zunder-prompt

Simple and fast zsh prompt based on gitstatus.

Important

gitstatus officially went on life support on June 6, 2024, although it is working properly as of today and will probably do so for an almost indefinite period of time.

Why? 🤔

I found myself oscillating between Starship and Powerlevel10k for my preferred zsh prompt. Starship is very customizable and attractive by default, but it has too many features that I don't use and that makes it slower than I would like. Powerlevel10k on the other hand is extremely fast but the configuration file is extremely complex.

My goal then was to create a prompt with the basic functionality needed. After mulling this over, I came to the conclusion that simply seeing if the previous command had failed and the information from the git repository I was in was enough.

I also decided to dispense with too many advanced customization options, as that would complicate the code and would not be necessary if it was already pretty enough by default.

Zunder-prompt is inspired by Starship for its look and feel and uses gitstatus to display git information. Normally the latter should slow down the prompt quite a bit, however, this project is the same one that Powerlevel10k uses for it and is extremely optimized, so the prompt has no lag at all and works instantly.

Installation ⚙️

Zinit (recomended)

zinit light-mode depth"1" for \
  romkatv/gitstatus \
  warbacon/zunder-prompt

Zgenom

if ! zgenom saved; then
  # ...
  zgenom load romkatv/gitstatus
  zgenom load warbacon/zunder-prompt
  # ...
fi

Zplug

zplug "romkatv/gitstatus", depth:1
zplug "warbacon/zunder-prompt", on:"romkatv/gitstatus", depth=1

Customization 🎨

As zunder-prompt is built with simplicity and speed in mind, there isn't too much customization available. However, you can change the prompt's character symbol.

ZUNDER_PROMPT_CHAR="➜"              # default value: "❯"

Thanks to

• romkatv for gitsatus.
• Starship for inspiration.