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Starship: A minimal, fast, and customizable prompt for any shell

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457 points benoitg | 2 comments | 24 Jun 25 11:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.432s | source
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jamesponddotco ◴[24 Jun 25 14:04 UTC] No.44366404[source]▶
I live in the terminal, so I wrote my own prompt ages ago when I started learning Go[1][2], and before that I had a simple prompt in bash.

I like to keep things very simple and fast, so the directory and the git branch is all I need. I wonder if people really use all that information or if they set it up thinking they need it, but then never do.

[1]: https://git.sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/gosh

[2]: I should probably update that now that I know a “bit” more Go.

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1. williamdclt ◴[24 Jun 25 14:07 UTC] No.44366432[source]▶
The only thing I add is the time (hh:mm:ss), it's often-ish useful to roughly know how long a command has been running for (or how long it took after it completed)
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2. jayknight ◴[24 Jun 25 15:16 UTC] No.44367151[source]▶
The `cmd_duration` starship module can additionally tell you how long the previous command took: https://starship.rs/config/#command-duration