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

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457 points benoitg | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 11:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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maztaim ◴[24 Jun 25 12:27 UTC] No.44365427[source]▶
I found https://ohmyposh.dev/ works for me. There’s something about transient prompts that (at the time?) was a problem for starship. There are several other alternatives I’ve tried with meh results.
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Cthulhu_ ◴[24 Jun 25 12:31 UTC] No.44365460[source]▶
I've used Powerlevel10k for ages (https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k), but it seems it's no longer actively developed / maintained. I think it's a lot cleaner, how I have it set up right now it shows some information like timestamp, Ruby versions, command runtime etc on the right side, whereas Starship shows it right at the prompt.
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maztaim ◴[24 Jun 25 12:58 UTC] No.44365711[source]▶
Same here, that's what prompted my search. I felt I could get closest with oh-my-posh.
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iaresee ◴[24 Jun 25 13:46 UTC] No.44366220{3}[source]▶
That was the same thing that drove me to find an alternative and I also landed on ohmyposh specifically because starship lacked the transient prompt.
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fwip ◴[24 Jun 25 14:23 UTC] No.44366604{4}[source]▶
I'm not 100% sure what a transient prompt is, but it looks like Starship now might have support for them.

[right prompt docs] https://starship.rs/advanced-config/#enable-right-prompt [transient prompt docs] https://starship.rs/advanced-config/#transientprompt-and-tra...

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1. iaresee ◴[25 Jun 25 14:44 UTC] No.44377929{5}[source]▶
https://starship.rs/advanced-config/#transientprompt-in-powe...

Starship only supports this in PowerShell for whatever reason.

Edit: Doh. I see what you linked to now. Yea, maybe it does work in more than just PowerShell now?

Transient prompt basically removes your prompt decorations and replaces it with just `>` in your scroll back history in your shell sessions. In my case it's a slightly more complex transient prompt (datetime and exit code of the command), but still greatly simplified.

Makes cut-and-paste of history in to docs and stuff super nice.