Cool Shell Prompts

acidiclight · May 17, 2023, 5:22pm

Lots of people like customozing their Terminal’s shell prompt. Thought I’d start a thread for y’all to showcase yours.

I’d show mine but I can’t. It’s boring as hell.

It’s literally just PowerShell. Not even the latest version. Probably because I really hate it and prefer bash or fish but this is Windows.

Ashe · May 17, 2023, 9:10pm

Sure why not.

Also check out Starship which does support PowerShell.

acidiclight · May 17, 2023, 9:29pm

Oh I know it already does, but that’s not the issue The issue is that I don’t support PowerShell, I’m sure there’s a future blog article that’ll explain why. But no amount of themeing will ever make it good.

Ashe · May 17, 2023, 9:29pm

Fair enough aaaaaaa Discourse character minimum

l3gacyb3ta · May 18, 2023, 2:02am

I really love the fish default! cutting down to the first letter of the working directory rocks.

acidiclight · May 30, 2023, 3:54am

Hey y’all! I’ve just documented the game’s support for custom shell prompts. Possibly will rename this thread since it’s linked in the manual page.

https://man.sociallydistantgame.com/index.php/Prompt_Strings

Even though the game’s not out yet, there should be enough info for you to make custom shell prompts already and try them in-game when the game’s publically playable.