Prompt

Revision as of 09:36, 23 November 2009

my personal (zsh) prompt setups has

• last exit status (teal normally, red with number when non-zero
• host:path in network friendly (ish) format
• path shortening to last three components, plus subtle visual indication when this occurs
• path colourisation to indicate $PWD RW vs RO
• ^ and $ reminder mnemonic for regex start/end line matching (I have a dyslexia about this!)
• live time and load average (load gets dynamic colourisation also)
  • for values of "live" that = "20 second refresh"
• current tty

== ideas I don't currently implement

• per-host auto-colourisation
• vcs_info (I would probably replace tty info with this, with a colourisation to help the glancing eye notice)