No starship prompt under nix-shell?

[tmpm697]

i have this simple setup:

add_newline = false
format = "$time$nix_shell$git_status$directory$character"
scan_timeout = 10

[nix_shell]
disabled = false

but when i issue nix-shell -p git --> the shell prompt is just like this [nix-shell:~/.config]$ --> this is not starship prompt

why? and any working nix_shell portion?

[mickimnet]

IIRC, you need to set up your shell.nix so that it includes the Starship prompt. Also, how did you install Starship on NixOS? Because there is are Starship options for Nix.

[tmpm697]

I had users.defaultUserShell = pkgs.zsh;

[tmpm697]

an alias should work nix-shell = "nix-shell --command zsh". Thanks.

[davidkna]

IIRC nix shell will keep you in the same shell, but in that case, you may need to enable nix_shell.heuristic to trigger the nix_shell module. To get starship in bash, you could also try enabling programs.bash in hm.

[tmpm697]

you mean smth will not work if I do alias?

[davidkna]

No, only if you use nix shell instead of nix-shell

[amok]

That's how nix works. You have to ether use it as nix-shell --command zsh or use something like https://github.com/haslersn/any-nix-shell or similar (if exists)