exa VS starship

bat especially was a revelation. I don't think I'll ever use cat again if I can help it. I recently found exa[1] which was a bit too colorful for my taste but very nice too

[1] https://github.com/ogham/exa

exa

Over time, I have replaced more and more the standard tools with alternative ones. Instead of find, I use fd and fzf, for example. Instead of grep I use ripgrep. Or exa instead of ls. And I use Mercurial instead of Git.

Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls\ (98 comments)

https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/367#issuecomment-4285909...

ls taking seconds and exa taking 13 minutes :(

Their website says it's as fast as ls because they do things in parallel but it doesn't seem to actually be as fast as ls in small or large usage.

I'd also say 200ms -> 1.2 seconds is very noticable.

I don't have any direct way to help here; but the git_status.rs source from the Starship project may be of use.

Have a look at starship.rs.

If you want to play with fancy prompts with minimal hassle (and have them be the same regardless of shell (BASH, ZSH, Nu, whatever)), take a look at: https://starship.rs/

I recently added https://starship.rs/ to my zsh config but it works in bash or other shells as well and looks really cool. Before that I was only using the git plugins from oh-my-zsh which were pretty good too. In any case I can highly recommend OMZ.

Starship, on the other hand, helps customize the prompt of any shell that you may be using

Fancy Bash Prompts. Notes From my .bashrc #---------------------------------- # Homepage, then the command to activate # Starship -> https://starship.rs/ #eval "$(starship init bash)" # Silver https://github.com/reujab/silver #source

You might want to check Starship, it can enhance your shell customization and has those kind of features

I got the idea to use eval by looking at the starship project. What are your thoughts on how they do their initialization? Could it be made any faster/better? (FWIW, I myself use p10k simply because it looks much better; I haven't actually compared the two in terms of performance.)

For the prompt I really like starship. As far as having a space in an alias I don’t think that’s possible because it will interpret the first word as the command.