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by Narushia 879 days ago
Switching to Starship was actually what inspired me to also switch from Bash to Fish. Purely because of the transient prompt feature, which is not supported for Bash.

With the transient prompt, you can have things like Git or Kubernetes status on your “main prompt”, but without always printing them in the terminal for the commands you ran previously. It keeps the history much cleaner, and therefore more pleasant to scroll back up. I've also configured it to print the time when the commands were executed to the start of the lines.

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I’m not sure I understand. Do you have a screenshot shot of something with and without transient prompt that shows the difference?
There's a good example in the Oh My Posh documentation: https://ohmyposh.dev/docs/configuration/transient