mshp

A minimal and fast shell prompt written in Rust.

• Fast: 🚀
• Universal: Works on any shell, on any operating system
• Easy-to-hack: Very easy to add a feature or change a behaviour due to the minimal codebase

Installation

Building from source

1. Install and setup Rust
2. Run cargo install mshp

Pre-compiled binary

1. Download a binary from the releases page
2. Move the binary to your PATH

Usage

Bash, Dash, Ksh, etc.

On most POSIX compatible shells you can add the following line to your init file (e.g. .bashrc):

sh PS1="$(mshp)"

Zsh

Add the following to your .zshrc file:

zsh precmd() { PS1="$(mshp)" }

Ion

Add the following to your .config/ion/initrc file:

ion fn PROMPT echo -n "$(mshp)" end

Configuration

mshp can be configured via environment variables.

Color strings

Variables ending with _COLOR take a string as value that can be one of the following:

• default or empty (sets the color to the default foreground color defined by the terminal)
• A written out ANSII color (black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white)
• A ANSII number (e.g. 1 for red)
• A hex color beginning with # (e.g. #00F or #0000FF for blue)

Available settings

The following environment variables are available:

Note: The values represent the default values that are used if the environment variable is not set

```sh

Sets the foreground color used to display the current working directory.

MSHPCWDCOLOR="blue"

Sets the icon that is displayed next to the git branch name.

MSHPGITBRANCH_ICON=""

Sets the foreground color used to displaye the git branch name and the icon.

MSHPGITBRANCH_COLOR="cyan"

Disables the git branch name and icon.

The value 1 will activate this setting.

MSHPGITBRANCH_DISABLE=0

Sets the icon that is used to indicate uncommited and staged changes in the git repo.

MSHPGITSTAGED_ICON="+"

Sets the icon that is used to indicate uncommited and unstaged changes in the git repo.

MSHPGITUNSTAGED_ICON="!"

Sets the icon that is used to indicate untracked files in the git repo.

MSHPGITUNTRACKED_ICON="?"

Sets the icon that is used to indicate that your local branch is ahead of the upstream branch.

MSHPGITAHEAD_ICON="↥"

Sets the icon that is used to indicate that your local branch is behind the upstream branch.

MSHPGITBEHIND_ICON="↧"

Sets the colors for the above mentioned icons.

MSHPGITSTATUS_COLOR="cyan"

Disables the above mentioned icons.

#

The value 1 will activate this setting.

MSHPGITSTATUS_DISABLE=0

Sets the icon that is displayed at the end of the prompt to indicate that the currnet user is not the root user.

MSHPUSERINDICATOR="$"

Sets the color for the user indicator icon.

MSHPROOTINDICATOR_COLOR="green"

Sets the icon that is displayed at the end of the prompt to indicate that the currnet user is the root user.

MSHPROOTINDICATOR="#"

Sets the color for the root indicator icon.

MSHPROOTINDICATOR_COLOR="green" ```

License

Licensed under either of [Apache License, Version 2.0] or [MIT License] at your option.

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in this crate by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.