Aurora Prompt

A shell prompt for Bash and Zsh.

Examples

The default prompt:

# Put this line in your shell config
eval "$(aurora_prompt init zsh)"

# ... or for Bash
eval "$(aurora_prompt init bash)"

# The following prompt will be set up:
~/Dev/github/twe4ked/prompt master $

A custom prompt displaying the current working directory and a $ symbol:

# For Bash
eval "$(aurora_prompt init bash "{cwd=short} $ ")"

# The following prompt will be set up:
~/D/g/t/prompt $

A more complex example:

# For Zsh
eval "$(aurora_prompt init zsh "\
{green}{cwd style=short underline_repo=true}\
{yellow} ± {git_branch}{git_status}:{git_commit}\
{dark_grey} {git_stash}\
{dark_grey} {jobs}\
{if last_command_status}{cyan} $ \
{else}{red} $ \
{end}{reset}")"

# Produces
~/D/g/t/prompt ± master:bacd2a3 1+ $

Components

• {cwd}, {cwd style=short underline_repo=true}, {cwd style=long}, {cwd style=default}

• {env name=HOME}

  A Zsh example of using a precommand to populate an environment variable with a custom string. This can be used to put anything in your prompt.

  my_date_precmd() {
      export MY_DATE="$(date)"
  }
  
  autoload -U add-zsh-hook
  add-zsh-hook precmd my_date_precmd
  
  eval "$(aurora_prompt init zsh "{env name=MY_DATE}")"

• {git_branch}

• {git_commit}

• {git_stash}

• {git_status}

• {hostname}

• {jobs}

• {user}

Colors

Colors are also used to define groups, if all components within a color group return nothing, the entire group will be squashed. Groups are defined as everything between a color and a {reset}.

• {black}, {white}
• {grey}, {dark_grey}
• {blue}, {dark_blue}
• {green}, {dark_green}
• {red}, {dark_red}
• {cyan}, {dark_cyan}
• {magenta}, {dark_magenta}
• {yellow}, {dark_yellow}

Reset

• {reset}

Conditionals

Conditionals can be used to show and hide components and colors.

# Last command status returns "true" if the last command returned 0
{if last_command_status}{cyan}${else}{red}${end}{reset}

# Environment variables
{user}{if $SSH_CONNECTION}@{hostname}{end}

Design Goals

• Speed
• Minimal
• Simple configuration
• Default fonts

Adding a new component

Begin by adding a new variant to the Component enum in token and update the TryFrom<&str> for Component impl. From there follow the compiler errors!

Inspiration

• starship/starship