58

acedTrex wrote: post #27

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You don't need to know what branch you're on before running commands? I cant tell you the number of times ive been on the wrong branch executing stuff.

I literally use just PS1='$ '. `git status` to know git stuff. `pwd` for the current working directory, etc I also don't use aliases like `gs` or `..` One good thing about having a very minimal setup is that you feel at home anywhere. It wasn't always like this. I used many, many prompts and shell tools over the decades. The only tool that stood the test of time is tmux.

   starship init ksh

   ksh is not yet supported by starship.
   For the time being, we support the following shells:
   * bash
   * elvish
   * fish
   * ion
   * powershell
   * tcsh
   * zsh
   * nu
   * xonsh
   * cmd

   Please open an issue in the starship repo if you would like to see support for ksh:
   https://github.com/starship/starship/issues/new

Post by dmd » Tue, Jun 24, 2025, 11:50 PM UTC

rcarmo wrote: post #135

m000 wrote: post #109

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 :)

Post by shmerl » Wed, Jun 25, 2025, 1:47 AM UTC

Post by magarnicle » Wed, Jun 25, 2025, 2:09 AM UTC

mechanicum wrote: post #93

BowBun wrote: post #32

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Problem is you can't get timestamps and run times of your commands 'when you really need it', unlike almost everything else

As an alternative, perennial HN recommendation atuin ( https://atuin.sh ) logs time, duration and exit code (among other data) for every command. That way you only have to look at it when you need it, and you can also figure out what you were doing last week/month/year if necessary.