PrettyPrompt/README.md
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# PrettyPrompt
A pretty shell prompt, written in rust
## Current Features
- **User indicator** - Symbol with different colors for root user and normal users
- **Error indicator** - Symbol with different colors to indicate if the last comment was successful
- **Git repo indicator**
- Indicates if the current directory is a repo or a regular directory
- Branches indicated by different colors
- **SSH indicator** - Symbol to indicate if the current shell is in an SSH session
- **Current directory**
- Abbreviated if the path is too long
- Replaces the user's home directory with a `~` symbol
- Show the repo's name if currently in a git repo
## Screenshot
![screenshot](https://git.candifloss.cc/candifloss/PrettyPrompt/raw/branch/main/screenshot/BashPromptExampleScreenshoot.png "Screenshot")
## Planned Features
- Right-hand side prompt
- Configuration file
- Choose only the components you need
- Change appearance
- symbols and texts
- colors
- order and position
- Etc.
- User-defined components
- Static sybols or strings
- Shell symbol
- Host name
- Etc.
- Dynamic components by running custom commands
- Time & date
- More `git` information
- System stats
- Basically, anything you like
## Current Limitations
- Not user-configurable, yet - any changes in the current stage require hard-coding.
- Exit code of the last command requires to be passed as a command-line argument.
## Usage
The binary needs to be in your `$PATH`. Place it somewhere like `/usr/bin/`, or add the appropriate path to the `$PATH` variable
The configuration depends on the shell and the configuration file location can vary according to your distro.
### `bash`
System-wide: `/etc/bash.bashrc` or User-specific: `$HOME/.bashrc`:
```bash
PS1="" // PS1 is a fixed prompt variable.
PROMPT_COMMAND="prettyprompt $?" // This updates the prompt every time.
```
### `ion`
User-specific: `$HOME/.config/ion/initrc`:
```ion
# This is currently the only way to customize the prompt according to the docs
fn PROMPT
prettyprompt $?
end
```
## Changes since the last version
- **Updated Output String Type:** Improved compatibility with other shells.
- **Revamped Indicator Symbols:** Enhanced the visual aspect of the prompt.
- **Removed Shell Symbol:** Determining the shell is practically not possible.
- **Conditional Component Inclusion:** A first step towards user-configuration expected in future versions.
- **Code Improvements:** readability and performance
- **Refactoring:** Modular structure for better readability and maintenance.
- **Modularization:** Separate modules for cleaner organization.
- **Error Handling:** Improved logic to exclude error messages from the prompt.
- **Enhanced Documentation:** Comments for better comprehension.