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Starship ​

Starship is the shell prompt I use

WARNING

Starship has integration for tools like node and git. This is good aesthetically but will make the terminal slow on lower-end devices or large repos!!!

See https://github.com/starship/starship/issues/301

WARNING

Starship uses libgit2 for integration with git, and will not work if a custom version of git is required.

Prerequisites ​

  • Rust
  • dotbin
  • Make sure PowerShell 7 is also setup for installation on Windows

Install ​

bash
cargo install starship

Then use dotbin to configure it

bash
dotbin-cfg starship

TIP

dotbin-cfg starship -h to see custom config options

Shell ​

  • Windows:
    • Open the PowerShell profile
      powershell
      vipwsh
    • Add the following
      powershell
      # Starship
Invoke-Expression (&starship init powershell)
  • Linux:
    • Add the following to ~/.bashrc
      bash
      # Starship
eval "$(starship init bash)"

INFO

Restart the terminal and you should see the starship prompt.

Windows Defender ​

Run as admin and add the following to the Windows Defender exclusions for faster startup

powershell
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess starship