Re: Pimp your shell - Debian developer tips?
Awesome :D. I took a look at liquidprompt and the article having just
seen the email I'm responding to. It'll take a little getting used to,
but I'm liking it. I've just been using plain defaults (gnome terminal,
bash/dash) here except one customisation of re-enabling the colour
prompt to better find it in large output. Thanks for bringing this to
my attention!
One issue though, the article suggests placing this:
```
# Ensure Gnome Terminal shows the prompt correctly
PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]2;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}: ${PWD/$HOME/~}\007"'
PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a; history -c; history -r;$PROMPT_COMMAND"
```
into the .bashrc file, but not where is best to place it (or why it's
supposedly needed). Placing it at the end of the file, this results in
a prompt like this for me:
"${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}lyndon@laptop:~$"
which is clearly not right.
Placing it just before this block though:
```
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033>
else
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\$ '
fi
```
it seems to avoid that bug, but I don't see an immediate difference to
not having it at all...
On Fri, 2020-09-25 at 21:15 +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Hello!
>
> ma 8. kesäk. 2020 klo 12.04 Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
> (arturo@debian.org) kirjoitti:
> > On 5/27/20 9:06 PM, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > Do we have Debian devs here who have pimped their shell heavily
> > > with custom
> > > prompts, colors, command line fonts, shell window title hacks,
> > > perhaps using zsh
> > > etc? Have you written blogs about you experiences, can you share
> > > some good reads
> > > (with screenshots) of what you have done?
> > >
> > > I've read a bit on zsh and powerline and the like, but I am
> > > annoyed that all
> > > those blog posts are quite superficial and do not mention
> > > security,
> > > interoperability or performance aspects. Frankly any blog post
> > > that recommends
> > > cloning random repos or even worse, running wget | sh something
> > > gives me chills.
> ...
> > Take a look at liquidprompt(1).
> >
> > Is what I use everywhere!
>
> This turned out to be my favourite tip. I've written about my
> experiences and why I love it so much at
> https://linuxnatives.net/2020/liquid-prompt in case others are
> interested.
>
> And thanks to Arturo for packaging it and for recently uploading the
> latest version of it to Debian unstable!
>
> - Otto
>
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