I've been a "fancy prompt" fan for decades. It started when I got (possibly the first) CRT (HP2641?) at Bell Labs with command re-entry capability. I put a @ at the end of my prompt, so when I re-entered a line, the prompt itself would disappear (@ was the default line-kill character in the pre-internet era). As it got possible to make ksh prompts fancier, I put a newline at the end of the prompt, and used command number, host name, and working directory, color coded (although that may well not show up): 1896 jpl:/home/jpl/Downloads Easy to visually distinguish prompts from commands, and copy/paste commands. And I jiggered a local cd command to put user@host ptty current-directory window-size in the terminal window title. Handier before I retired, when I had many hosts I might be visiting with ssh. Overkill, arguably, but CPU cycles are cheap now. On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 2:00 AM Andy Kosela wrote: > On 12/22/21, Adam Thornton wrote: > > MacOS finally pushed me to zsh. So I went all the way and installed > > oh-my-zsh. It makes me feel very dirty, and I have a two-line prompt > (!!), > > but I can't deny it's convenient. > > > > tickets/DM-32983 ✗ > > adam@m1-wired:~/git/jenkins-dm-jobs$ > > > > (and in my terminal, the X glyph next to my git branch showing the status > > is dirty is red while the branch name is green) > > > > and if something doesn't exit with rc=0... > > > > adam@m1-wired:~/git/jenkins-dm-jobs$ fart > > zsh: command not found: fart > > tickets/DM-32983 ✗127 ⚠️ > > adam@m1-wired:~/git/jenkins-dm-jobs$ > > > > Then I also get the little warning glyph and the rc of the last command > in > > my prompt. > > > > But then I'm also now using Fira Code with ligatures in my terminal, so > > I've pretty much gone full Red Lightsaber. > > I try to keep my prompt as simple as possible. For years I have been > using: > > moon $ > > That 's it. No fancy colors, not even displaying current working > directory. I have an alias 'p' for that. > > --Andy > _______________________________________________ > COFF mailing list > COFF@minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/coff >