powerline-shell

I thought that using Makefile targets was the shortest friendliest to show what a project can do. Turns out make and Makefiles can be mysterious when they fail. Tutorials are "best-effort" and often don't dwell on the rabbit-holes they create when a poor soul runs astray of the sunny path. Example of a good tutorial: Python's powerline shell: https://github.com/b-ryan/powerline-shell The README is succinct. Well put together.

Looks like some type of powerline plugin for their shell https://github.com/b-ryan/powerline-shell

I use powerline-shell in zshell, and was also extremely annoyed by the delay. So, I decided to rewrite https://github.com/banga/powerline-shell in go, and the performance is amazing. The latency went down from several seconds to 200µs (except when git is used, then it’s ~4ms), and it’s fast enough. The repo is at https://github.com/justjanne/powerline-go. Here’s a small video showing just how different the latency is: https://s3.kuschku.de/public/2017-08-21_16-43-41.mp4. Disclaimer: Although the original was MIT, I licensed my rewrite under GPLv3. Improving the latency of software is just such an amazing quality-of-life improvement, it was well worth those 10 hours of work.

I decided to rewrite https://github.com/banga/powerline-shell in go after reading this article yesterday evening (almost done, only mercurial, svn and fossil are missing), and the performance is amazing. The latency went down to 200µs (except when git is used, then it’s ~4ms), and it’s fast enough. Here’s a video: https://s3.kuschku.de/public/2017-08-21_16-43-41.mp4 I’ll put it on https://github.com/justjanne/powerline-go later today, once I’m done.

Windows - https://amreldib.com/blog/CustomizeWindowsCmderPrompt/ zsh - https://gist.githubusercontent.com/agnoster/3712874/raw/c310... powerline theme on github - https://github.com/banga/powerline-shell

As an aside, in terms of design and little helpers (e.g. git/virtualenv) powerline shell really made my terminal much more friendly: https://github.com/banga/powerline-shell Idea: proper graphics for data/image/video display. I think it's an interesting idea that a terminal editor can have text only input, but the ability to draw real high-res graphical output. e.g. a canvas to draw your matplotlib diagram in the terminal output or a more graphical version of htop (with time data graphs etc).

Same thing for shells (bash, zsh, fish): https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell

I like https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell a lot too. In special my Bazaar-enabled fork: https://github.com/rbanffy/powerline-shell

http://i.imgur.com/677PMkn.jpg Today I tested https://github.com/rbanffy/testable_appengine on Windows and thought I should add a mention to the README. This is completely unrelated to my day job, but we all have hobbies. Also, about a week ago, I fixed https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font so now it works with https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell

It's powerline-shell https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell