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

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Post by wodenokoto »

joshstrange wrote: post #68

I spend so little time relatively on my own machine’s terminal and even when I do I don’t want it to be totally different from the boxes I SSH into every day. That context switch would be frustrating. Nor do I have the desire to push for something like this to be installed on our fleet of servers. Do the people who use this (along with terminal emulators that require you install things on the host to get the full pow…

I suppose I “just don’t use other machines” and when I do, they suck and mine rocks, which I consider a lot better than “both sucks, but I am used to it”

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

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Post by wodenokoto »

Narushia wrote: post #66
rgoulter wrote: post #3

Starship's an excellent prompt replacement. I think it goes well with the fish shell: it's much nicer than the default, without requiring customisation.

Switching to Starship was actually what inspired me to also switch from Bash to Fish. Purely because of the transient prompt feature, which is not supported for Bash. With the transient prompt, you can have things like Git or Kubernetes status on your “main prompt”, but without always printing them in the terminal for the commands you ran previously. It keeps the history much cleaner, and therefore more pleasant to s…

I’m not sure I understand. Do you have a screenshot shot of something with and without transient prompt that shows the difference?

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

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Post by joshstrange »

wodenokoto wrote: post #71
joshstrange wrote: post #68

I spend so little time relatively on my own machine’s terminal and even when I do I don’t want it to be totally different from the boxes I SSH into every day. That context switch would be frustrating. Nor do I have the desire to push for something like this to be installed on our fleet of servers. Do the people who use this (along with terminal emulators that require you install things on the host to get the full pow…

I suppose I “just don’t use other machines” and when I do, they suck and mine rocks, which I consider a lot better than “both sucks, but I am used to it”

Totally understandable. I my computer is highly configured for “me” which means I feel lost if I sit down at someone else’s computer. That said, I spend 90%+ of my time in a terminal SSH’d to other box. If it was closer to 50-50 I’d be more interested but improving Thank you!

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

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Post by kuschkufan »

tecoholic wrote: post #60
notnmeyer wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it’s trivial to configure fwiw. with as much info as it is capable of showing it’s a stretch to think it’ll magically know what you want.

My problem is not that it didn’t do what I want, just that it seems to work in a “opt in to everything by default” which was overwhelming. I prefer things that without config don’t do anything or do the bare minimum and then lets me slowly add to it.

Thank you for your opinion.

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

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Post by blooalien »

Narushia wrote: post #59

My interactive shell experience has substantially improved after installing Starship. :) The other thing was changing from Bash to Fish.

Same. The two work so well together. Been happy with both Fish and Starship for a long(ish) while now.

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

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Post by jackwilsdon »

wodenokoto wrote: post #73
Narushia wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Switching to Starship was actually what inspired me to also switch from Bash to Fish. Purely because of the transient prompt feature, which is not supported for Bash. With the transient prompt, you can have things like Git or Kubernetes status on your “main prompt”, but without always printing them in the terminal for the commands you ran previously. It keeps the history much cleaner, and therefore more pleasant to s…

I’m not sure I understand. Do you have a screenshot shot of something with and without transient prompt that shows the difference?

There's a good example in the Oh My Posh documentation: https://ohmyposh.dev/docs/configuration/transient

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

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Post by usrbinbash »

eviks wrote: post #62
weebull wrote: post #58

Am I the only one who is getting tired of "It's X in rust" type projects? It's making me dislike the community. Rust is not a user feature, it's an implementation detail.

The fact that this happens should be food for thought for part of the rust community. Because the way I see it, if they keep this up, a few years from now, they could, other than some obscure linux kernel modules almost noone uses and a good grep-alternative, be well along what I lovingly call the "Haskell Route".

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

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Post by usrbinbash »

> "minimal"

Here is what a minimal shell prompt looks like:

    $
Here is another one which only uses the shells own facilities:

    current-directory@hostname $
Running a complex piece of software every time the shell needs to display it's prompt, is not "minimal", regardless of how fast and well written said piece of software is.
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