On: Colorize Your CLI

[CamperBob2]

Do people really need to continuously see all the noise like .... the working directory...?

I can't imagine using a CLI prompt without knowing what directory I'm in. How would that even work?

[aspaceman → CamperBob2]

I'm an anxious ls-er. I unconsiously ls while I'm thinking in a directory, so I usually have a pretty good sense of my location.

[eddieh → CamperBob2]

I guess I usually know what directory I'm in and if I ever need a reminder I use pwd.

With at least 6 months of commands in ~/.bash_history

$ history | grep pwd | wc -l

      10

[kergonath → eddieh]

I usually have ~20 terminal windows open, some of which have sessions opened on 4 different machines. If the host name and current working directory are not in the prompt, I need to check both every time I switch windows. Otherwise there’s no way I won’t make a mistake and do some stuff in the wrong place or on the wrong server.

I can accept that my use case is not typical, but these things are actually useful.