23 Dec
2021
23 Dec
'21
6:04 p.m.
I've been a "fancy prompt" fan for decades. It started when I got
(possibly
the first) CRT (HP2641?) at Bell Labs with command re-entry capability. I
put a @ at the end of my prompt, so when I re-entered a line, the prompt
itself would disappear (@ was the default line-kill character in the
pre-internet era). As it got possible to make ksh prompts fancier, I put a
newline at the end of the prompt, and used command number, host name, and
working directory, color coded (although that may well not show up):
1896 jpl:/home/jpl/Downloads
Easy to visually distinguish prompts from commands, and copy/paste
commands. And I jiggered a local cd command to put
user@host ptty current-directory window-size
in the terminal window title. Handier before I retired, when I had many
hosts I might be visiting with ssh. Overkill, arguably, but CPU cycles are
cheap now.
On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 2:00 AM Andy Kosela <akosela(a)andykosela.com> wrote:
On 12/22/21, Adam Thornton <athornton(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
MacOS finally pushed me to zsh. So I went all
the way and installed
oh-my-zsh. It makes me feel very dirty, and I have a two-line prompt
(!!),
but I can't deny it's convenient.
tickets/DM-32983 ✗
adam@m1-wired:~/git/jenkins-dm-jobs$
(and in my terminal, the X glyph next to my git branch showing the status
is dirty is red while the branch name is green)
and if something doesn't exit with rc=0...
adam@m1-wired:~/git/jenkins-dm-jobs$ fart
zsh: command not found: fart
tickets/DM-32983 ✗127 ⚠️
adam@m1-wired:~/git/jenkins-dm-jobs$
Then I also get the little warning glyph and the rc of the last command
in
my prompt.
But then I'm also now using Fira Code with ligatures in my terminal, so
I've pretty much gone full Red Lightsaber.
I try to keep my prompt as simple as possible. For years I have been
using:
moon $
That 's it. No fancy colors, not even displaying current working
directory. I have an alias 'p' for that.
--Andy
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