Promptastic: fantastic prompt for Bash

Promptastic is a flavored prompt for Bash which provides info about the running system and environment in a fancy colored output. It works under Mac OS X and Linux.

See INFO.md for more info and screenshots.

This project is heavily inspired by Powerline and Powerline-shell which I have been using for a long time and realized that the former is complicated to install, slightly bloated and more suitable for Vi users, while the latter is unmaintained and a bit buggy.

Promptastic has a project page in my website.

Features

• shows the name of the logged user, the host name, the current directory path and the time;
• provides a feedback if the current directory is read-only or is not a valid path;
• warns if the last command exited with a failure code;
• displays the number of active jobs;
• reveals the name of the active Python virtualenv environment;
• presents details about the current Git branch and the status of the staging area and commit;
• adds a special label in case of SSH connection;
• any feature can be enabled/disabled via a config file;
• colored output: there are a bunch of themes to choose from and new themes can be easily created;
• simple and automatic installation procedure;
• written in Python.

More details in INFO.md.

Installation

See INSTALL.md.