Make your terminal stylish, functional, and fast.

None of that bloated nonsense.

Made to replace oh-my-posh because it was too slow and complicated.

• oh-my-go
  • Table of contents
  • What is oh-my-go?
  • Installation
    • Obtaining the binary
      • Global install (unix)
      • Local install (unix)
      • Local install (windows)
    • Installing it to your shell
      • ZSH
      • Bash
      • Fish
      • Powershell
      • Other POSIX shells
      • CMD
  • Customization
    • Plugins
    • List of plugins
  • Hostname & User
  • Prompt customization

oh-my-go is a shell engine that is designed to be fast and opinionated.

It is not customizable (unless you know go), which allows it to be faster than other shell engines.

It supports a wide variety of shells.

Additionally, oh-my-go changes your PS1 and that's it. No confusing aliases, no unexplained flags, nothing.

It supports one singular theme: robbyrussels, because it's functional and pretty.

First, download a suitable binary from the releases, or clone the repository and compile it yourself by running make.

Then, move the binary into PATH.

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
sudo mv oh-my-go* /usr/local/bin/oh-my-go
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/oh-my-go

Warning You may see an error that oh-my-go wasn't found, if you see this you may not have ~/.local/bin/ in your PATH.

Here there are instructions on how to add it from another one of my projects.

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin
mv oh-my-go* ~/.local/bin/oh-my-go
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/oh-my-go

To install oh-my-go on windows, move the oh-my-go binary to a place where it will not be deleted and rename it to oh-my-go.

Keep and mind if you don't have oh-my-go in your path you can replace it with the location.

So for zsh, instead of:

echo 'set -o PROMPT_SUBST' >> .zshrc
echo 'PS1='"'\$( oh-my-go prompt --shell=zsh --pwd=\$PWD --user=\$USER --exitcode=\$? --hostname=\$HOST )'" >> ~/.zshrc

you could do:

echo 'set -o PROMPT_SUBST' >> .zshrc
echo 'PS1='"'\$( /path/to/oh-my-go prompt --shell=zsh --pwd=\$PWD --user=\$USER --exitcode=\$? --hostname=\$HOST )'" >> ~/.zshrc

echo 'set -o PROMPT_SUBST' >> .zshrc
echo 'PS1='"'\$( oh-my-go prompt --shell=zsh --pwd=\$PWD --user=\$USER --exitcode=\$? --hostname=\$HOST )'" >> ~/.zshrc

echo 'PS1='"'\$( oh-my-go prompt --shell=bash --pwd=\$PWD --user=\$USER --exitcode=\$? --hostname=\$HOSTNAME )'" >> ~/.bashrc

mkdir -p ~/.config/fish/

echo >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish 'if status is-interactive
    function fish_prompt
        printf (oh-my-go prompt --shell=fish --pwd=\$PWD --user=\$USER --exitcode=\$status --hostname=(prompt_hostname))
    end
end
'

You need to add:

function prompt {
  "$(\Location\To\oh-my-go prompt --shell=powershell --pwd=$PWD --user=$UserName --exitcode=$LASTEXITCODE --hostname=$COMPUTERNAME)"
}

to your $PROFILE.

I didn't create a specific command because powershell is garbage.

You should add:

PS1='$( oh-my-go prompt --shell=sh --pwd=$PWD --user=$USER --exitcode=$? --hostname=$HOSTNAME )'

to your shell's rc/profile file.

Please open an issue and I might add instructions/support for that shell.

Nope. You're on your own.

You can use specific plugins by setting OMGO_PLUGINS to a string which has all your plugins seperated by spaces. Like so on bash:

export OMGO_PLUGINS="git node python"

• git
• python
• ruby
• node
• rust

If you use a lot of different devices, you can set OMGO_SHOW_USER_HOSTNAME=1 which will add an extra bit at the beginning of your prompt which displays your username and hostname.

Example on bash:

export OMGO_SHOW_USER_HOSTNAME=1

Note This is an "unofficial" modification to the theme which was not explicitly defined by robbyrussell himself.

If you're even slightly familiar with golang, this shouldn't be too bad.

You need to edit internal/prompt/prompt.go and from there you can make small adjustments like change some characters or add a newline and so on so fourth.

Then, recompile & install oh-my-go.