A Guide to Customizing the Zsh Shell Prompt
The goal of this article is to teach you just enough about the shell prompt to make some helpful customizations. What is the shell prompt? The prompt is the bit of text that shows up in our shells to indicate that we can interact with them. The prom...
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Very useful, thanks. I just bought a new mac and it defaults to zsh, so figured I might as well as make the leap from Bash to Zsh.
Only comment I'd make is you need to include:
setopt prompt_substelse the
$vcs_info_msg_0_won't get expanded in the prompt. With your help and a little more searching I ended up with:autoload -Uz vcs_info setopt prompt_subst precmd () { vcs_info } zstyle ':vcs_info:*' check-for-changes true zstyle ':vcs_info:*' unstagedstr '%F{red}*%f' zstyle ':vcs_info:*' stagedstr '%F{green}*%f' zstyle ':vcs_info:*' formats ' (%F{blue}%b%u%c%f)' PS1='[ %B%n%b@%B%m%b:%F{green}%/%f$vcs_info_msg_0_ ] $ '