zunder-prompt

Simple and fast zsh prompt based on gitstatus.

Why? 🤔

I found myself oscillating between Starship and Powerlevel10k for my preferred zsh prompt. Starship is very customizable and attractive by default, but it has too many features that I don't use and that makes it slower than I would like. Powerlevel10k on the other hand is extremely fast but the configuration file is extremely complex.

My goal then was to create a prompt with the basic functionality needed. After mulling this over, I came to the conclusion that simply seeing if the previous command had failed and the information from the git repository I was in was enough.

I also decided to dispense with too many advanced customization options, as that would complicate the code and would not be necessary if it was already pretty enough by default.

Zunder-prompt is inspired by Starship for its look and feel and uses gitstatus to display git information. Normally the latter should slow down the prompt quite a bit, however, this project is the same one that Powerlevel10k uses for it and is extremely optimized, so the prompt has no lag at all and works instantly.

Installation ⚙️

Zinit (recomended)

zinit light-mode depth"1" for \
  romkatv/gitstatus \
  warbacon/zunder-prompt

Zgenom

if ! zgenom saved; then
  # ...
  zgenom load romkatv/gitstatus
  zgenom load warbacon/zunder-prompt
  # ...
fi

Zplug

zplug "romkatv/gitstatus", depth:1
zplug "warbacon/zunder-prompt", on:"romkatv/gitstatus", depth=1

Customization 🎨

As zunder-prompt is built with simplicity and speed in mind, there isn't too much customization available. However, you can change the prompt's character symbol.

ZUNDER_PROMPT_CHAR="➜"              # default value: "❯"

Thanks to

• romkatv for gitsatus.
• Starship for inspiration.