nushell/reedline

Feature Vision Discussion: Prompt

sholderbach opened this issue ยท 1 comments

This issue is part of the larger vision discussion managed in #63 to brainstorm and prioritize ideas around features that would make reedline as a line editor for you both viable as well as pleasant to use. Feel free to up-vote features you depend on in other tools/shells as well as suggest new ideas!

Prompt Features

  • Ability to have Colors/Styles/Themes
  • Ability to have Left Side Prompt
  • Ability to have Right Side Prompt
  • Ability to have Animated Prompt - Clock, Ansi Spinners like -|/
  • Ability to use external prompts like starship or oh-my-posh
  • Ability to make prompt extensible
  • Asynchronous prompt that can't be stalled by long running status extensions
  • Ability to have modules that can be used to construct part of the prompt like battery, ssh, git, memory, disk space, pwd, clock, exit status, etc

Current voting

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  • ๐Ÿ‘ Ability to have customizable Colors/Styles/Themes
  • ๐Ÿ‘Ž Ability to have Left Side Prompt in line
  • ๐Ÿ˜„ Ability to have Right Side Prompt
  • ๐ŸŽ‰ Ability to have Animated Prompt - Clock, Ansi Spinners like -|/
  • ๐Ÿ˜• Ability to use external prompts like starship or oh-my-posh
  • โค๏ธ Ability to make prompt extensible
  • ๐Ÿš€ Asynchronous prompt that can't be stalled by long running status extensions
  • ๐Ÿ‘€ Ability to have modules that can be used to construct part of the prompt (see above)