statusline

A blazingly-fast successor to purplesyringa's shell, rewritten in Rust.

Requirements

• Linux-compatible OS. Other OSes were not tested, but it will probably fail to run
• Bash, for the shell
• Git, for repo information
• Cargo, for installing and updating

Installation

```

!/bin/bash

cargo install statusline echo 'export PS1_MODE=...' >> ~/.bashrc # for 'text' and 'minimal' echo 'eval "$(statusline --env)"' >> ~/.bashrc . ~/.bashrc ```

Don't forget to check PATH and update from time to time.

Features

• Colorized username and hostname to prevent confusion if this statusline is installed on more than one device --- especially if connecting over SSH. Red color is reserved for root user
• Git status display which immediately display repo's "persistent" info, and almost immediately the status. In addition, part of the working directory path inside the most nested git repo is highlighted
• Chassis icons to display the type of the host device, which are acquired as fast as systemd does
• Build tools display to inform which commands can be executed to "make" the project in working directory. Makefile, ./configure, CMake, purplesyringa's ./jr, qbs, qmake and cargo are supported
• Simplified homes to make path more informative. Current user's home becomes ~, others' become ~username. Some paths are ignored to not make any confusion
• ...and others like "readonly" display, exit code visualization, jobs count and prompt time

How is this different from purplesyringa's shell?

• Small. It relies on a small amount of external libraries --- compared to a great lot of dependencies in "shell". Executable size is lesser than a megabyte with libc as its only dependency
• Fast, even on slow devices. I remember waiting more than 5 seconds before the prompt appeared with "shell". I have patched it to show at least something useful before "heavy" data arrives. But I was surprised that in less than a quarter of second I've got almost the same info with this
• Maintained. Only two people used purplesyringa's shell: me and her. After my disappointment with "shell"'s speed, I've started working on this project and she abandoned her one in favor of this one
• Lesser bugs. "kill: no process found", "why does pressing make newer prompts broken", and some others --- are not present here by design
• More icons. Almost every icon was changed to more appropriate and clean one
• Nicer git status. Proper commit abbreviation, handling of "detached head", icons even here... I just had a sleepless night that day