prompt.bash: a simple but powerful prompt for Bash
prompt.bash is a flavored prompt for Bash which provides info about the running system and environment in a fancy colored output. It works under Mac OS X and Linux.
This project is very heavily inspired by Promptastic which was in turn heavily inspired by Powerline and Powerline-shell. After dealing with nagging issue after issue with Powerline and it's bloated, messy setup, I went looking for alternatives. I then found vim-airline which perfectly fits the bill for my Vim needs, but still needed something for Bash. Promptastic was a very close fit and quite fast, but I wanted something even more simple, so this project was born. It cuts out the multi-line and left/right side prompt functionality and adds a few nice features from Powerline. It also improves upon Promptastic/Powerline's git functionality making it significantly easier (in the case of Powerline) to follow the code and it also is faster / more stable to boot.
Features
- shows the name of the logged user, the current directory path (intelligently truncated similar to Powerline);
- provides a feedback if the current directory is read-only or is not a valid path;
- warns if the last command exited with a failure code and includes the exit code;
- displays the number of active jobs;
- reveals the name of the active Python virtualenv environment;
- presents details about the current Git branch and the status of the staging area and commit;
- adds a special label in case of SSH connection with the hostname;
- colored output: there are a bunch of themes to choose from and new themes can be easily created;
- simple and automatic installation procedure;
- written in Python.
Requirements
Python pygit2 package installed
Installation
See INSTALL.md.
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