33:T460,A non-forking prompt command is an absolute requirement for me and always has been, so I did this in pure shell. It's not a lot of code but it's a little tricksy.

If I still used bash, starship would be a non-starter for me, in part, since it's fork/execed in the prompt command. Further up this thread someone says that the zsh installation is different and it's a native shared library that gets loaded into zsh. That seems neat.

(The other reason it's a non-starter is that maybe I can stomach sending over a dotfile to various systems, but selecting a platform-specific native binary is too much configuration management to be done to prepare for an SSH session/kubectl exec. Eventually I made my peace with doing this for emacsclient so I could have local editing of remote files, but that's a lot less critical of a piece to miss than something that appears in your prompt. Conceptually, if you want to ship over/config-manage a native binary, you might as well install a better shell, which became a compelling argument to me when I switched to Powershell).34:T43c,I suppose (strictly speaking it's easier to C-x o into the terminal frame or Alt-tab to the terminal window; but it's negligble either way), but the "cost" is not really about invoking it, but learning it for an unclear payoff. Everything is different for me in dired window, navigation doesn't work the way it does in a text buffer, you have to drill down and up in steps.

On the occasion where I'm even tempted to interact with a list of files, it seems easier to do

  git diff development --name-only | gci | ocgv | sco -exp fullname | xargs e

And then pick from the list and boom, they're all in buffers. I mean, sure, that's because I set it up that way (in particular the emacsclient wrapper e, which does other smart things like find the TRAMP server, etc. etc.), and presumably there's an equivalent in dired but the distance from here to there seems paved with a lot of clunkiness. The nice thing about using the shell is that I can add to or subtract from these expressions and manipulations at will.35:T5aa,

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