Feature request | arrow prompt ❯ color

[fazlearefin]

The arrow prompt ❯ color for normal ($? -eq 0) and not normal ($? -ne 0) is not very obvious. I suggest you use grey or green for the arrow prompt when normal ($? -eq 0).

[fazlearefin]

For this to happen, the only change required is to replace magenta with green in pure.zsh

- PROMPT='%(?.%F{magenta}.%F{red})${PURE_PROMPT_SYMBOL:-❯}%f '
+ PROMPT='%(?.%F{green}.%F{red})${PURE_PROMPT_SYMBOL:-❯}%f '

Magenta and red are not good combinations as on some color schemes it is a bit difficult to tell them apart. Green and red should be easy to spot.

[sindresorhus]

I don't want a green prompt character. That looks boring. How about we instead change the error color to yellow?

[fazlearefin]

Changing the error color to yellow is fine with me.

[mikeerickson]

@sindresorhus @fazlearefin Yes, I agree as well on yellow. That is a biggest enough difference imo

[fazlearefin]

I can make the change and raise a pull request if that helps get this change to the repo quicker.

[mafredri]

I'm not a fan to switching the color to yellow, too close to green (== OK). And it does look quite out of place.

Thoughts on #306?

[mafredri]

To demonstrate what it looks like for me:

[anton-johansson]

What about using options for the two colors in .zshrc? They can default to the same values that are currently being used.

PURE_PROMPT_NORMAL_COLOR=green
PURE_PROMPT_ERROR_COLOR=red

[mafredri]

@will-stone this is being considered, I think both me and @sindresorhus agree that we don't want new environment variables for configuring this, though. So using zstyle as proposed in #306 seems like the most likely candidate, I just haven't gotten around to it yet 😅.

This feature has been quite low-prio for me personally, so if anyone is interested to help, a proposal / PR is definitely welcomed. To start with, I think it makes sense to limit this to colorizing the prompt character only, in the future more colors customizations could be introduced, but let's see how it works first.

[fazlearefin]

I'll raise a PR if I get some time and manage to get it to work as proposed in #306 .

[alexozer]

How's this going?

[craftyguy]

I hope it's still going. It's very hard for my eyes to differentiate between the default color (magenta-ish) and the error color (red), considering the prompt character is really thin/small.

[disrupted]

@craftyguy +1 same here