nojhan/liquidprompt
Liquidprompt
Liquidprompt is an adaptive command-line interface theme and context-aware status bar for Bash and Zsh. It functions as a shell environment indicator and tracker, displaying real-time system information, user identity, host connections, and working directory data directly within the prompt.
The project features a theme engine that allows for the modification of layout, colors, and glyphs. It integrates version control status indicators to show active branches, tags, and commit statistics, alongside indicators for active container tools, orchestrators, and language-specific virtual environments.
The system also monitors shell state and hardware or network performance metrics, providing context-sensitive alerts when specific thresholds are met. Additionally, it can synchronize the current prompt state with the terminal window title or status bar.
Features
- Contextual Shell Prompts - Generates an adaptive command-line interface theme that displays system information based on the current state.
- Prompt Themes - Implements an adaptive command-line interface theme for Bash and Zsh that displays contextual system and environment data.
- VCS State Tracking - Displays current branches, tags, and commit statistics directly from the active version control system.
- Environment Tracking - Provides visual tracking of active container tools, orchestrators, and language-specific virtual environments within the prompt.
- Environment Discovery Tools - Automatically detects active virtual environments, containers, and orchestrators by scanning the file system and process tree.
- Virtual Environment Detection - Identifies active container tools, orchestrators, and virtual environments to display the current configuration context.
- Shell Customization Frameworks - Personalizes the command line interface for Bash and Zsh to improve navigation through custom themes.
- Shell Prompt Customizers - Provides utilities for defining the layout and styling of the command-line prompt using a theme engine.
- Shell Environments - Identifies and displays active language virtual environments, container tools, and orchestrators within the terminal.
- Environment Indicators - Displays visual status indicators for container tools, orchestrators, and language-specific virtual environments.
- Terminal Workflow Optimizations - Reduces cognitive load by displaying system status, background jobs, and directory context as a persistent HUD.
- Version Control Integrations - Surfaces version control information, such as active branches and commit statistics, directly within the shell environment.
- Active Branch Tracking - Identifies the active source code management system to track and display current branches and tags.
- Shell Prompt Themes - Displays adaptive, system-relevant data such as directory context and user identity within the shell prompt.
- Terminal Theme and Plugin Customizers - Provides a theme engine to modify the layout, colors, and appearance of the shell prompt using specialized fonts.
- Theming and Layouts - Allows users to change the prompt appearance and layout using specific styles and specialized fonts.
- Environment Metadata Polling - Implements lightweight queries to fetch real-time version control and system status for the prompt.
- Git Status Indicators - Provides prompt extensions that track and display active branches, tags, and commit statistics for source control systems.
- Prompt Segment Assemblers - Assembles the final prompt string by concatenating independent data-fetching modules based on the active configuration.
- Shell Compatibility Layers - Implements core data collection and formatting logic that works consistently across both Bash and Zsh.
- Shell State Monitoring - Displays real-time information about the working directory, user identity, host connection, and background job counts.
- Terminal Status Displays - Shows context-sensitive alerts and metrics for hardware and network performance when specific thresholds are met.
- Conditional Rendering - Toggles the visibility of prompt elements based on environment markers or system performance thresholds.
- Status Bars - Provides a real-time monitoring status bar for working directories, user identity, host connections, and system performance.
- Prompt - Maps raw data to visual representations using predefined color schemes and specialized glyph fonts.
- Shell Environments - Adaptive and feature-rich prompt for Bash and Zsh.
- Terminal Customization - Adaptive prompt for Bash and Zsh.
- Terminal Prompts - Adaptive and feature-rich prompt for Bash and Zsh.
- Terminal Customization - Adaptive and feature-rich prompt for shell environments.
