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Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt

15 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 3 stories, 12 comments · first 2013-02-08 · latest 2025-07-20

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  1. …like Pretzo is the main one suggested. But there's a huge list of different offerings. Looking at https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure?tab=readme-ov-file#inte... , there's also for example zim, zplug, zinit, zi. It's be so great to have…
    comment by jauntywundrkind · 2025-07-20 · in Speeding up my ZSH shell
  2. …anywhere. You could peek at something like zprezto https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto or pure https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure for tips. Fetching git/hg/... info is always slow, so try and speed that up where you can (as to how to…
    comment by bongobingo1 · 2024-04-23 · in Carapace: A multi-shell completion library and binary
  3. …space to show where you are and git status/branch, while still allowing you to write long commands. https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure
    comment by wodenokoto · 2022-04-02 · in Useful Shell Prompt (2020)
  4. My favorite for this purpose is pure prompt: https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure I wasn’t sure about multi line at first, but really digging it now.
    comment by noahtallen · 2021-12-11 · in Mastering Bash and Terminal (2017)
  5. …in-your-face. After downloading the theme, I've added this to my `.zshrc` file: # PURE theme - see https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure fpath+=$HOME/.zsh/pure autoload -U promptinit; promptinit prompt pure Fuzzy find makes searching…
    comment by olsgaarddk · 2021-02-18 · in Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind
  6. …several seconds. For this specific problem, use a prompt that asynchronously updates git status. https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure is an example, and it contains all the primitives you need to implement your own async prompt. Otherwise…
    comment by oefrha · 2020-07-26 · in Pinebook Pro longer term usage report
  7. zsh users, good time to try out my favorite prompt, Pure: https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure Nowadays that's the only thing I run on top of zsh, which makes the shell significantly faster than with oh-my-zsh (and its kitchen sink).
    comment by bojanz · 2019-06-04 · in Use zsh as the default shell on your Mac
  8. Pure has everything I need and nothing that I don't. https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure
    comment by a_bored_husky · 2018-02-16 · in Ask HN: What's your favourite ZSH theme?
  9. It doesn't get much purer than pure - https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure
    comment by ujal · 2017-05-01 · in FuncShell – A Haskell-based alternative to awk
  10. Another example: https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure This uses zsh-async: https://github.com/mafredri/zsh-async
    comment by micampe · 2015-10-19 · in An Asynchronous Shell Prompt
  11. Awesome post! I love the Tomorrow-Night theme: Vim: http://i.imgur.com/HBaCTAu.png Zsh: https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure On Github: https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme/blob/master/v...
    comment by stockninja · 2015-06-30 · in Vim Colors
  12. …where most others were too feature rich. It's also a good base if you want to create your own. https://github.com/sindresorhus/pure
    comment by mofle · 2013-04-21 · in An adaptive prompt for Bash and Zsh