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title: "What's new #1"
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description: "What's new #1"
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slug: whats-new-1
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authors:
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- name: Jan De Dobbeleer
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title: Maintainer
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url: https://github.com/jandedobbeleer
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image_url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2492783?v=4
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tags: [weekly, ohmyposh]
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hide_table_of_contents: false
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---
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What a week it’s been! Oh My Posh turned 6 years old and we dropped a ton of stuff!
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## Swag
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After seeing Scott Hanselman wear his oh my zsh shirt while we got to talk about
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Oh My Posh on [Windows Wednesdays] [windows-wednesdays], I got the sudden urge to expand his wardrobe.
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<iframe class="youtube" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uO_F5W2LbSk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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And so, we did. Got in touch with [Marc Duiker][marc] and we got to work. The result? A ton of new goodies.
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Consider this to be **the first artist series** for Oh My Posh, a way to also highlight some talented
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people in the community. All profits go to the development of the project and artists also get a 20% royalty
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per item sold. If you know any interesting artists to work with for the next batch, be sure to let me know!
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So, what are you waiting for? Get some!
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- [Shirts][shirts]
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- [Stickers][stickers]
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## Features
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### CLI interface
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2022-05-08 09:17:13 -07:00
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Something I've been sleeping on for a long time, Oh My Posh finally has a new CLI interface.
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Starting out I had no experience in Go, nor any idea on how to create a proper CLI interface.
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Over the years the interface grew, but **_not in a very sustainable way_**, it was a chain of if statements
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which was a bit of a pain to support.
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2022-05-08 09:17:13 -07:00
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You can now interact with Oh My Posh via an interface powered by [Cobra][cobra]. Not only does this
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bring maintainability and extensibility, it at once introduces a few added features.
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#### Init
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If you paid attention to the evolution of the `init` functionality which automatically supercharges
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your prompt, you might have noticed I was always trying to make it easier for anyone to get started. When working on the
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[shirts][shirts] with Marc, it hit me we didn't really have an identifiable prompt as a first time
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experience. So, as of [7.42.0][7.42.0] Oh My Posh can initialize your prompt without specifying the
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`--config` flag. Because we have no way to know how you installed Oh My Posh, and if you have themes
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installed locally, we download the default theme, cache and use it to get you up and running right there.
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When using PowerShell for example, this is all it takes from now on:
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```powershell
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oh-my-posh init pwsh | Invoke-Expression
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```
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:::info remote config
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In case you missed it, as I haven't really done these updates before, you can also use
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a remote config file nowadays. Also **triggered by Scott Hanselman** who uses multiple devices
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but still wants the same, seamless experience everywhere. I'm sure he's not alone 😄.
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:::
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#### Export config
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While this functionality was already present, you can now also save the current config to a new
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file in the format of your choice. Combining that with the new initialization above, new users can
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right away save the default config elsewhere and tweak it to make it their own.
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```powershell
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oh-my-posh config export --output=~/.mytheme.omp.json
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```
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#### Edit
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Putting things together, all we needed additionally was a way to edit the config.
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```powershell
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oh-my-posh config edit
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```
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Almost feels natural right?
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### RRRRRRR Matey!
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Thanks to [Jed Willick][jed], who's already been on a roll for a while adding segments to Oh My Posh,
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we now have a [segment][r-segment] for [R][r] 🏴☠️. Read all about it [here][r-segment].
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## Bug fixes
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Obviously, nothing is perfect. But we aim to be! The following issues have been found and fixed:
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- We now display the right distro name in WSL
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- The poshgit prompt is now disabled when using Oh My Posh
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- Terminal titles are stripped from ANSI escape sequences, otherwise they are not displayed correctly
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- The config file now also works with the `.yml` extension and not only `.yaml`
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That's it for this week, I'll try to keep this up 🤞🏻.
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_Keep that prompt posh everyone! _
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[windows-wednesdays]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-wednesday/
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[marc]: https://twitter.com/marcduiker
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[shirts]: https://swag.ohmyposh.dev
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[stickers]: https://pimpyourowndevice.com/community/
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[cobra]: https://github.com/spf13/cobra
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[7.42.0]: https://github.com/JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh/releases/tag/v7.42.0
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[jed]: https://github.com/jedwillick
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[r-segment]: https://ohmyposh.dev/docs/r
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[r]: https://www.r-project.org/about.html
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