Introduction

Yazi users making use of the dropping to the shell tip may want to display an indicator to easily know they're inside a yazi subshell. The following are simple instructions needed to accomplish that. If your shell theme is not listed below and requires specific instructions to work, feel free to submit a PR!

Instructions

Bash

Default prompt

Copy and paste this into a terminal:

git clone https://github.com/Sonico98/yazi-prompt.sh ./yazi-prompt && \
chmod +x ./yazi-prompt/posix/yazi.sh && \
cp ./yazi-prompt/posix/yazi.sh  ~/.yazi.sh && \
echo '''source ~/.yazi.sh''' >> ~/.bashrc && \
rm -rf ./yazi-prompt

Then open a new shell or run source ~/.bashrc.

Zsh

Default prompt

Copy and paste this into a terminal:

git clone https://github.com/Sonico98/yazi-prompt.sh ./yazi-prompt && \
chmod +x ./yazi-prompt/posix/yazi.sh && \
cp ./yazi-prompt/posix/yazi.sh  "$ZDOTDIR"/.yazi.sh && \
echo '''source "$ZDOTDIR"/.yazi.sh''' >> "$ZDOTDIR"/.zshrc && \
rm -rf ./yazi-prompt

Then open a new shell or run source "$ZDOTDIR"/.zshrc.

Powerlevel10k

If using powerlevel10k, copy and paste this into a terminal:

git clone https://github.com/Sonico98/yazi-prompt.sh ./yazi-prompt && \
chmod +x ./yazi-prompt/zsh/p10k/yazi_p10k.zsh && \
cp ./yazi-prompt/zsh/p10k/yazi_p10k.zsh "$ZDOTDIR"/.yazi_p10k.zsh && \
sed 's/  # If p10k is already loaded, reload configuration./  source "$ZDOTDIR"\/.yazi_p10k.zsh×  # If p10k is already loaded, reload configuration./' ~/.p10k.zsh | tr '×' '\n' >| ~/.p10k.zsh.tmp && yes | mv ~/.p10k.zsh{.tmp,} && \
rm -rf ./yazi-prompt

Then add yazi to POWERLEVEL9K_LEFT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS or POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS, near the top of ~/.p10k.zsh, and open a new shell. You can modify the color by editing $ZDOTDIR/.yazi_p10k.zsh

Fish

Default prompt

It's a bit trickier to apply a general solution to fish. If someone knows a better way of doing this, please open a Pull Request.

Open a fish shell and execute funced fish_prompt. This will open up your text editor. Add the following near the end of the file, inside the fish_prompt function, before any echo or printf calls:

if test -n "$YAZI_LEVEL"
    set suffix "  Yazi terminal $suffix"
end

Make sure $suffix is present in the echo or printf line, save the file and exit your editor. Fish should ask you if you want to save the file, confirm. In case it doesn't, execute funcsave fish_prompt.

As an example, this is how the end of the file looks for the default fish prompt:

    [...]
    set -l prompt_status (__fish_print_pipestatus "[" "]" "|" "$status_color" "$statusb_color" $last_pipestatus)
    if test -n "$YAZI_LEVEL"
	set suffix "  Yazi terminal $suffix"
    end

    echo -n -s (prompt_login)' ' (set_color $color_cwd) (prompt_pwd) $normal (fish_vcs_prompt) $normal " "$prompt_status $suffix " "
end

Tide

If you use fish with tide here is a way to end up with a nice prompt:

• Copy and paste the following into a terminal:

git clone https://github.com/Sonico98/yazi-prompt.sh ./yazi-prompt && \
chmod +x ./yazi-prompt/fish/tide/_tide_item_yazi.fish && \
mkdir -p ~/.config/fish/functions/ && \
cp ./yazi-prompt/fish/tide/_tide_item_yazi.fish  ~/.config/fish/functions/_tide_item_yazi.fish && \
rm -rf ./yazi-prompt

• Run the following commands to add color to the prompt: NOTE: You can pick whatever colors you are interested in

set --universal tide_yazi_bg_color brblack
set --universal tide_yazi_color black

• Add yazi-prompt to the tide_left_prompt: NOTE: Adjust it to your tide_left_prompt

set --universal tide_left_prompt_items os yazi context pwd git newline character

• Reload: tide reload

Starship

Add a custom module to your `starship.toml`.

[custom.yazi]
description = "Indicate the shell was launched by `yazi`"
symbol = " "
when = """ test -n "$YAZI_LEVEL" """

Include ${custom.yazi} in your format.

format = """
$hostname\
$shell\
${custom.yazi}\
$username\
$sudo\
$character\
"""

Screenshots

This is what you can expect to see by following the instructions above:

Bash

Default prompt

Zsh

Default prompt

Powerlevel10k

Fish

Default prompt

Tide

Starship

Example