YA post about making fancy prompts - at least its not about how to make a ssh tunnel ;-)
Personally I'm never using anything, or adding any fancy setting, if it doesn't serve any direct purpose and/or is not clear, simple and efficient.
It's not because I believe "simple" and "efficient" are "cool" or "better". It's just because it's always what made _me_ efficient. I don't lose much time digging configs either, and I scan man's pretty quickly every time I need something.
In the end that means my shell looks boring. White on black. Username, host, current directory, VCS info if any. Colored output for tools that support it in a sane fashion. Merged shell history. That's it.
Defaults are in general sane. That's why they're defaults after all. Oh and redoing my dotfile is ~ 2min from memory and work everywhere obviously. I don't need to care if I'm going to spin a VM, it'll work the way I expect it without having to copy stuff and tinker around.
I do the same for the gui so i generally just run KDE or MATE. Tinkering 3 days with awesomewm or using someone's "super cool" but useless configs.. nope, not my thing ;-)
Yup. Everybody and their dog want fancy prompts with lots and lots of info, and I never understood why. Most of the time I don't need any information on my bloody prompt. I just need it to sit there and alert me if something is unusual, maybe, but not to get into my hair otherwise.
A couple of years ago I settled on one minimalist prompt, and I've used it ever since. I've even written my own post about fancy prompts[1] … I guess everybody has to have one!
I agree. In fact, reading your post, I'd nearly call your prompt fancy, mine just tells me user, and directory, everything else I'll runn a command for.
I'm largely the same. The only terminal app I did play around with the configs for was tmux because I really hated the defaults on that. And as I only ever need to run tmux from my client PC (it's a bit pointless running tmux inside of tmux), i don't have to arse about with copying config files about.
Personally I'm never using anything, or adding any fancy setting, if it doesn't serve any direct purpose and/or is not clear, simple and efficient.
It's not because I believe "simple" and "efficient" are "cool" or "better". It's just because it's always what made _me_ efficient. I don't lose much time digging configs either, and I scan man's pretty quickly every time I need something.
In the end that means my shell looks boring. White on black. Username, host, current directory, VCS info if any. Colored output for tools that support it in a sane fashion. Merged shell history. That's it.
Defaults are in general sane. That's why they're defaults after all. Oh and redoing my dotfile is ~ 2min from memory and work everywhere obviously. I don't need to care if I'm going to spin a VM, it'll work the way I expect it without having to copy stuff and tinker around.
I do the same for the gui so i generally just run KDE or MATE. Tinkering 3 days with awesomewm or using someone's "super cool" but useless configs.. nope, not my thing ;-)