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Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt

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Overview

Most prompts are cluttered, ugly and slow. We wanted something visually pleasing that stayed out of our way.

Why?

Install

Can be installed with npm (not yarn) or manually. Requires Git 2.15.2+ and ZSH 5.2+. Older versions of ZSH are known to work, but they are not recommended.

npm

npm install --global pure-prompt

That's it. Skip to Getting started.

Homebrew

brew install pure

If you're not using ZSH from Homebrew (brew install zsh and $(brew --prefix)/bin/zsh), you must also add the site-functions to your fpath in $HOME/.zshrc:

fpath+=("$(brew --prefix)/share/zsh/site-functions")

Manually

  1. Clone this repo somewhere. Here we'll use $HOME/.zsh/pure.
mkdir -p "$HOME/.zsh"
git clone https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure.git "$HOME/.zsh/pure"
  1. Add the path of the cloned repo to $fpath in $HOME/.zshrc.
# .zshrc
fpath+=($HOME/.zsh/pure)

Getting started

Initialize the prompt system (if not so already) and choose pure:

# .zshrc
autoload -U promptinit; promptinit
prompt pure

Options

OptionDescriptionDefault value
PURE_CMD_MAX_EXEC_TIMEThe max execution time of a process before its run time is shown when it exits.5 seconds
PURE_GIT_PULLPrevents Pure from checking whether the current Git remote has been updated.1
PURE_GIT_UNTRACKED_DIRTYDo not include untracked files in dirtiness check. Mostly useful on large repos (like WebKit).1
PURE_GIT_DELAY_DIRTY_CHECKTime in seconds to delay git dirty checking when git status takes > 5 seconds.1800 seconds
PURE_PROMPT_SYMBOLDefines the prompt symbol.❯
PURE_PROMPT_VICMD_SYMBOLDefines the prompt symbol used when the vicmd keymap is active (VI-mode).❮
PURE_GIT_DOWN_ARROWDefines the git down arrow symbol.⇣
PURE_GIT_UP_ARROWDefines the git up arrow symbol.⇡
PURE_GIT_STASH_SYMBOLDefines the git stash symbol.≡

Zstyle options

Showing git stash status as part of the prompt is not activated by default. To activate this you'll need to opt in via zstyle:

zstyle :prompt:pure:git:stash show yes

You can set Pure to only git fetch the upstream branch of the current local branch. In some cases, this can result in faster updates for Git arrows, but for most users, it's better to leave this setting disabled. You can enable it with:

zstyle :prompt:pure:git:fetch only_upstream yes

nix-shell integration adds the shell name to the prompt when used from within a nix shell. It is enabled by default, you can disable it with:

zstyle :prompt:pure:environment:nix-shell show no

Colors

As explained in ZSH's manual, color values can be:

Colors can be changed by using zstyle with a pattern of the form :prompt:pure:$color_name and style color. The color names, their default, and what part they affect are:

The following diagram shows where each color is applied on the prompt:

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────── user
│      ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────── host
│      │           ┌─────────────────────────────────── path
│      │           │          ┌──────────────────────── git:branch
│      │           │          │     ┌────────────────── git:dirty
│      │           │          │     │ ┌──────────────── git:action
│      │           │          │     │ │        ┌─────── git:arrow
│      │           │          │     │ │        │ ┌───── git:stash
│      │           │          │     │ │        │ │ ┌─── execution_time
│      │           │          │     │ │        │ │ │
zaphod@heartofgold ~/dev/pure master* rebase-i ⇡ ≡ 42s
venv ❯
│    │
│    └───────────────────────────────────────────────── prompt
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────── virtualenv (or prompt:continuation)

RGB colors

There are two ways to use RGB colors with the hexadecimal format. The correct way is to use a terminal that support 24-bit colors and enable this feature as explained in the terminal's documentation.

If you can't use such terminal, the module zsh/nearcolor can be useful. It will map any hexadecimal color to the nearest color in the 88 or 256 color palettes of your terminal, but without using the first 16 colors, since their values can be modified by the user. Keep in mind that when using this module you won't be able to display true RGB colors. It only allows you to specify colors in a more convenient way. The following is an example on how to use this module:

# .zshrc
zmodload zsh/nearcolor
zstyle :prompt:pure:path color '#FF0000'

Example

# .zshrc

autoload -U promptinit; promptinit

# optionally define some options
PURE_CMD_MAX_EXEC_TIME=10

# change the path color
zstyle :prompt:pure:path color white

# change the color for both `prompt:success` and `prompt:error`
zstyle ':prompt:pure:prompt:*' color cyan

# turn on git stash status
zstyle :prompt:pure:git:stash show yes

prompt pure

Tips

In the screenshot you see Pure running in Hyper with the hyper-snazzy theme and Menlo font.

The Tomorrow Night Eighties theme with the Droid Sans Mono font (15pt) is also a nice combination.<br> Just make sure you have anti-aliasing enabled in your terminal.

To have commands colorized as seen in the screenshot, install zsh-syntax-highlighting.

Integration

oh-my-zsh

  1. Set ZSH_THEME="" in your .zshrc to disable oh-my-zsh themes.
  2. Follow the Pure Install instructions.
  3. Do not enable the following (incompatible) plugins: vi-mode, virtualenv.

NOTE: oh-my-zsh overrides the prompt so Pure must be activated after source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh.

prezto

Pure is bundled with Prezto. No need to install it.

Add prompt pure to your ~/.zpreztorc.

zim

Add zmodule sindresorhus/pure --source async.zsh --source pure.zsh to your .zimrc and run zimfw install.

zplug

Update your .zshrc file with the following two lines:

zplug mafredri/zsh-async, from:github
zplug sindresorhus/pure, use:pure.zsh, from:github, as:theme

zinit

Update your .zshrc file with the following two lines (order matters):

zinit ice compile'(pure|async).zsh' pick'async.zsh' src'pure.zsh'
zinit light sindresorhus/pure

zi

Update your .zshrc file with the following line:

zi light-mode for @sindresorhus/pure

See the ZI wiki for more.

FAQ

There are currently no FAQs.

See FAQ Archive for previous FAQs.

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Team

Sindre SorhusMathias Fredriksson
Sindre SorhusMathias Fredriksson