diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3b366153..9b370096 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ set -g theme_show_exit_status yes
 set -g default_user your_normal_user
 set -g theme_color_scheme dark
 set -g fish_prompt_pwd_dir_length 0
+set -g theme_prompt_pwd_dir_length 0
 set -g theme_project_dir_length 1
 set -g theme_newline_cursor yes
 ```
@@ -115,6 +116,7 @@ set -g theme_newline_cursor yes
 - `theme_show_exit_status`. Set this option to yes to have the prompt show the last exit code if it was non_zero instead of just the exclamation mark.
 - `theme_git_worktree_support`. If you do any git worktree shenanigans, setting this to `yes` will fix incorrect project-relative path display. If you don't do any git worktree shenanigans, leave it disabled. It's faster this way :)
 - `fish_prompt_pwd_dir_length`. bobthefish respects the Fish `$fish_prompt_pwd_dir_length` setting to abbreviate the prompt path. Set to `0` to show the full path, `1` (default) to show only the first character of each parent directory name, or any other number to show up to that many characters.
+- `theme_prompt_pwd_dir_length`. Overwrites the fish_prompt_pwd_dir_length variable supports one extra setting `-1` which uses the basename of the pwd in the prompt
 - `theme_project_dir_length`. The same as `$fish_prompt_pwd_dir_length`, but for the path relative to the current project root. Defaults to `0`; set to any other number to show an abbreviated path.
 - `theme_newline_cursor`. Use `yes` to have cursor start on a new line. By default the prompt is only one line. When working with long directories it may be preferrend to have cursor on the next line. Setting this to `clean` instead of `yes` suppresses the caret on the new line.
 
diff --git a/fish_prompt.fish b/fish_prompt.fish
index 98301f34..0b6e20a7 100644
--- a/fish_prompt.fish
+++ b/fish_prompt.fish
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #     set -g default_user your_normal_user
 #     set -g theme_color_scheme dark
 #     set -g fish_prompt_pwd_dir_length 0
+#     set -g theme_prompt_pwd_dir_length -1
 #     set -g theme_project_dir_length 1
 #     set -g theme_newline_cursor yes
 
@@ -74,8 +75,13 @@ function __bobthefish_hg_branch -S -d 'Get the current hg branch'
 end
 
 function __bobthefish_pretty_parent -S -a current_dir -d 'Print a parent directory, shortened to fit the prompt'
-  set -q fish_prompt_pwd_dir_length
-    or set -l fish_prompt_pwd_dir_length 1
+  if not set -q theme_prompt_pwd_dir_length
+      if set -q fish_prompt_pwd_dir_length
+          set theme_prompt_pwd_dir_length "$fish_prompt_pwd_dir_length"
+      else
+          set theme_prompt_pwd_dir_length 1
+      end
+  end
 
   # Replace $HOME with ~
   set -l real_home ~
@@ -87,12 +93,14 @@ function __bobthefish_pretty_parent -S -a current_dir -d 'Print a parent directo
     return
   end
 
-  if [ $fish_prompt_pwd_dir_length -eq 0 ]
+  if [ $theme_prompt_pwd_dir_length -eq 0 ]
     echo -n "$parent_dir/"
     return
+  else if [ $theme_prompt_pwd_dir_length -eq -1 ]
+    echo -n (__bobthefish_basename "$parent_dir/")
+    return
   end
-
-  string replace -ar '(\.?[^/]{'"$fish_prompt_pwd_dir_length"'})[^/]*/' '$1/' "$parent_dir/"
+  string replace -ar '(\.?[^/]{'"$theme_prompt_pwd_dir_length"'})[^/]*/' '$1/' "$parent_dir/"
 end
 
 function __bobthefish_ignore_vcs_dir -d 'Check whether the current directory should be ignored as a VCS segment'