bartlibert/slimline

Minimal, customizable, fast and elegant ZSH prompt

slimline

Minimal, fast and elegant ZSH prompt. Displays the right information at the right time.

Features:

• sleek look
• customizable non-blocking git information display
• prompt symbol indicates if prompt background tasks are running
• exit code of last command if the exit code is not zero
• runtime of executed command if it exceeds a threshold
• username and host name if connected to a ssh server
• very customizable

With most information (connected to ssh server, runtime and exit status from last command):

For a fish compatible version of this theme have a look at slimfish.

Table Of Contents

• Requirements
  • Optional
• Installation
  • antigen
  • zplugin
  • zgen
  • Manually
• Options
  • Prompt Symbol
  • Current Working Directory
  • Exit Status
  • Execution Time
  • User and Host Info
  • AWS Profile Info
  • Auto Correction
  • Python Virtualenv
  • Git Information
    • Gitline
• Example
• Thanks
• License

Requirements

• zsh

Optional

• python 2.6+ to enable git information display

Installation

Choose one of the methods below.

antigen

antigen bundle mgee/slimline

zplugin

zplugin load mgee/slimline

zgen

zgen load mgee/slimline

Manually

Clone the repository:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/mgee/slimline.git

Source the prompt in your .zshrc (or other appropriate) file:

source <path-to-slimline>/slimline.zsh

Options

Slimline can be customized using a variety of environment variables. For an example on how to do so see the example.

Prompt Symbol

SLIMLINE_PROMPT_SYMBOL

Defines the symbol of the prompt. Default is ∙.

SLIMLINE_PROMPT_SYMBOL_COLOR_WORKING

Defines the color of the prompt when asynchronous tasks are running. Default is red.

SLIMLINE_PROMPT_SYMBOL_COLOR_READY

Defines the color of the prompt when all asynchronous tasks are finished. Default is white.

Current Working Directory

SLIMLINE_CWD_COLOR

Defines the color of the current working directory. Default is cyan.

SLIMLINE_CWD_ROOT_COLOR

Defines the color of the current working directory if it equals the root directory /. Default is red.

Exit Status

SLIMLINE_DISPLAY_EXIT_STATUS

Defines whether the exit status is displayed if the exit code is not zero. Default is 1.

SLIMLINE_EXIT_STATUS_SYMBOL

Defines the symbol of the exit status glyph. Default is ↵.

SLIMLINE_EXIT_STATUS_COLOR

Defines the color of the exit status information. Default is red.

Execution Time

SLIMLINE_DISPLAY_EXEC_TIME

Defines whether the runtime of a process is displayed if it exceeds the maximum execution time specified by the option below. Default is 1.

SLIMLINE_MAX_EXEC_TIME

Defines the maximum execution time of a process until its run time is displayed on exit. Default is 5 seconds.

SLIMLINE_EXEC_TIME_COLOR

Defines the color of the execution time. Default is yellow.

SSH Info

SLIMLINE_DISPLAY_USER_HOST_INFO

Defines whether the user@host part is displayed if the user differs from the default user or if connected to a ssh server. Default is 1.

SLIMLINE_USER_COLOR

Defines the color of the user. Default is green.

SLIMLINE_USER_ROOT_COLOR

Defines the color of the user if the user is root. Default is red.

SLIMLINE_HOST_COLOR

Defines the color of the host. Default is yellow.

SLIMLINE_DEFAULT_USER

Username to consider as the default user. By default this is the current effective user (i.e. the output of whoami)

AWS Profile Info

SLIMLINE_DISPLAY_AWS_INFO

Defines whether value of AWS_PROFILE environment variable should be displayed. Default is 0.

SLIMLINE_AWS_COLOR

Defines the color of aws profile info. Default is blue.

Auto Correction

SLIMLINE_AUTOCORRECT_MISSPELLED_COLOR

Defines the color of the misspelled string for which is correction is proposed. Default is red.

SLIMLINE_AUTOCORRECT_PROPOSED_COLOR

Defines the color of the proposed correction of a misspelled string. Default is green.

Python Virtualenv

SLIMLINE_DISPLAY_VIRTUALENV

Defines whether active python virtualenv shall be displayed. Default is 1.

SLIMLINE_VIRTUALENV_COLOR

Defines the color of the virtualenv name. Default is cyan.

SLIMLINE_VIRTUALENV_PARENS_COLOR

Defines the color of the parens surrounding the virtualenv name. Default is white.

Git Information

SLIMLINE_ENABLE_GIT

Defines whether git information shall be displayed (requires python). Default is 1.

Gitline

slimline uses gitline to display git information. gitline can be extensively customized. Have a look at the gitline options.

Example

Here is an example for customizing the prompt symbol as well as the git repository indicator and branch format:

export SLIMLINE_PROMPT_SYMBOL='$'
# If you have a powerline compatible font you can also use the alternative repo indicator ''.
export GITLINE_REPO_INDICATOR='${reset}git'
export GITLINE_BRANCH='[${blue}${branch}${reset}]'

source "<path-to-slimline>/slimline.plugin.zsh"

Thanks

• sindresorhus/pure
• sorin-ionescu/prezto

License

Released under the MIT License