PS-Agnoster has been converted to Oh-My-Posh!. The Agnoster theme is now part of a family of themes which can be easily extended with your own. Have a look.
Last week I was messing around with Linux as I needed to be able to use a Windows unfriendly tool. Given that it was 7 years ago I seriously used Linux, I asked some colleagues to help me with the setup. What I saw blew my mind. They all had nicely pimped out terminals, allowing them to easily navigate between different tabs and windows, even windows within windows. I couldn’t wait to setup all that stuff on my machine.
I started with ZSH, added prezto for that extra oomph and used tmux to top it all off. You can setup all this in less than 5 minutes, you don’t even need to have a GUI running. I SSH into a CentOS Vagrant box that has all of this set up. Trying out some themes and looking at other people’s setup I came across Agnoster.
How nice is that? I was used to having git info in my Powershell prompt already as I use Posh-Git for that but this was on a whole other level. You don’t see things like that on Windows machines. Not because it can’t be done, but people usually do not use a shell or aren’t bothered with making it better. I guess most .NET developers see it as a necessary evil rather than a powerful ally.
I found myself in an awkward situation, I was more comfortable in my Linux machine than on my beloved Windows 10. I started looking around because I couldn’t possibly be the first person on this planet with the urge to have a great shell experience on Windows. Tmux on Linux gives you a nice way to spawn new shells within you current window or a new tab. When you are used to working in single window Powershell (or CMD if you like it oldschool) this offers a new dimension. After a bit of Googling I found myself on Scott Hanselman’s blogpost about ConEmu. It has quite a lot of features so get ready to spend some time going through them all, it’s worth your while. But in case you are lazy, here’s my setup.
Even with this in place I still missed out on the awesome themes. Sure, you can change the colors but it’s still the same old shell. There is a repository on Github by Chris Benti called PS-Config that mimics Agnoster and quite well also. It only had a few issues when I used it. The powerline font I use in my ConEmu setup worked for my ZSH shell but not with PS-Config. When I used the PS-Config advised fonts it was the other way around.
Being curious how this all worked I decided to tweak it and also add the Posh-Git output as I quite like that. It took me a few days but I did it. I now have the experience I look for on Windows. There’s a few minor things I still need to add (elevated prompt, last command state) but you can get started with PS-Agnoster right now.