rainbow-zsh-prompt

rainbow-zsh-prompt makes your zsh prompt rainbow by using dosentmatter/lolcat.

If you are looking for a rainbow prompt for bash, check out dosentmatter/rainbow-bash-prompt

rainbow-zsh-prompt is a zsh port of dosentmatter/rainbow-bash-prompt.

This demo is from rainbow-bash-prompt, but they function pretty much the same.

Installation

Tested on macOS Sierra (Terminal and iTerm2)

1. Install C implementation of dosentmatter/lolcat for speed.
   • That is a fork of jaseg/lolcat with a minor change to make the colors pseudo random.
   • Put the binary in your $PATH and name it lolcat-c
2. copy .zsh_prompt to your $HOME directory
3. Add this to your .zshrc:

if [[ -f ~/.zsh_prompt ]]; then
  . ~/.zsh_prompt
fi

Use

• You can turn on and off debugging by setting PS1_DEBUG to 'true' or 'false'. Debugging is used to show the non-printing characters and highlight them.
• You can change the command used to colorize PS1 by setting PS1_COLORIZE_COMMAND to a name of a function.
  • Currently, it is set to '__ps1_lolcat' which uses lolcat-c for speed.
• You can change the command used to format the debug output by setting PS1_DEBUG_COMMAND to a name of a function.
  • Currently, it is set to __ps1_debug which displays non-printing characters and colors them.