Powerline style prompt for Zsh

This is a fork from https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-bash

A Powerline like prompt for Zsh:

• Shows some important details about the git branch:
  • Displays the current git branch which changes background color when the branch is dirty
  • A '+' appears when untracked files are present
  • When the local branch differs from the remote, the difference in number of commits is shown along with '⇡' or '⇣' indicating whether a git push or pull is pending
• Changes color if the last command exited with a failure code
• If you're too deep into a directory tree, shortens the displayed path with an ellipsis
• Shows the current Python virtualenv environment
• It's all done in a Python script, so you could go nuts with it

Setup

• This script uses ANSI color codes to display colors in a terminal. These are notoriously non-portable, so may not work for you out of the box, but try setting your $TERM to xterm-256color, because that works for me. i.e. edit your

  .zshrc

  file to add:

  export TERM='xterm-256color'
  

If you still face problems seeing colors then read this: https://gist.github.com/3749830#filepowerlinezsh_instructions.md

• Patch the font you use for your terminal. Download the font from: https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline/wiki/Patched-fonts Follow the instructions: https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline/tree/develop/fontpatcher#font-patching-guide

• Clone this repository somewhere:

  git clone https://github.com/carlcarl/powerline-zsh
  

• Create a symlink to the python script in your home:

  ln -s  ~/powerline-zsh.py
  

If you don't want the symlink, just modify the path in the

.zshrc

• Now add the following to your

  .zshrc

  :

function _update_ps1()
{
    export PROMPT="$(~/powerline-zsh.py $?)"
}
precmd()
{
    _update_ps1
}

• powerline-zsh.py usage:

-h, --help  show this help message and exit
--cwd-only  Hide parent directory
--hostname  Show hostname at the begin
-m    Choose icon font: default, compatible, patched or konsole.
            Default is "default"

Python version note

Most of the distros use

Python2

Archlinux

Python3

powerline-zsh

Python3

1. Use the newest version of

   powerline-zsh

   . Just download from the

   master

   branch.
2. Modify the

   .zshrc

   content, use

   python2

   to execute it.

function _update_ps1()
{
    export PROMPT="$(python2 ~/powerline-zsh.py $?)"
}
precmd()
{
    _update_ps1
}

Pypy note

You can use

pypy

.zshrc

function _update_ps1()
{
    error=$?
    if [[ -s "/usr/local/bin/pypy" ]]; then
        export PROMPT="$(pypy ~/powerline-zsh.py $error)"
    else
        export PROMPT="$(~/powerline-zsh.py $error)"
    fi
}
precmd()
{
    _update_ps1
}

konsole user note

You may not see the icons when using konsole. To solve this problem, you can use

-m

function _update_ps1()
{
    export PROMPT="$(~/powerline-zsh.py -m konsole $?)"
}
precmd()
{
    _update_ps1
}

Authors and License

The

powerline-zsh

Feel free to improve this package and send a pull request to GitHub.