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A comprehensive prompt is an extremely useful and an underappreciated productivity booster. But please, when making screencast or screenshots, use a simple pro

by omeid2 9y ago

A comprehensive prompt is an extremely useful and an underappreciated productivity booster. But please, when making screencast or screenshots, use a simple prompt. Because the information included in the prompt is often not only irrelevant, it can be actively distracting and makes reading through less pleasant by increasing the required eye-movement and cognitive effort to filter out the useless content. Small little things makes a difference.

jakear 9y ago
The prompt is so long that you can’t actually see the command being typed on mobile, asciienema just clips the stream.
- JasonFruit 9y ago
  You mean `asciinema`. That, my friend, is one unfortunate typo.
  - jakear 9y ago
    Ahh. That makes more sense. I took it as a bit of (very) crude humor.
chrismorgan 9y ago
I wrote a script bash-for-recording for myself a few years back, for invocation by termrec, which set the window size to 80×24, set HOME to a new empty directory, set USER and NAME to dummy values (creating an actual new throwaway user account would be better here, but I was lazy), set TERM to xterm-256color (I think it was), cleared the environment (env -i) and possibly one or two other things, set a deliberately very simple and obvious prompt (which sets the title as well), cleared the screen, then finally started a nice clean bash profile. I should pull out my old laptop or my backups and resuscitate the script. The example at http://tty-player.chrismorgan.info/ http://tty-player.chrismorgan.info/ was generated using that script.
- NetOpWibby 9y ago
  This is neat! Thanks for sharing.
- chrismorgan 9y ago
  I remembered a couple of details incorrectly, but this was my bash-for-recording script: #!/bin/bash # Start a new bash shell with a severely filtered environment and no initfile. if [ -z "$_BFR_RUNNING" ]; then env -i \ _BFR_RUNNING=1 \ PATH="$PATH" \ LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" \ TERM="$TERM" \ SHELL="$SHELL" \ USER="$USER" \ HOME="$HOME/bfr-home" \ LANG="$LANG" \ bash --init-file "$0" "$@" <&0 exit $? else unset _BFR_RUNNING fi # What remains of this file is the initfile. USER=user HOSTNAME=hostname PS1='\n\[\033[32;45;1m\]\w\[\033[m\]\$ ' eval "$(dircolors -b)" alias ls='ls --color=auto'

by omeid2 9y ago

jakear 9y ago

The prompt is so long that you can’t actually see the command being typed on mobile, asciienema just clips the stream.

JasonFruit 9y ago
You mean `asciinema`. That, my friend, is one unfortunate typo.
- jakear 9y ago
  Ahh. That makes more sense. I took it as a bit of (very) crude humor.

chrismorgan 9y ago

I wrote a script bash-for-recording for myself a few years back, for invocation by termrec, which set the window size to 80×24, set HOME to a new empty directory, set USER and NAME to dummy values (creating an actual new throwaway user account would be better here, but I was lazy), set TERM to xterm-256color (I think it was), cleared the environment (env -i) and possibly one or two other things, set a deliberately very simple and obvious prompt (which sets the title as well), cleared the screen, then finally started a nice clean bash profile. I should pull out my old laptop or my backups and resuscitate the script. The example at http://tty-player.chrismorgan.info/ http://tty-player.chrismorgan.info/ was generated using that script.

NetOpWibby 9y ago
This is neat! Thanks for sharing.
chrismorgan 9y ago
I remembered a couple of details incorrectly, but this was my bash-for-recording script: #!/bin/bash # Start a new bash shell with a severely filtered environment and no initfile. if [ -z "$_BFR_RUNNING" ]; then env -i \ _BFR_RUNNING=1 \ PATH="$PATH" \ LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" \ TERM="$TERM" \ SHELL="$SHELL" \ USER="$USER" \ HOME="$HOME/bfr-home" \ LANG="$LANG" \ bash --init-file "$0" "$@" <&0 exit $? else unset _BFR_RUNNING fi # What remains of this file is the initfile. USER=user HOSTNAME=hostname PS1='\n\[\033[32;45;1m\]\w\[\033[m\]\$ ' eval "$(dircolors -b)" alias ls='ls --color=auto'