A Powerline-style prompt for Bash

https://github.com/milkbikis/dotfiles-mac#bash

by milkbikis • 14 years ago

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mikeroher2• 14 years ago

Anybody else having problems getting it to work? It's just flashing for me. I've installed a patched version of Inconsolata but still no luck.

milkbikis9• 14 years ago

Note: showing colors in terminals is done through ANSI codes which have varying levels of compatibility with different terminals. For me, this works on an iTerm terminal, with $TERM set to xterm-256color.

mikeroher2• 14 years ago

Yeah that was the problem. I realized that Snow Leopard's default terminal doesn't have support for ANSI colors..I think. Anyways, if you're on Snow Leopard or earlier versions of Mac OSX, you need to use iTerm2. Also, to make the PS1 smaller, you can delete the two lines in the last method (the constructor I think) that prints the hostname and user. So, delete or comment:

   p.append(' \u ', 250, 240)
   p.append(' \h ', 250, 238)

JulianWasTaken• 14 years ago

Oh, boy, props for getting this working, but this looks really distracting to actually use as a prompt for my tastes.

milkbikis9• 14 years ago

Yeah, I also have one that fixes the prompt to the top so you only see a small '$' at the current line, but it messes up the terminal history.

pdenya• 14 years ago

By messes up terminal history do you mean when you push up in terminal the previous lines that show up are rendered badly or that your actual history is effected in some way?

ralph2• 14 years ago

I too prefer just PS1='$ ', I want the cursor to be the same distance from the margin every time, to have maximum length for typing without wrapping, and the ability to put in a few separator lines between command output by just tapping Return.

However, for your problem, have you considered the terminal's title instead of the top line of the tty? printf '\033]0;foo\007'

johnleppings2• 14 years ago

How do you make your $ character appear smaller than usual?

johnleppings2• 14 years ago

You said that you used "a small '$'". How's it any smaller than usual?

yankcrime• 14 years ago

Clever, but Powerline-themed context around your current shell environment seems more suited to implementation in something like tmux - see https://github.com/erikw/tmux-powerline or http://www.drbunsen.org/text-triumvirate.html

oelmekki2• 14 years ago

I defenitely like the "make previous return status obvious" thing. Will use that idea in my prompt, thanks.

cellularmitosis• 14 years ago

Here's what I use: https://gist.github.com/3686357

It looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/523PD.png

oelmekki2• 14 years ago

Thanks. After reading the post, I turned my prompt into that : https://gist.github.com/648a75ec821acff10749

which looks like that : http://i.imgur.com/Qc86I.png

I like having an uri directly pastable to scp. Also, as mentioned in other comments, Having a fixed length prompt on the command line is quite appreciable.

I'm unsatisfied, though, with the need of subshells to draw a single prompt. It's ok for the git part, but I feel like the PROMPT_COMMAND part is a hack, I just can't succeed in making it displays colors (rather than escaped characters) without a subshell.

shell0x• 14 years ago

I don't like the powerline style for displaying the path, but I like it in tmux. It looks really awesome compared to the defaults(green background for the status line).

davorb• 14 years ago

The same thing for zsh https://github.com/jeremyFreeAgent/oh-my-zsh-powerline-theme

sdfjkl• 14 years ago

Patching my fonts seems a bit excessive just for a fancy prompt.

Evbn2• 14 years ago

Why are the colors broken (in ' Library') in the riced up vim?

milkbikis9• 14 years ago

That's the CtrlP vim plugin, which runs a fuzzy search. In the screenshot I'm in the middle of a search so the matched part is partially highlighted.

Evbn2• 14 years ago

Powrlbe is nifty. How do I subscribe to news about new tech stuff like that? I don't remember seeing it here.

milkbikis9• 14 years ago

I'd like to know too. Just saw it in a dotfile.

A Powerline-style prompt for Bash

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