A prompt theme engine for any shell

What started as the offspring of oh-my-posh for PowerShell resulted in a cross platform, highly customizable and extensible prompt theme engine. After 4 years of working on oh-my-posh, a modern and more efficient tool was needed to suit my personal needs.

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Features

• Git status indications
• Failed command indication
• Admin indication
• Current session indications
• Configurable

Table of Contents**

• Installation
  • PowerShell
  • Precompiled Binaries
    • ZSH
    • Bash
    • Fish
    • Nix
• Configuration
• Roadmap
• Thanks

Installation

go-my-posh uses ANSI color codes under the hood, these should work everywhere, but you may have to set your $TERM to xterm-256color for it to work.

For maximum enjoyment, make sure to install a powerline enabled font. The fonts I use are patched by [Nerd Fonts][nerdfonts], which offers a maximum of icons you can use to configure your prompt.

Powershell

A PowerShell module is available for your enjoyment. Install and use it with the following commands.

Install-Module -Name go-my-posh -Repository PSGallery
Import-Module go-my-posh
Set-PoshPrompt paradox

The Set-PoshPrompt function has autocompletion to assist in correctly typing the correct theme. It accepts either one of the pre-configured themes, or a path to a theme of your own.

To see available themes, make use of the Get-PoshThemes function. This prints out all themes based on your current location/environment.

Precompiled Binaries

You can find precompiled binaries for all major OS's underneath the releases tab. Installation instruction for the different shells below assumes <go-my-posh> points to the go-my-posh binary and you've downloaded the jandedobbeleer theme to your $HOME directory.

On UNIX systems, make sure the binary is executable before using it.

chmod +x gmp_executable

Bash

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

function _update_ps1() {
    PS1="$(<go-my-posh> -config ~/jandedobbeleer.json -error $?)"
}

if [ "$TERM" != "linux" ] && [ -f <go-my-posh> ]; then
    PROMPT_COMMAND="_update_ps1; $PROMPT_COMMAND"
fi

ZSH

Add the following to your .zshrc:

function powerline_precmd() {
    PS1="$(<go-my-posh> -config ~/jandedobbeleer.json --error $?)"
}

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
    eval <go-my-posh> -config ~/jandedobbeleer.json -error $status
end

Nix

When using nix-shell --pure, go-my-posh will not be accessible, and your prompt will not appear.

As a workaround you can add this snippet to your .bashrc, which should re-enable the prompt in most cases:

# Workaround for nix-shell --pure
if [ "$IN_NIX_SHELL" == "pure" ]; then
    if [ -x <go-my-posh> ]; then
        alias powerline-go="<go-my-posh> -config ~/jandedobbeleer.json"
    fi
fi

Configuration

As the documentation for all the different segments is still lacking, have a look at the available themes for reference.

Every segment has its own properties you can set/override. Have a look at the code for any you would want to tweak, available options are listed as the Property constant with their respective JSON notation for use in a segment's properties section. Additionally, a few general properties are available cross segments which can be found in properties.go.

Roadmap

• CI
• Github Releases
• Create documentation for manual installation
• Create documentation on the different segments
• Create easy installation packages
  • Powershell
  • Brew
  • Chocolatey

Thanks

• Chris Benti for providing the first influence to start oh-my-posh
• Keith Dahlby for creating posh-git and making life more enjoyable
• Robby Russel for creating oh-my-zsh, without him this would probably not be here
• Janne Mareike Koschinski for providing information on how to get certain information using Go (and the amazing README)