powerline-go

A Powerline style prompt for your shell

A Powerline like prompt for Bash, ZSH and Fish. Based on Powerline-Shell by @banga. Ported to golang by @justjanne.

• Shows some important details about the git/hg branch (see below)
• Changes color if the last command exited with a failure code
• If you're too deep into a directory tree, shortens the displayed path with an ellipsis
• Shows the current Python virtualenv environment
• It's easy to customize and extend. See below for details.

Table of Contents

• Version Control
• Installation
  • Precompiled Binaries
  • Other Platforms
  • Bash
  • ZSH
  • Fish
• Customization
• License

Version Control

All of the version control systems supported by powerline shell give you a quick look into the state of your repo:

• The current branch is displayed and changes background color when the branch is dirty.
• When the local branch differs from the remote, the difference in number of commits is shown along with ⇡ or ⇣ indicating whether a git push or pull is pending

In addition, git has a few extra symbols:

• ✎ -- a file has been modified, but not staged for commit
• ✔ -- a file is staged for commit
• ✼ -- a file has conflicts
• + -- untracked files are present

Each of these will have a number next to it if more than one file matches.

Installation

powerline-go uses ANSI color codes, these should nowadays work everywhere, but you may have to set your $TERM to xterm-256color for it to work.

If you want to use the "patched" mode (which is the default, and provides improved UI), you'll need to install a powerline font, either as fallback, or by patching the font you use for your terminal: see powerline-fonts.
Alternatively you can use "compatible" or "flat" mode.

Precompiled Binaries

I provide precompiled binaries for x64 Linux and macOS in the releases tab

Other Platforms

• Set your GOPATH (otherwise the package will be installed in $HOME/go/bin/)

• Download and install the package

go get github.com/justjanne/powerline-go

• Move it to a convenient place (for example, ~/.powerline/powerline-go)

Bash

Add the following to your .bashrc (or .profile on Mac):

function _update_ps1() {
    PS1="$(~/.powerline/powerline-go -error $?)"
}

if [ "$TERM" != "linux" ]; then
    PROMPT_COMMAND="_update_ps1; $PROMPT_COMMAND"
fi

ZSH

Add the following to your .zshrc:

function powerline_precmd() {
    PS1="$(~/.powerline/powerline-go -error $? -shell zsh)"
}

function install_powerline_precmd() {
  for s in "${precmd_functions[@]}"; do
    if [ "$s" = "powerline_precmd" ]; then
      return
    fi
  done
  precmd_functions+=(powerline_precmd)
}

if [ "$TERM" != "linux" ]; then
    install_powerline_precmd
fi

Fish

Redefine fish_prompt in ~/.config/fish/config.fish:

function fish_prompt
    ~/.powerline/powerline-go -error $status -shell bare
end

Customization

There are a few optional arguments which can be seen by running powerline-go -help. These can be used by changing the command you have set in your shell’s init file.

Usage of powerline-go:
  -colorize-hostname
        Colorize the hostname based on a hash of itself
  -cwd-max-depth int
        Maximum number of directories to show in path
        (default 5)
  -cwd-max-dir-size int
        Maximum number of letters displayed for each directory in the path
        (default -1)
  -cwd-mode string
        How to display the current directory
        (default "fancy")
  -east-asian-width
        Use East Asian Ambiguous Widths
  -error int
        Exit code of previously executed command
  -max-width int
        Maximum width of the shell that the prompt may use, in percent. Setting this to 0 disables the shrinking subsystem.
        (default 50)
  -mode string
        The characters used to make separators between segments.
        (valid choices: patched, compatible, flat)
        (default "patched")
  -modules string
        The list of modules to load. Separate with ','
        (valid choices: cwd, docker, exit, git, hg, host, jobs, perms, root, ssh, time, user, venv)
        (default "venv,user,host,ssh,cwd,perms,git,hg,jobs,exit,root")
  -newline
        Show the prompt on a new line
  -priority string
        Segments sorted by priority, if not enough space exists, the least priorized segments are removed first. Separate with ','
        (valid choices: cwd, docker, exit, git-branch, git-status, hg, host, jobs, perms, root, ssh, time, user, venv)
        (default "root,cwd,user,host,ssh,perms,git-branch,git-status,hg,jobs,exit")
  -shell string
        Set this to your shell type
        (valid choices: bare, bash, zsh)
        (default "bash")
  -theme string
        Set this to the theme you want to use
        (valid choices: default)
        (default "default")

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.