write release announcement

[jedahan]

for subreddits

• [ ] r/zsh
• [ ] r/unixporn
• [ ] r/commandline

[jedahan]

from @MarioRicalde

For #3 what's the message that we want to convey? I can write a quick draft and we can go from there.

Things that I think are important to share

• It is simple to customize
  • Does not require plugins to be 'geometry-compatable'
  • Maybe we show two very different prompts, and what the customization looks like?
• It is super lightweight
  • geometry.zsh is just 67 lines of code, everything else is just functions
  • right prompt is rendered async so it is super fast
  • geometry does not take over your shell
• It does not require learning anything new/framework-y
  • just make functions that echo something
  • and add them to GEOMETRY_PROMPT/GEOMETRY_RPROMPT

Things I am not sure if we should convey

• GEOMETRY_INFO - might muddle the message

I cannot think of much more right now

[jedahan]

First draft:

geometry 2 - simpler and lighter

geometry is a zsh prompt that is simple, fast, and easy to customize.

After a year of testing, we are happy to release version 2, which is easier to customize, is less than half the size of version one, and has dozens of fixed bugs.

Now any function that prints to stdout can be added to your left prompt, right prompt, or in an empty command. Put long running functions in GEOMETRY_RPROMPT and they will render asynchronously.

We ship with 16 functions that only show up when appropriate - for example when in a git repo or using a non-default virtualenv.

We are happy to get any feedback. More details and screenshots are in the readme