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pure

Pretty, minimal and fast Fish 🐟 prompt, ported from zsh.

🚀 Install

⚠️ requirements: fish ≥3.x

Fisher

fisher install pure-fish/pure

Manually

Via cURL:

# Download the installer to `/tmp`
curl git.io/pure-fish --output /tmp/pure_installer.fish --location --silent
# Source and trigger the installer
source /tmp/pure_installer.fish; and install_pure

Features

Fully customizable (colors, symbols and features):

• Excellent prompt character ❯ :
  • Change ❯ to red when previous command has failed ;
  • Start prompt with current working directory 🏴 ;
  • Compact-mode (single-line prompt) 🏴 ;
• Display current directory tail ;
• check for new release on start 🏴 ;
• Display username and hostname when in an SSH session ;
• Display command duration when longer than 5 seconds ;
• Display Python virtualenv when activated ;
• Display VI mode and custom symbol for non-insert mode 🏴 ;
• Show system time 🏴 ;
• Show number of running jobs 🏴 ;
• Prefix when root 🏴 ;
• Display git branch name 🏴 ;
  • Display * when git repository is dirty ;
  • Display ≡ when git repository is stashed ;
  • Display ⇡ when branch is ahead (commits to push) ;
  • Display ⇣ when branch is behind (commits to pull) ;
  • Async update when configured with fish-async-prompt ;
• Update terminal title with current folder and command ;
• Detect when running in a container

🏴: Enabled or disabled via a feature flag.

🖌️ Configuration

You can tweak pure behavior and color by changing universal variables either directly in the terminal or in your config.fish, e.g.:

set --universal pure_show_system_time true
set --universal pure_color_system_time pure_color_mute

Prompt Symbol

Option	Default	Description
pure_symbol_git_dirty	*	Repository is Dirty (uncommitted/untracked changes).
pure_symbol_git_stash	≡	Repository git stash status.
pure_symbol_git_unpulled_commits	⇣	Branch is behind upstream (commits to pull).
pure_symbol_git_unpushed_commits	⇡	Branch is ahead upstream (commits to push).
pure_symbol_prefix_root_prompt	#	Prefix prompt when logged in as root.
pure_symbol_prompt	❯	Prompt symbol.
pure_symbol_reverse_prompt	❮	VI non-insert mode symbol.
pure_symbol_title_bar_separator	-	Separator in terminal's windows title.

ℹ️ Need safer git symbols?

🔌 Features' Flags

Option	Default	Description
pure_begin_prompt_with_current_directory	true	true: pwd git, SSH, duration. false: SSH pwd git, duration.
pure_check_for_new_release	false	true: check repo for new release (on every shell start)
pure_enable_git	true	Show info about Git repository.
pure_enable_container_detection	true	false: Do not check if run in container (e.g. docker, podman, LXC/LXD, etc.). ⚠️ Detection is a bit tricky across OSes.
pure_enable_single_line_prompt	false	true: Compact prompt as a single line
pure_reverse_prompt_symbol_in_vimode	true	true: ❮ indicate a non-insert mode. false: indicate vi mode with [I], [N], [V].
pure_separate_prompt_on_error	false	Show last command exit code as a separate character.
pure_show_jobs	false	Show Number of running jobs
pure_show_prefix_root_prompt	false	true: shows prompt prefix when logged in as root.
pure_show_subsecond_command_duration	false	Show subsecond (ex. 1.5s) in command duration.
pure_show_system_time	false	true: shows system time before the prompt symbol (as %H:%M:%S).
pure_threshold_command_duration	5	Show command duration when above this value (seconds).

🎨 Colours

ℹ️ See set_color documentation for full possibilities.

⚠️ The absence of $ sign is expected in pure_ named colours.

Base Color	Inherited by	Default
pure_color_danger	pure_color_prompt_on_error	red
pure_color_dark		black
pure_color_info	pure_color_git_unpulled_commits pure_color_git_unpushed_commits	cyan
pure_color_light	pure_color_username_root	white
pure_color_mute	pure_color_git_branch pure_color_git_dirty pure_color_git_stash pure_color_hostname pure_color_at_sign pure_color_username_normal pure_color_virtualenv	brblack
pure_color_normal	pure_color_jobs	normal
pure_color_primary	pure_color_current_directory	blue
pure_color_success	pure_color_prompt_on_success	magenta
pure_color_warning	pure_color_command_duration	yellow

👍 Contribute

requirements: docker (isolate from your environment)

Specify the FISH_VERSION you want, and the CMD executed by the container:

make build-pure-on FISH_VERSION=3.3.1
make dev-pure-on FISH_VERSION=3.3.1 CMD="fishtape tests/*.test.fish"

👨‍💻 Maintainer

• Édouard Lopez

👏 Thanks

• @andreiborisov for the docker images ;
• @jorgebucaran for fishtape ;
• @rafaelrinaldi for starting the project ;

🏛️ License

MIT