Pure

Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt

Overview

Most prompts are cluttered, ugly and slow. I wanted something visually pleasing that stayed out of my way.

Why?

• Comes with the perfect prompt character. Author went through the whole Unicode range to find it.
• Shows git branch and whether it's dirty (with a *).
• Indicates when you have unpushed/unpulled git commits with up/down arrows. (Check is done asynchronously!)
• Prompt character turns red if the last command didn't exit with 0.
• Command execution time will be displayed if it exceeds the set threshold.
• Username and host only displayed when in an SSH session.
• Shows the current path in the title and the current folder & command when a process is running.
• Support VI-mode indication by reverse prompt symbol (Zsh 5.3+).
• Makes an excellent starting point for your own custom prompt.

Install

Can be installed with npm or manually. Requires Git 2.0.0+ and ZSH 5.2+. Older versions of ZSH are known to work, but they are not recommended.

npm

$ npm install --global pure-prompt

That's it. Skip to Getting started.

Manually

1. Either…

• Clone this repo
• add it as a submodule, or
• just download pure.zsh and async.zsh

2. Symlink pure.zsh to somewhere in $fpath with the name prompt_pure_setup.

3. Symlink async.zsh in $fpath with the name async.

Example

$ ln -s "$PWD/pure.zsh" /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/prompt_pure_setup
$ ln -s "$PWD/async.zsh" /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/async

Run echo $fpath to see possible locations.

For a user-specific installation (which would not require escalated privileges), simply add a directory to $fpath for that user:

# .zshenv or .zshrc
fpath=( "$HOME/.zfunctions" $fpath )

Then install the theme there:

$ ln -s "$PWD/pure.zsh" "$HOME/.zfunctions/prompt_pure_setup"
$ ln -s "$PWD/async.zsh" "$HOME/.zfunctions/async"

Getting started

Initialize the prompt system (if not so already) and choose pure:

# .zshrc
autoload -U promptinit; promptinit
prompt pure

Options

Option	Description	Default value
PURE_CMD_MAX_EXEC_TIME	The max execution time of a process before its run time is shown when it exits.	5 seconds
PURE_GIT_PULL=0	Prevents Pure from checking whether the current Git remote has been updated.
PURE_GIT_UNTRACKED_DIRTY=0	Do not include untracked files in dirtiness check. Mostly useful on large repos (like WebKit).
PURE_GIT_DELAY_DIRTY_CHECK	Time in seconds to delay git dirty checking when git status takes > 5 seconds.	1800 seconds
PURE_PROMPT_SYMBOL	Defines the prompt symbol.	❯
PURE_PROMPT_VICMD_SYMBOL	Defines the prompt symbol used when the vicmd keymap is active (VI-mode).	❮
PURE_GIT_DOWN_ARROW	Defines the git down arrow symbol.	⇣
PURE_GIT_UP_ARROW	Defines the git up arrow symbol.	⇡

Example

# .zshrc

autoload -U promptinit; promptinit

# optionally define some options
PURE_CMD_MAX_EXEC_TIME=10

prompt pure

Tips

In the screenshot you see Pure running in Hyper with the hyper-snazzy theme and Menlo font.

The Tomorrow Night Eighties theme with the Droid Sans Mono font (15pt) is also a nice combination.
Just make sure you have anti-aliasing enabled in your terminal.

To have commands colorized as seen in the screenshot, install zsh-syntax-highlighting.

Integration

oh-my-zsh

1. Set ZSH_THEME="" in your .zshrc to disable oh-my-zsh themes.
2. Follow the Pure Install instructions.
3. Do not enable the following (incompatible) plugins: vi-mode, virtualenv.

NOTE: oh-my-zsh overrides the prompt so Pure must be activated after source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh.

prezto

Pure is bundled with Prezto. No need to install it.

Add prompt pure to your ~/.zpreztorc.

zim

Pure is bundled with Zim. No need to install it.

Set zprompt_theme='pure' in ~/.zimrc.

antigen

Update your .zshrc file with the following two lines (order matters). Do not use the antigen theme function.

antigen bundle mafredri/zsh-async
antigen bundle sindresorhus/pure

antibody

Update your .zshrc file with the following two lines (order matters):

antibody bundle mafredri/zsh-async
antibody bundle sindresorhus/pure

zplug

Update your .zshrc file with the following two lines:

zplug mafredri/zsh-async, from:github
zplug sindresorhus/pure, use:pure.zsh, from:github, as:theme

zplugin

Update your .zshrc file with the following two lines (order matters):

zplugin ice pick"async.zsh" src"pure.zsh"
zplugin light sindresorhus/pure

FAQ

There are currently no FAQs.

See FAQ Archive for previous FAQs.

Ports

• ZSH
  • therealklanni/purity - More compact current working directory, important details on the main prompt line, and extra Git indicators.
  • intelfx/pure - Solarized-friendly colors, highly verbose, and fully async Git integration.
  • dfurnes/purer - Compact single-line prompt with built-in Vim-mode indicator.
  • chabou/pure-now - Fork with Now support.
  • pure10k - Configuration file for Powerlevel10k that makes it look like Pure.
• Bash
  • sapegin/dotfiles - Prompt and color theme for Terminal.app.
• Fish
  • brandonweiss/pure.fish - Pure-inspired prompt for Fish. Not intended to have feature parity.
  • rafaelrinaldi/pure - Support for bare Fish and various framework (Oh-My-Fish, Fisherman, and Wahoo).
• Rust
  • xcambar/purs - Pure-inspired prompt in Rust.
• Go
  • talal/mimir - Pure-inspired prompt in Go with Kubernetes and OpenStack cloud support. Not intended to have feature parity.
• PowerShell
  • nickcox/pure-pwsh - PowerShell/PS Core implementation of the Pure prompt.

Team

Sindre Sorhus	Mathias Fredriksson

License

MIT © Sindre Sorhus