[HN Gopher] Starship: Cross-shell prompt written in Rust
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Starship: Cross-shell prompt written in Rust
Author : cercatrova
Score : 13 points
Date : 2021-12-06 18:18 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| Barrin92 wrote:
| fish + starship has been my setup for a while now and it's super
| pleasant because it pretty much does all I want out of the box
| nix23 wrote:
| tcsh+starship is a pretty nice combination.
| junkblocker wrote:
| Since I was trying out nushell, I came across Starthip which
| supports nushell! I noticed that prompt managers which run non-
| shell binaries may be unable to support things like showing the
| tty since I assume they are execing any external tools
| (/usr/bin/tty) in a non-tty environment. But still very cool to
| have the same prompt run unmodified in zsh, bash, nushell etc.
| The git VCS performance in it is pretty good too even in large
| monorepos.
| Twirrim wrote:
| I love starship. Compiled binary, so it's extremely fast. I've
| tried a number of alternative prompt approaches in the past, but
| they've almost all been script based approaches, and the delay as
| the prompt message was generated was always palpable to me.
| Starship has been the only one I've stuck with, primarily because
| of just how fast it is.
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