# Pure

> Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt

![](screenshot.png)


## 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.
- 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](screenshot-title-cmd.png) when a process is running.
- 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 5.0.0+.

### npm

```
$ npm install --global pure-prompt
```

That's it. Skip to [Getting started](#getting-started).

### Manually

1. Either…
  - Clone this repo
  - add it as a submodule, or
  - just download `pure.zsh`

2. Symlink `pure.zsh` to somewhere in [`$fpath`](http://www.refining-linux.org/archives/46/ZSH-Gem-12-Autoloading-functions/) 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:

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

Then install the theme there:

```sh
$ 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`:

```sh
# .zshrc
autoload -U promptinit && promptinit
prompt pure
```


## Options

### `PURE_CMD_MAX_EXEC_TIME`

The max execution time of a process before its run time is shown when it exits. Defaults to `5` seconds.

### `PURE_GIT_PULL`

Set `PURE_GIT_PULL=0` to prevent Pure from checking whether the current Git remote has been updated.

### `PURE_GIT_UNTRACKED_DIRTY`

Set `PURE_GIT_UNTRACKED_DIRTY=0` to not include untracked files in dirtiness check. Only really useful on extremely huge repos like the WebKit repo.

### `PURE_GIT_DELAY_DIRTY_CHECK`

Time in seconds to delay git dirty checking for large repositories (git status takes > 2 seconds). The check is performed asynchronously, this is to save CPU. Defaults to `1800` seconds.

### `PURE_PROMPT_SYMBOL`

Defines the prompt symbol. The default value is `❯`.

### `PURE_GIT_DOWN_ARROW`

Defines the git down arrow symbol. The default value is `⇣`.

### `PURE_GIT_UP_ARROW`

Defines the git up arrow symbol. The default value is `⇡`.

## Example

```sh
# .zshrc

autoload -U promptinit && promptinit

# optionally define some options
PURE_CMD_MAX_EXEC_TIME=10

prompt pure
```


## Tips

[Tomorrow Night Eighties](https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme) theme with the [Droid Sans Mono](http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Droid+Sans+Mono) font (15pt) is a beautiful combination, as seen in the screenshot above. Just make sure you have anti-aliasing enabled in your Terminal.

To have commands colorized as seen in the screenshot install [zsh-syntax-highlighting](https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting).


## Integration

### [oh-my-zsh](https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh)

1. Remove competing theme included in oh-my-zsh `~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/pure.zsh-theme`
2. Symlink (or copy) `pure.zsh` to `~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/pure.zsh-theme`
3. Symlink (or copy) `async.zsh` to `~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/async.zsh`
4. Add `ZSH_THEME="pure"` to your `.zshrc` file.

### [prezto](https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto)

Set `zstyle ':prezto:module:prompt' theme 'pure'` in `~/.zpreztorc`.

### [antigen](https://github.com/zsh-users/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
```

## FAQ

### My preprompt is missing when I clear the screen with Ctrl+L

Pure doesn't register its custom *clear-screen* widget if it has been previously modified. If you haven't registered your own zle widget with `zle -N clear-screen custom-clear-screen` it might have been done by third-party modules. For example `zsh-syntax-highlighting` and `zsh-history-substring-search` are known to do this and they should for that reason be **the very last thing** in your `.zshrc` (as pointed out in their documentation).

To find out the culprit that is overriding your *clear-screen* widget, you can run the following command: `zle -l | grep clear-screen`.

### I am stuck in a shell loop in my terminal that ask me to authenticate. What should I do ?

[This is a known issue](https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure/issues/76).
Using `git pull` when you get the username prompt should help you to break the loop by giving you a real prompt for this. **[This has been fixed in git 2.3](https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure/commit/f43ab97e1cf4a276b7a6e33eac055ee16610be15)**

### I am seeing the error `zpty: can't open pseudo terminal: bad file descriptor`.

[This is a known issue](https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure/issues/117). `zsh/zpty` requires either legacy bsd ptys or access to `/dev/ptmx`. Here are some known solutions.

#### Gentoo

```
sudo sh -c "echo 'SANDBOX_WRITE=\"/dev/ptmx\"' > /etc/sandbox.d/10zsh"
sudo emerge -1 zsh
```

#### FreeBSD 10.1

On a default setup, running the command `kldload pty` should do the trick. If you have a custom kernel, you might need to add `device pty` to the configuration file ([example](https://github.com/nbari/freebsd/blob/58646a9c3c4aaabf6f6467ff505f27f09e29dc75/kernels/xen.kernel#L188)).

## Team

[![Sindre Sorhus](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/170270?v=3&s=100)](http://sindresorhus.com) | [![Mathias Fredriksson](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/147409?v=3&s=100)](https://github.com/mafredri)
---|---
[Sindre Sorhus](http://sindresorhus.com) | [Mathias Fredriksson](https://github.com/mafredri)


## License

MIT © [Sindre Sorhus](http://sindresorhus.com)