[Solved] Alacritty auto detects file's programming language

jomo_G · 2024-02-24 14:54:18

so recently I downloaded alacritty on my new PC which has an arch on it. When I used the same configuration file from my old laptop, something weird happened. On my old laptop, alacritty will display "via <a programming langugage> <language version>" if there is a coding file. Say for example, I have a file called "something.py", when in that directory, it will display the current directory as usual along with "via Python 3.11". On my new pc, this did not happen. Just wondering if there is a way for me to fix this?

Any help would be much appreciated.

PS: Old laptop also runs an arch.

Last edited by jomo_G (2024-02-24 15:22:11)

seth · 2024-02-24 15:06:20

That's probably more a feature of your shell/prompt?
You might want to link an illustrating picture, though, to get others an idea what you're talking about.

Trilby · 2024-02-24 15:12:00

I agree it sounds like part of a prompt (PS1 or PROMPT_COMMAND). But it's also a very odd idea. What does it do / what is it supposed to do, when there are multiple "coding" files in a directory?

jomo_G · 2024-02-24 15:15:21

Here is the link
https://imgur.com/a/7ZW5zOF

seth · 2024-02-24 15:20:33

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/scrot/
That's your prompt - it has a duck in it. That didn't just happen.
You'll have to check your shell config on that system.

jomo_G · 2024-02-24 15:21:45

seth wrote:

https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/scrot/
That's your prompt - it has a duck in it. That didn't just happen.
You'll have to check your shell config on that system.

Thank you

jomo_G · 2024-02-24 23:20:02

To everyone interested in how I managed to set this up, I did a bit digging on my old laptop, turns out there is something fishy in my shell configuration file. There is an extra line of code in my ~/.bashrc file:

eval "$(starship init bash)"

so yeah as Seth said, my shell configuration file seems to be full of surprises.

Last edited by jomo_G (2024-02-24 23:20:39)

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