[COFF] What is your prompt? (was: ksh88 source code?)

[Andy Kosela]

On 12/22/21, Adam Thornton <athornton at gmail.com> wrote:
> MacOS finally pushed me to zsh.  So I went all the way and installed
> oh-my-zsh.  It makes me feel very dirty, and I have a two-line prompt (!!),
> but I can't deny it's convenient.
>
> tickets/DM-32983 ✗
> adam at m1-wired:~/git/jenkins-dm-jobs$
>
> (and in my terminal, the X glyph next to my git branch showing the status
> is dirty is red while the branch name is green)
>
> and if something doesn't exit with rc=0...
>
> adam at m1-wired:~/git/jenkins-dm-jobs$ fart
> zsh: command not found: fart
> tickets/DM-32983 ✗127 ⚠️
> adam at m1-wired:~/git/jenkins-dm-jobs$
>
> Then I also get the little warning glyph and the rc of the last command in
> my prompt.
>
> But then I'm also now using Fira Code with ligatures in my terminal, so
> I've pretty much gone full Red Lightsaber.

I try to keep my prompt as simple as possible.  For years I have been using:

  moon $

That 's it.  No fancy colors, not even displaying current working
directory.  I have an alias 'p' for that.

--Andy