dotfiles VS starship

https://github.com/thanatos/dotfiles/blob/master/shell/zsh/p...

I've tried to highlight roughly the relevant bits.

The basics of it is that we lazy-load an associative array between exit statuses that are signals and their prettified names. (Which we more or less build by querying Python, to get at what's, essentially, defined in signal.h.)

Once we have that assoc. array, when we get a non-zero exit, we see if it's in the array. If it is, look up the pretty name, print message. If not, just print message with raw exit status. Red & bold so it shows up. (Should probably also use bright red, too. But my work laptop is macOS, & so it's iTerm2, and iTerm2 interprets "bold" to mean "bright & bold".)

I also use zsh, which is able to be considerably more expressive in what it can accomplish in a PS1 than bash can. Note that the syntax,

  ${+VAR}

Agreed, I use this in conjunction with Starship [1], both initialized specifically for Fish in the config. I love this shell so much.

[1] - https://starship.rs/

starship is the new spaceship, yo

https://starship.rs/

It seems like the Rust community is quite happy to support alternative shells. I’ve seen couple of projects, now, that support way more esoteric shells than I would expect, like ’xonsh’. Starship (https://starship.rs/) immediately comes to mind.

Until now I have been using bash on Windows with Starship as the prompt. The only reason I went with Starship, is that it was easy to setup and at the time I did not have much free time to devout to the shell/prompt configuration.

I'm staying on BitstromWera Nerd Font. Works great with Starship.

https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads

https://starship.rs

I use conditional includes for this, but I also add a single letter describing which Git identity I'm currently using to my PS1 so that it appears before $ in my shell prompt. This prevents me from committing code with the wrong identity, in case I'm using a git checkout that's anywhere not covered by the conditional include rules.

I use Starship (https://starship.rs) to manage my prompt, and wrote a short script that only runs if I'm somewhere in a git repo, and if so finds my Git user's email and looks up the corresponding letter in an associative array declared in my ~/.config/starship-zsh/.zshenv:

    git_email=$(git config --get user.email | perl -pe 'chomp if eof')