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mshp

A minimal and fast shell prompt written in Rust.

Installation

Building from source

1. Install and setup Rust
2. Run cargo install mshp

Pre-compiled binary

1. Download a binary from the releases page
2. Move the binary to your PATH

Usage

Bash, Dash, Ksh, etc.

On most POSIX compatible shells you can add the following line to your init file (e.g. .bashrc):

PS1="$(mshp)"

Zsh

Add the following to your .zshrc file:

precmd() {
    PS1="$(mshp)"
}

Ion

Add the following to your .config/ion/initrc file:

fn PROMPT
    echo -n "$(mshp)"
end

Configuration

mshp can be configured via environment variables.

Variable types

• Color: Takes one of the following as value:

  • default (case insensitive) (sets the color to the default foreground color defined by the terminal)
  • A written out ANSII color (black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white) (case insensitive)
  • A ANSII number (e.g. 1 for red)
  • A hex color beginning with # (e.g. #00F or #0000FF for blue)

• Boolean: Takes either 0/false (deactivate setting) or 1/true (activate setting) as value

• String: Takes any value

Available environment variables

• MSHP_PATH_COLOR

  Sets the foreground color of the current working directory.

  Type: Color, Default: blue

• MSHP_GIT_BRANCH_ICON

  Sets the icon that is displayed next to the git branch.

  Type: String, Default: 

• MSHP_GIT_BRANCH_COLOR

  Sets the foreground color used to display the git branch and the icon.

  Type: Color, Default: cyan

• MSHP_GIT_BRANCH_DISABLE

  Disables the git branch and icon.

  Type: Boolean, Default: false

• MSHP_GIT_STATUS_STAGED_ICON

  Sets the icon that is used to indicate uncommited and staged changes in the git repo.

  Type: String, Default: +

• MSHP_GIT_STATUS_UNSTAGED_ICON

  Sets the icon that is used to indicate uncommited and unstaged changes in the git repo.

  Type: String, Default: !

• MSHP_GIT_STATUS_UNTRACKED_ICON

  Sets the icon that is used to indicate untracked files in the git repo.

  Type: String, Default: !

• MSHP_GIT_STATUS_AHEAD_ICON

  Sets the icon that is used to indicate that your local branch is ahead of the upstream branch.

  Type: String, Default: ↥

• MSHP_GIT_STATUS_BEHIND_ICON

  Sets the icon that is used to indicate that your local branch is behind the upstream branch.

  Type: String, Default: ↧

• MSHP_GIT_STATUS_COLOR

  Sets the color for the above mentioned icons.

  Type: Color, Default: cyan

• MSHP_GIT_STATUS_DISABLE

  Disables the above mentioned icons.

  Type: Boolean, Default: false

• MSHP_CHAR_USER_ICON

  Sets the icon that is displayed at the end of the prompt to indicate that the current user is not the root user.

  Type: String, Default: $

• MSHP_CHAR_USER_COLOR

  Sets the color for the user character.

  Type: Color, Default: green

• MSHP_CHAR_USER_FAILED_ICON

  Sets the icon that is displayed at the end of the prompt to indicate that the current user is not the root user when the previous command failed.

  Type: String, Default: $

• MSHP_CHAR_USER_FAILED_COLOR

  Sets the color for the user character when the previous command failed.

  Type: Color, Default: red

• MSHP_CHAR_ROOT_ICON

  Sets the icon that is displayed at the end of the prompt to indicate that the current user is the root user.

  Type: String, Default: #

• MSHP_CHAR_ROOT_COLOR

  Sets the color for the root character.

  Type: Color, Default: green

• MSHP_CHAR_ROOT_FAILED_ICON

  Sets the icon that is displayed at the end of the prompt to indicate that the current user is the root user when the previous command failed.

  Type: String, Default: #

• MSHP_CHAR_ROOT_FAILED_COLOR

  Sets the color for the root character when the previous command failed.

  Type: Color, Default: red

License

Licensed under either of Apache License, Version 2.0 or MIT License at your option.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this crate by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.