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Screenshots of every prompt theme in the oh-my-zsh framework

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You may now use 'j' and 'k' on your keyboard device to flip through the themes. There is also now a gallery link. The theme I'm using is Tomorrow Night, from https://github.com/chriskempson/tomorrow-theme. Enjoy.

'j' and 'k' is fine, and quickly added. It just breaks if your using vimium browser plugin. I know it's a small thing, but just wanted to say :)

It's not really "broken", Vimium is just capturing the input. Press 'i' to switch to input mode and the keys behave as expected.

Am I the only one who likes a more minimalistic prompt?

I've used a simple $ with color for su/root and now I have the two liner:

  user@hostname:<path>
  $ ls

I like the user@hostname as I often ssh to different machines and the path is nice to have sometimes but I don't want the clutter.

Having the whole git info in the path would annoy me, it feels like clutter just because you can?

Am I alone with this?

No you're not. I have the same prompt but on one line for extra minimalism. There's just this subset of people who enjoy tinkering with the looks of things. I've never considered that a very productive thing to do.

Is there a simple way to browse all? Am I missing something here otherwise I'd need to know the name of the theme and knowing that I'd guess I'd already know what it looked like?

I agree, a nice list to flick through would be good.

I came here to say the same thing.

Me too. Useless without a list.

Just tapping a letter (so 'a', 'b' or whatever) automatically completes matching themes from the list of what's available, which kind of helps if all you wanted to do was browse. But yeah, it'd be nicer if you could just view the lot.

Well the official gallery is here: https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/wiki/Themes

Your wish is my command. Now with a list!

A 'gallery' would be much more useful, showing the same screenshot(s) in multiple themes, rather than having to look at each one individually.

I recommend using Prezto[1][2] or not using a framework at all. Prezto is an almost complete rewrite of OMZ that is simpler, completely modular and has a huge amount of bugs fixed. Not using a framework avoids bloat and unexpected settings and can be quite pleasant using tools like [3]. [1]https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/issues/377 [2]https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto [3]https://github.com/ingydotnet/...

Looks like the HN linkifier can't handle the dot dot dot in your last link. For anyone wondering why the link is broken, the third dot needs to be a part of the link.

    https://github.com/ingydotnet/...

Cool, Prezto looks great, switched today.

Note that the Prezto haskell module currently breaks man/manpath

it has been fixed, never mind

I've been using https://github.com/dotphiles/dotzsh. Not sure what the differences are.

Can anyone point to vanilla (no framework) zsh configs? I'd like to drop dotzsh eventually. I don't like the Janus-philosophy when it comes to my tools.

I had a pretty comprehensive prompt (bash) not too long ago (lots of elements, all angry fruit salad), but went back to something much simpler in recent months (directory trunk, sometimes even just the good ol' "%"). Mostly due to creating lots of short-lived, single-purpose sessions, where I'm less likely to get lost.

One of the main reasons why I'm not switching over to zsh, and would probably see ksh93 or rc as more likely candidates - scripting features seem more interesting than spurious completion and extended globbing.

Looks like "awesomepanda" is a broken them. It complains about missing 'svn_prompt_info' after every command.

Also, sagan@galaxy for the user@host is cute too.

Are risto and bira broken or do they mean to display the branch name like '<master)>' instead of '<master>'? It looks especially odd since in both themes the ')>' is a different color than the '<master'.

What color scheme do you have in your terminal?

And I think people are looking for a way to use arrow keys or the like to look around, not just a list. :)

A lot of them show Ruby version - what is the point of that? Is it often changed and you must know about it while you are in terminal?

You can switch rubies rather seamlessly with rvm. Not a Ruby dev (yet) but I assume showing you the version at all times will hopefully stop you from wasting time debugging a problem with the wrong interpreter.

Looks like prompt abuse to me. Too much (repeating) information you can't see what you're typing.

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