A customizable and informative prompt for bash, fish, zsh, on linux distributions.
Features: easily configurable, transient prompt, git integration, command execution time, exit status, user defined modules, and more.
Installation
Configuration
Builtin modules
Creating your own modules
Update
Removal
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Download and install blaze
Requirements:git,make,g++git clone https://github.com/danieltodor/blaze.git && cd blaze && make install release=y
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Setup your shell
Make sure~/.local/binis added to PATH.- Bash
echo 'eval "$(blaze bash --init)"' >> ~/.bashrc
- Fish
Depending on your config, you should move the added line where only interactive shells will use it.echo 'blaze fish --init | source' >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish
- Zsh
echo 'eval "$(blaze zsh --init)"' >> ~/.zshrc
- Bash
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Configure
Open a new shell instance, and select a configuration with the./use_config <name>command.
For additional configuration options, check out the configuration section.
It is recommended to use a nerd font in your terminal emulator, so that the symbols are displayed correctly.
Note that some of the configs are suitable only for shells with right prompt.
Configuration files are read from these locations in order:
BLAZE_CONFIGenv variable~/.config/blaze/config.toml
# For color values you can use named values like "black" "red" "green" "yellow" "blue" "magenta" "cyan" "white". # If your terminal emulator supports the aixterm specification, you can also use these colors with the "bright_" prefix. # You can use color ids from "0" to "255". https://www.ditig.com/256-colors-cheat-sheet # If your terminal emulator has truecolor support, you can also use RGB and hexadecimal colors like "145, 255, 0" or "#3dff59". # Special values: # - "default" The background color of the (xterm compatible) terminal emulator. [global] # This will be added before and after the string in each module padding = "" [prompt] # Prompt string string = " ❯ " # Foreground color to use foreground = "" # Foreground color to use when the last command was exited with non zero code. Use only if different from foreground error_foreground = "" # Separate prompts with additional new line new_line = false # Create a separator line between prompts from this character separator = "" # Modules are displayed only for the last prompt transient = false # Start prompt on the bottom of the terminal window bottom = false [connector] # This character will be used as spacing between the left and right side modules character = " " # Foreground color to use foreground = "" # Background color to use background = "" # Text styling to use dim = false [[module]] # Name of a builtin module name = "" # Execute a user defined module execute = "" # Optional content for certain modules content = "" # Which level the module should be displayed on (required only for multilevel prompt) level = 1 # The position of the module (if omitted, modules will be displayed as they appear in config) position = 1 # Display it on left/right side. Or display it as right_prompt if the shell supports it align = "left" # Same as global one, but takes precedence over it padding = "" # Displayed inside the module, before the content (foreground used as color) inner_prefix = "" # Displayed inside the module, after the content (foreground used as color) inner_suffix = "" # Displayed as the beginning of the module (background used as color) outer_prefix = "" # Displayed as the end of the module (background used as color) outer_suffix = "" # Foreground color to use foreground = "" # Background color to use background = "" # Text styling to use bold = false dim = false italic = false underline = false [directory] # Maximum number of parent folders to display. Use 0 to disable truncation limit = 10 # Show folders from the root of the repository from_repository = true [duration] # Display module if execution time exceeds threshold threshold = 2.0 # Digits displayed after seconds precision = 1 # Display franctional part if less than this fractional_until = 10.0 [status] # Show exit status when it is 0 (success) show_zero = false [git_branch] # Show branch name even when the HEAD is in a detached state show_when_detached = false # Ignore branches that matches these regex patterns, e.g.: "^master" ignore = [] [git_commit] # Show commit hash even when the HEAD points to a branch show_when_attached = false # Commit hash length (might be longer, depending on uniqueness). Use 0 to disable trimming length = 7 [git_status] # Show the number of changes count = true # Spacing between the elements spacing = " " # Displayed when the repository is clean clean = "✓" # Displayed when the current branch is ahead of the remote branch ahead = "↑" # Displayed when the current branch is behind the remote branch behind = "↓" # Displayed when there are stashed files stashed = "$" # Displayed when there are untracked files untracked = "?" # Displayed when there are conflicted files conflicted = "=" # Displayed when there are modified files modified = "!" # Displayed when there are staged files staged = "+" # Displayed when there are renamed files renamed = "»" # Displayed when there are deleted files deleted = "✘" [date] # Date format to use format = "%x" [time] # Time format to use format = "%X"| Name | Description |
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| fixed | Can be used to display fixed text |
| separator | Can be used for additional separation between modules |
| directory | Current working directory |
| duration | Execution time of the last command (wall time) |
| status | Exit status of the last command |
| git_branch | Active branch in the repository |
| git_commit | Commit hash |
| git_status | Symbols indicating the current state of the repository |
| date | Current date (format options) |
| time | Current time (format options) |
| user | Current user |
| host | Hostname |
| shell | Currently active shell |
You can use the programming language of your choice to create a custom module.
- Create a script/binary that writes something to stdout.
# Check the PWD and/or the file/directory contents, or whatever you need. # At the end, write something to stdout. # If stdout is empty at the end, the module and its prefix/suffix content won't be displayed. # This way you can create modules that are only used in certain directories. print('something')- Create a new module entry in your config file, and tell blaze how and where it can be executed.
[[module]] execute = "python path/to/file.py" # Additional styling like background, foreground, etccd into the downloaded blaze directory and run this one-liner to update it.
git pull && make clean && make install release=yIt is advised to also update the config either via the ./use_config <name> command, or manually, as sometimes there are breaking changes.
- Delete the setup line from your shell's rc file.
cdinto the downloaded blaze directory and runmake uninstall.- Delete the
config.tomlfile if you created one.