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0 pointsalganet11mo ago0 comments

I literally use just PS1='$ '.

`git status` to know git stuff. `pwd` for the current working directory, etc

I also don't use aliases like `gs` or `..`

One good thing about having a very minimal setup is that you feel at home anywhere.

It wasn't always like this. I used many, many prompts and shell tools over the decades. The only tool that stood the test of time is tmux.

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horsawlarway11mo ago

Same here. I definitely went through a powerline, alias, huge vimrc, etc phase, but it turns out just sticking to the base toolset is pretty handy.

I can sit down at (or ssh into) any machine and be basically just as productive, and it also turns out that I just always want to know more than nicely fits into the prompt anyways.

There's something to be said for accepting the defaults of a tool, and learning to use them well. Customization is powerful, but... I think most times it's not the right call until you're already an expert in the tool at hand.

acedTrex11mo ago

See when I don't have a prompt I forget to run those things and just autopilot through a lot of commands before I realize Im on the wrong branch.

For example if I have say 3 worktrees open in 3 seperate tmux tabs and are context switching between them (very common when reviewing multiple PRs from my devs) Sometimes i will get the tabs mixed up, which worktree is where etc and just autopilot a bunch of commands meant for one tree into a different one and its quite annoying to clean up.

The prompt has generally stopped me from doing that.

alganetOP11mo ago

On tmux, I use split panels more often than tabs.

Usually, there will be from 2 to 8 panels of different sizes.

This gives me spacial short term memory: I know what each shell is by the panel position.

I can zoom on then to bring them full screen (ctrl+b z) if I'm going to do anything that requires more space, then zoom out to the panel arrangement when I'm done.

Sometimes I'll name prompts (eg `PS1='stg$ '`), specially when working with ssh, but that's rare.

What inspired me to work this way was this video on the acme editor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP1xVpMPn8M

1vuio0pswjnm711mo ago

"The only tool that stood the test of time is tmux."

tmux comes from BSD rather thsn GNU/Linux, or Windows

What is the default shell in OpenBSD

starship does not support it

   starship init ksh

   ksh is not yet supported by starship.
   For the time being, we support the following shells:
   * bash
   * elvish
   * fish
   * ion
   * powershell
   * tcsh
   * zsh
   * nu
   * xonsh
   * cmd

   Please open an issue in the starship repo if you would like to see support for ksh:
   https://github.com/starship/starship/issues/new

ericmay11mo ago

Same here, I also find that aliases for speed introduce unnecessary complexity and mental overhead later on. It's not much, and for other people it doesn't matter or they have a different preference, but that's what I prefer.

Sort of contrary to that I really enjoy the maximalist shells. A computer should be fun to use!

gumbojuice11mo ago

I don't use aliases, but abbreviations that expand to the actual full command. Helpful to type less and history has the exact.

Bagged234711mo ago

I like this. What do you use to accomplish this?

phatskat11mo ago

I don’t know exactly what they’re referencing, but Zsh has something like that where you can expand eg filenames and paths from this unique bits.

So if you have

``` src/components/Button.vue src/components/ButtonGroup.vue ```

And you type `nvim s/c/G<Tab>` it’ll expand to the second file’s path.

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