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minimal zsh prompt

I recently changed my zsh prompt to show only as much information as needed. I don’t need to constantly look at the time or date or the battery status of my laptop.

  • if I’m on the local machine, it displays only a “%” on the left side and the current path on the right (disappears when written ino)
  • if the current directory is under (git) version control, some git status information is displayed(thanks to zsh-git-prompt, which you need to install, if you want this too)
  • when the last command exited with a nonzero exit code, the exit code is shown on its own line
  • if I have “elevated privileges” (i.e. root), “ROOT” is displayed with a RED background and the machine name
  • if logged in over ssh, user- and hostname are displayed
  • after commands taking longer than 2 seconds some timing statistics are shown (this is not technically part of the prompt…

    • Here is the relevant part of my zshrc:

    export REPORTTIME=2

    setopt prompt_subst
    source ~/.zsh/git-prompt/zshrc.sh

    if [ $SSH_CONNECTION ]; then SSH="%n@%m"; else SSH=""; fi

    PROMPT='%(?..$PR_RED%?\

    )%{$reset_color%}%(!.$PR_RED%SROOT%s$PR_NO_COLOUR@%B%m%b.)$SSH$(git_super_status)%# '
    RPROMPT='%~'

    ps: the colour scheme is the very trendy solarized

    Dieser Beitrag wurde vor am Dienstag, 29. November 2011 um 18:15 Uhr veröffentlicht und unter Computing gespeichert. Sie können Kommentare zu diesem Eintrag über den RSS-2.0-Feed verfolgen. Sie können einen Kommentar hinterlassen oder einen Trackback von Ihrer Website hierher setzen.

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