# Scott Hanselman inspired me...

... to finally use the "Oh My Posh" shell prompt enhancer. 

After watching some of the videos on Scott Hanselman's [YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL-fHOdarou-CR2XUmK48Og) where he prominently used the new Windows Terminal extensively and in the various shells he had pimped up shell prompts.

Yes, there are some other methods to enhance - especially the git information I find personally very useful - your shell prompt, mainly on linux shells, not so much for Windows shells. So I was impressed with ["Ho My Posh"](https://ohmyposh.dev/) and finally invested the time to pimp my unix shell prompts with it, too.

Installation was easy with brew on macos.

```
brew tap jandedobbeleer/oh-my-posh  
brew install oh-my-posh
``` 

You can find the install instructions for your flavour of Os on the ["Ho My Posh"](https://ohmyposh.dev/) website.

So here is my "Oh My Posh" configuration file (named it: ~/.omp.half-life.json):


```{
  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/main/themes/schema.json",
  "blocks": [
    {
      "type": "prompt",
      "alignment": "left",
      "segments": [
        {
          "type": "session",
          "style": "plain",
          "foreground": "#7E46B6",
          "properties": {
            "display_host": false,
            "prefix": ""
          }
        },
        {
          "type": "text",
          "style": "plain",
          "foreground": "#ffffff",
          "properties": {
            "prefix": "",
            "text": "›"
          }
        },
        {
          "type": "path",
          "style": "plain",
          "foreground": "#87FF00",
          "properties": {
            "style": "full",
            "prefix": ""
          }
        },
        {
          "type": "git",
          "style": "plain",
          "foreground": "#5FD7FF",
          "properties": {
            "prefix": "<#ffffff>:</> ",
            "branch_icon": "",
            "branch_ahead_icon": "",
            "branch_behind_icon": "",
            "branch_gone_icon": "",
            "branch_identical_icon": "",
            "commit_icon": "",
            "tag_icon": "",
            "merge_icon": "",
            "rebase_icon": "",
            "cherry_pick_icon": "",
            "working_color": "#D75F00",
            "staging_color": "#87FF00",
            "local_working_icon": " ∆",
            "local_staged_icon": " ∆",
            "status_separator_icon": "",
            "display_status": true,
            "display_status_detail": false,
            "display_branch_status": false,
            "display_stash_count": false
          }
        },
	{
	  "type": "envvar",
	  "style": "powerline",
	  "powerline_symbol": "",
	  "foreground": "#ffffff",
	  "background": "#007700",
	  "properties": {
	    "var_name": "_venv"
	  }
	},
        {
          "type": "text",
          "style": "plain",
          "foreground": "#D75F00",
          "properties": {
            "text": "›",
            "prefix": ""
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "final_space": false
}
``` 

I use this configuration in my MacBook Pro and Mac Mini in the ".zshrc" like this:

```eval "$(oh-my-posh --init --shell zsh --config ~/.omp.half-life.json)"
``` 

And so I have a nice looking - at least for me - and pimped up shell prompt, too.

![Bildschirmfoto 2021-07-10 um 20.22.29.png](https://cdn.hashnode.com/res/hashnode/image/upload/v1625941372051/i_ikucjqi.png)

So, if you have not pimped your shell prompt, I highly recommend "Oh My Posh".

As always apply this rule: "Questions, feel free to ask. If you have ideas or find errors, mistakes, problems or other things which bother or enjoy you, use your common sense and be a self-reliant human being."

Have a good one. Alex