Happy user of spaceship prompt for zsh: https://spaceship-prompt.sh, and, among other things, it runs repo status asynchronously.
Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
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Re: Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
#22I 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…
For personal workstation, the current directory is enough. Maybe I change the color based the status of the last command. That’s pretty much the only information I need before entering any command. Everything else can be accessed when I really need it.
I like stuffing everything which might be important to the context window in there, personally. Saving 50ms on the prompt load sure beats a false negative when something goes wrong because I don't even think to ask whether I have the wrong Node version installed or something.
Re: Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
#23I really like this one for just being a single install and then no more fiddling. I don’t have time for any of that shit, but I do want to know whether my current shell is on node 20 or 22, rust stable or nightly. Getting all of that without extra effort is great.
Re: Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
#24Tried it. Not a fan. I find it unnecessarily fancy.
Then customize it not to be. Are you criticizing it for having too many configuration options?
Re: Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
#25I'm a long time user of https://github.com/ohmybash/oh-my-bash
It would be nice to have a comparison and reasons to change from popular tools.
Re: Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
#26I found https://ohmyposh.dev/ works for me. There’s something about transient prompts that (at the time?) was a problem for starship. There are several other alternatives I’ve tried with meh results.
I've used Powerlevel10k for ages ( https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k ), but it seems it's no longer actively developed / maintained. I think it's a lot cleaner, how I have it set up right now it shows some information like timestamp, Ruby versions, command runtime etc on the right side, whereas Starship shows it right at the prompt.
Same here, that's what prompted my search. I felt I could get closest with oh-my-posh.
Re: Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
#27I 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…
For personal workstation, the current directory is enough. Maybe I change the color based the status of the last command. That’s pretty much the only information I need before entering any command. Everything else can be accessed when I really need it.
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.
Re: Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
For personal workstation, the current directory is enough. Maybe I change the color based the status of the last command. That’s pretty much the only information I need before entering any command. Everything else can be accessed when I really need it.
I like stuffing everything which might be important to the context window in there, personally. Saving 50ms on the prompt load sure beats a false negative when something goes wrong because I don't even think to ask whether I have the wrong Node version installed or something.
When starting to work on something, I generally do a sanity check to see that the fundamentals are there and correct versions, then throw that part of the context out of mind, knowing that I stand on firm ground.
I found out that with this verify-and-forget step, I work much more efficiently.
As a result, my workflow becomes independent of the machine I work on, because I become the tool, not my setup. After that point, only having a "$" at the beginning of the line is enough.
Of course everyone have their own choices, and YMMV.
Re: Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
#29I love Starship. Having built a decent enough powerline prompt for zsh in the past, and really hating PS1, I've found Starship to be incredibly useful for building the exact prompt I want, with full colour, and never ever wigging out at anything. One simple toml file on every machine I ever ssh into and everything I need to know about the session is there at a glance.
Re: Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell
#30I'm a long time user of https://github.com/ohmybash/oh-my-bash It would be nice to have a comparison and reasons to change from popular tools.
Came here to ask the same. Long time ohmyzsh user, and wondering what new features / benefits Starship has.