features-overview.md

Overview

Fully customizable (colors, symbols and features):

• Excellent prompt character ❯ 🛠:

  • Change ❯ to red when previous command has failed 🛠 ;
  • Start prompt with current working directory 🏴 ;
  • Compact-mode (single-line prompt) 🏴 ;

• Check for new release on start 🏴🐌 ;

• Display username and hostname when in an SSH session 🛠 ;

• Display command duration when longer than 5 seconds 🛠 ;

• Display Python virtualenv when activated 🏴🛠 ;

• Display AWS profile when set 🏴🛠 ;

• Display VI mode and custom symbol for non-insert mode 🏴🛠 ;

• Display kubernetes context and namespace 🏴🛠 ;

• Detect when running in a container (e.g. docker, podman, LXC/LXD) 🏴🛠

• Indicate if a nix develop shell is activated 🏴🛠.

• Show system time 🏴 ;

• Show number of running jobs 🏴 ;

• Prefix when root 🏴🛠 ;

• Display git branch name 🏴🛠 ;

  • Display * when git repository is dirty ;
  • Display ≡ when git repository is stashed ;
  • Display ⇡ when branch is ahead (commits to push) ;
  • Display ⇣ when branch is behind (commits to pull) ;
  • Async update when configured with fish-async-prompt ;

• Update terminal title with current folder and command 🛠 ;

• Shorten or truncate current folder component 🏴🛠 ;

• and more…

🏴 means it's controlled by a feature flag, 🛠 mean it's configurable.