alt Hacker NewsI 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.
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See when I don't have a prompt I forget to run those things and just autopilot through a lot of commands before I realize Im on the wrong branch.
For example if I have say 3 worktrees open in 3 seperate tmux tabs and are context switching between them (very common when reviewing multiple PRs from my devs) Sometimes i will get the tabs mixed up, which worktree is where etc and just autopilot a bunch of commands meant for one tree into a different one and its quite annoying to clean up.
The prompt has generally stopped me from doing that.
"The only tool that stood the test of time is tmux."
tmux comes from BSD rather thsn GNU/Linux, or Windows
What is the default shell in OpenBSD
starship does not support it
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/newSame here, I also find that aliases for speed introduce unnecessary complexity and mental overhead later on. It's not much, and for other people it doesn't matter or they have a different preference, but that's what I prefer.
Sort of contrary to that I really enjoy the maximalist shells. A computer should be fun to use!
Same here. I definitely went through a powerline, alias, huge vimrc, etc phase, but it turns out just sticking to the base toolset is pretty handy.
I can sit down at (or ssh into) any machine and be basically just as productive, and it also turns out that I just always want to know more than nicely fits into the prompt anyways.
There's something to be said for accepting the defaults of a tool, and learning to use them well. Customization is powerful, but... I think most times it's not the right call until you're already an expert in the tool at hand.