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FR: Transient Prompt Post Execution Update #6054

Description

@Lockszmith-GH

Feature Request

How I use Transient Prompt

Transient Prompt is a very useful feature, especially combined with the --profile feature.

In PowerShell I have the following configuration:

function Invoke-Starship-TransientFunction {
    "$(&starship prompt --profile transient) "
}

Enable-TransientPrompt

And in my tokyo-night based starship.toml (simplified below):

format = """
$os\
$directory\
$git_branch\
$git_status\
...
$time\
$cmd_duration\
$status\
$line_break\
$character"""

command_timeout = 750 # milliseconds; default is 500    

[profiles]
transient = """
$time\
# Below items will not be rendered ( or will be rendered incorrectly)
$cmd_duration\
$status\
$character"""

This creates a clear list of invoked commands and when they were invoked.

What the FR is attempting to change

However, $cmd_duration and $status will never be rendered, because the invocation function is evaluated only before the execution. (Which is the current design)

The Request

This might be an unattainable dream, but if possible, adding an additional step at the end of the execution to update the transient prompt with the execution results would be awesome.

Alternative solutions

A post transient prompt, printing these status/duration etc, on a line just before the actual prompt, that will remain.
These will need to be conditional in the case invocation ran for over a certain minimum time or the exit code wasn't 0.

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