Prompt

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
  • http://screwtape.jottit.com/per-host_prompt_colouring
• vcs_info (I would probably replace tty info with this, with a colourisation to help the glancing eye notice)
  • http://ft.bewatermyfriend.org/comp/zsh/functions/prompt_ft_setup.html
  • http://bewatermyfriend.org/media/vcs_info0.png