Consistent Prompt With Starship

Intro

The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
- starship

Reasons starship

It is written in rust, you can expect almost C-language like performance.
Starship provides consistent and identical prompt across shell, this was the biggest selling point for me.
Shows active git branch and repo status if navigated directory is git repository, huge time saver.
Smart enough to show major programming language version based on contents of directory and virtual environment name if it is active.
Last command status via color, green for success and red for failure

Installation

Fire up your favourite terminal emulator.

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yay -S starship-bin

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curl -fsSL https://starship.rs/install.sh | bash

Configuration

Next up, initialize startship. To do that, Update config file based on the shell in use.

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eval "$(starship init bash)"

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eval "$(starship init zsh)"

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starship init fish | source

starship offers lots of bell and whistles when it cames to configuration with ability to customize every aspect of the prompt.

Use this config as a starting point. Remove/update parts to fit your taste.

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[hostname]
format =  "on [$hostname](bold red) "

[git_status]
conflicted = "🏳"
ahead = "🏎💨"
behind = "😰"
diverged = "😵"
stashed = "📦"
modified = "📝"
staged = '[++\($count\)](green)'
renamed = "👅"
deleted = "🗑"


# if you are use gcloud
[gcloud]
symbol = "️🇬️ "
format = "on [$symbol$account(\\($project\\))]($style) "

Closing thoughts

After I made the switch to starship, I felt my search for creating perfect prompt is completed. It provides me consistecy, the other day I have installed powershell and first thing I did was set up starship. After a while, I was confused as to why regular linux commands are not working only to find out that I was in powershell 😄.