Oh-my-posh Config

OhMyPosh SetupGuide.md

• Originally adapteed from Scott Hanselman's excellent guide.
• Updated in 2021-08 for oh-my-posh v3.
• Uses a theme based on Paradox theme
  • Short folder names, special icons for Registry, Home, etc
  • Different prompt icon when running as admin
  • Shows last exit code
  • Timing info for long-running commands
  • Git status

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1. Install Windows Terminal (from Store)
2. Install Scoop
3. Install Powershell stuff:

   scoop install posh-git
   Install-Module oh-my-posh -Scope CurrentUser
   sudo Install-Module -Name Recycle

4. Install nerd-font

   scoop bucket add nerd-fonts
   sudo scoop install Delugia-Nerd-Font-Complete

1. In Windows Terminal, Ctrl+Shift+, to open settings.json
2. Add

{
    "profiles":
    {
        "defaults":
        {
            "fontFace": "Delugia"
        }
    }
}

5. Create the other files listed here

~\Documents\PowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShell_profile.ps1

Set-PoshPrompt ~\Documents\PowerShell\paradox-greg.omp.json

# Produce UTF-8 by default
# https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12991690
$PSDefaultParameterValues["Out-File:Encoding"] = "utf8"

# bash-style completion
Set-PSReadlineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function Complete

~\Documents\PowerShell\paradox-greg.omp.json

{
  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/main/themes/schema.json",
  "console_title": true,
  "console_title_style": "template",
  "console_title_template": "{{ if .Root }}\u26A1{{end}} {{ .Path }}",
  "blocks": [
    {
		  "type": "prompt",
      "alignment": "left",
      "segments": [
        {
          "type": "session",
          "style": "powerline",
          "powerline_symbol": "\uE0B0",
          "foreground": "#100e23",
          "background": "#ffffff",
          "properties": {
            "display_host": true,
            "default_user_name": "greg",
            "display_default": false
          }
        },
        {
          "type": "path",
          "style": "powerline",
          "powerline_symbol": "\uE0B0",
          "foreground": "#100e23",
          "background": "#91ddff",
          "properties": {
            "folder_icon": "\u2026",
            "windows_registry_icon": "<#cc00cc>\ue5fc</>",
            "folder_separator_icon": "\\",
            "style": "agnoster_short",
            "max_depth": 7,
            "enable_hyperlink": true
          }
        },
        {
          "type": "git",
          "style": "powerline",
          "powerline_symbol": "\uE0B0",
          "foreground": "#193549",
          "background": "#95ffa4",
          "properties": {
            "display_status": true
          }
        },
        {
          "type": "exit",
          "style": "powerline",
          "powerline_symbol": "\uE0B0",
          "foreground": "#ffffff",
          "background": "#006100",
          "properties": {
            "error_icon": "\uF468",
            "error_color": "#ff8080",
            "always_numeric": true,
            "color_background": true,
            "always_enabled": false,
            "success_icon": "\uF62B"
          }
        },
        {
          "type": "executiontime",
          "style": "powerline",
          "powerline_symbol": "\uE0B0",
          "foreground": "#ffffff",
          "background": "#30004e",
          "properties": {
            "threshold": 100,
            "style": "austin",
            "prefix": " \uFA1A"
          }
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "prompt",
      "alignment": "left",
      "newline": true,
      "segments": [
        {
          "type": "text",
          "style": "plain",
          "foreground": "#007ACC",
          "properties": {
            "prefix": "",
            "text": "{{if .Root}}<#ffe9aa>\uF0E7</>{{else}}\u03BB{{end}}"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "final_space": false
}