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| − | My prompt config is not currently online, but will be made so on request. I hope to 'publish' it properly soon when I have it cleaned up a bit more. :) |
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| + | http://wiki.thorx.net/~nemo/s/zsh_ps1.txt |
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| + | warning: it's full of comments and code cruft, both from old revisions, and also future plans. |
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Revision as of 23:44, 11 May 2010
my personal (zsh) prompt setups has, on one line
- last job exit status (invisible when zero)
- host:path in network friendly (ish) format
- path shortening to last three components, plus subtle visual indication when this occurs
- this shortening balances path context needs with space limitations. and is why the preceeding 'network friendly' format is "ish" :)
- path colourisation to indicate whether $PWD is RW or not (not usually means RO, but may also mean 'directory does not exist')
- count of background jobs (invisible if zero)
- ^ 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, but is invisible below threshold (set to 0.3 for me)
- for values of "live" that = "20 second refresh"
- this refresh ensures that an abandoned prompt will keep-alive a remote shell over dodgy NAT :)
- 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)
here is my prompt:
http://wiki.thorx.net/~nemo/s/zsh_ps1.txt
warning: it's full of comments and code cruft, both from old revisions, and also future plans.
