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by skyfaller 1708 days ago
I have to say, I use fish and I customize my prompt... is starship really necessary? I recognize starship is cross-shell, but if I standardize on installing fish on my machines, I'm not sure I need that feature.

Is there a "killer app" for starship that you can't get from writing out your prompt in a fish shell script?

Here's mine: https://github.com/maximum-ethics/linode-caddy/blob/master/r...

It's a 3-line prompt with a timestamp on the first line, my username@host + pwd on the 2nd line, and the actual prompt with the cursor on the 3rd line. I'm now considering swapping the timestamp to the right side after that possibility was mentioned in other comments in this thread.