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Starship.rs: minimal, fast prompt for any shell

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Re: Starship.rs: minimal, fast prompt for any shell

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Post by emi2k01 »

imp0cat wrote: post #14
retrochameleon wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe read through the documentation and try it out. It has very robust configuration options, many pre-built modules that are ready to include in your prompt, for example, one that prints git info for the current location if it's a repository. So yes, it is kind of a competitor to p10k, but not zsh. It's just the prompt, and it just focuses on being a very good prompt tool.

Yeah, it's just a prompt replacement that does all the things that your prompt already does, but it's written in Rust.

"it's just..." is kinda demeaning.

People want something easy to use with good defaults. If that wasn't the case, shells wouldn't have a hundreds of plugins dedicated to customizing the prompt.

Re: Starship.rs: minimal, fast prompt for any shell

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Post by konart »

myaccountonhn wrote: post #4

I’m probably on the wrong side of history, but I just don’t like how much color there is in modern cli tools. It is distracting

Well, in most casees you can configure it and back in all black and white\green if you want to.

Having 8 (or more) colors help when dealing with information though, at least when you need to get a quick result and not just dig into the man pages.

Re: Starship.rs: minimal, fast prompt for any shell

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Post by juxtapose »

I've been using Starship for quite some time, and it's awesome! Definitely recommend it to anyone who wants a fast, modern, and rich prompt.

Besides the product, the community is pleasantly awesome as well. I've contributed a module to it and the maintainer has done a good job reviewing and testing. Heck, they even have a Discord server for contributors.

Re: Starship.rs: minimal, fast prompt for any shell

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Post by mkl »

myaccountonhn wrote: post #4

I’m probably on the wrong side of history, but I just don’t like how much color there is in modern cli tools. It is distracting

You may want to set NO_COLOR: https://no-color.org/. A couple of big discussions about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30483417, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36098488

Re: Starship.rs: minimal, fast prompt for any shell

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Post by Hamuko »

myaccountonhn wrote: post #4

I’m probably on the wrong side of history, but I just don’t like how much color there is in modern cli tools. It is distracting

I like some colour but some tools take it way too far. As for emoji, the appropriate amount of them in a CLI tool is zero.
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