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I was curious as to what prompts people find are the best for development? I'm looking for a change from the generic debian:

PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

Which yields:

dell-xps-13@pop-os:~$

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use zsh for my shell, with powerlevel10k as my prompt. It's gorgeous and has an interactice condigurator on first start. It includes stuff like git repo branch and status, python venv, aws profile... I've used it for years and loved it the whole time.

Here's what mine looks like

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

No doubt p10k is excellent, and the dev knows what he's doing and helps others a lot.

Another great zsh prompt with a simpler implementation is agkozak's: https://github.com/agkozak/agkozak-zsh-prompt

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally, I like starship, and how it's consistent across different shells. I mostly use defaults, but with line break before command.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wasn't aware of starship. It looks great and even supports Powershell! Do you have any font recommendations to go along with it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I use Fira Code, but any font patched with Nerd Fonts will do.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I wrote my own! But you probably don't want to use it, I am sure it only works for me. But hey! It was fun! https://github.com/e2dubba/liteprompt

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Fish with starship

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have randomized oh-my-zsh prompts when using zsh, and the default starship prompt when using bash

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have a random oh-my-zsh prompt everytime you use zsh? That sounds maddening haha, what's the appeal?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like many things, I have no idea why I'm doing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds fun! 😊

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No so much a prompt but I love Neofetch.

Looks nice with starship as well - https://itsfoss.com/starship/.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] darcy 6 points 1 year ago

op means shell prompt