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Like most customization and command replacements (like the fancy greps, ls's, etc), I've stopped using fancy prompts because I log in to lots of systems over th
by okasaki 1y ago
Like most customization and command replacements (like the fancy greps, ls's, etc), I've stopped using fancy prompts because I log in to lots of systems over the day and most of them won't have my prompt and this causes annoyance.
Also I have a theory that it lowers chatbot performance if you're copy pasting terminal output.
- r_lee 1y agoAbout that last part, what do you mean exactly? One thing that comes to mind is it might make its output more aligned with data that includes the full terminal output, which could make it more copy-pastey?
- okasaki 1y agoI mean that chatbots might have an easier time working with terminal output with the standard prompt rather than one that has your battery, weather, git branch and aws account in it. It's just an idle thought though.
- actionfromafar 1y agoSeems perfectly reasonable. Everything unrelated is an opportunity to go off the rails.
- dpflan 1y agoI feel you, though this is why it's quite useful to have your own repo (or even just a dot file you can scp) with your dots files in them so you can "move in" to any machine and feel at home. Just clone/scp, then run your move in script. This also applies to say vimrc (choose your editor/tool of choice).