Re:Use Zsh
by nakkiel on Saturday September 29, 2012 @03:39AM
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In your case, your goal is to reduce the cognitive weight of your environment.
A host name in the prompt is one more string you need to read and it's a user interface mistake as a term is for entering commands and reading their output.
I've seen people successfully using different background colors for visually telling their terms apart. It's a very good solution as there's no reading cost.
I personally use workspaces to sort terms by host and this can be very powerful if combined with tagging. This also works well but I suspect it's linked to my workflow.
A host name in the prompt is one more string you need to read and it's a user interface mistake as a term is for entering commands and reading their output.
I've seen people successfully using different background colors for visually telling their terms apart. It's a very good solution as there's no reading cost.
I personally use workspaces to sort terms by host and this can be very powerful if combined with tagging. This also works well but I suspect it's linked to my workflow.