# lean prompt (for zsh)


After having used [prompt pure](https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure) for about
a year, I felt that a two-line prompt was not for me. Also not utilizing the
right side of the terminal seemed a missed opportunity. Still there is much to
like: the elapsed time of a process, the coloring of the prompt if the exit code
of the process isn't 0, git integration and the stay out of my way. So I took
"pure", mixed in my ideas of what a prompt should look like and came up with
"lean" - a 1 line prompt that stays out of your face.

So lean is an evolution (i.e. complete rewrite) of pure, with the following changes:

* Defaults to a very sparse setup, only showing information you need at the moment.
* Never displays your username (assuming you know who you are).
* When tmux is active it shows a yellow 't' (I disabled the tmux bar, so this is some
    visual indication that tmux is active).
* Show remote host if logged in through SSH.
* All in one line, most stuff in the right prompt, leaving the left prompt nice and clean.
* Shows background jobs (in the left prompt).
* Show (dirty) git repos.
* Shortens path if needed (longer then 70% of your screen).

When lean starts, only 2 characters show on the screen '%' on the left and '~'
on the right. All other info is omitted (like the user and system you are on),
and shown only when needed.

The code can be found on [github.com/miekg/lean](https://github.com/miekg/lean).

[Screencast](https://asciinema.org/a/d1b5wccq23kglwwhaymoi8z5i).
*Note*: for some reason the space between '%' and the start of the command line
disappeared there.