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• The Greatest Minimal Shell Prompt Ever Existed
  • starship.toml

see also

• The Forever Timeless Terminal Setup

# Feature

• live update
• change windows title
• right prompt
• continuation prompt

# Transient Prompt

Transient prompt allows you to change your prompt after you execute your command. This can be useful if you’d prefer a simpler prompt in your scrollback and only keep the relevant info on your current prompt.

Only supported by

• fish
  • can be used to display actual status after execution
• bash
• powsershell

# Install 📥

$ nix profile install nixpkgs#starship

require a Nerd font?

• a least a font with emoji, but it seems that all distro have that now

# Configuration ⮺

cf Chez moi

$ mkdir -p ~/.config && touch ~/.config/starship.toml

# Enable ⮺

by shell

# .bashrc
$ eval "$(starship init bash)"

# fish
$ starship init fish | source

# promt by shell ⮺

Define the shell in an env.variable

Then use it in starship

format = '''${env_var.SHELL}(bold green) '''

[env_var.SHELL]
variable = "STARSHIP_SHELL_STYLE"
format = "[$env_value]($style) "
style = "bold green"

# Example ⮺

• Adam DeHaven

# Alternatives

• ohmyposh - support transient prompt for zsh