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Get set up quickly for working with software at dxw
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Starship font support #25

Closed yndajas closed 2 years ago

yndajas commented 2 years ago

Issue

The script installs Starship (via the Brewfile), which by default has a Nerd Font prerequisite, but the script doesn't cover this. Without it, various icons that Starship uses to represent technologies like Git will appear as question mark boxes

Solutions

Option 1: mostly automatic

Option 2: manual

Update the guide to instruct people to:

erbridge commented 2 years ago

I like either option 1 but automating the font settings or dropping Starship in favour of something else. The aim of this script is to be as low interaction as possible, and for something like a prompt, I don't think it's worth leaving people with required follow up actions they need to take for the thing to be useful.