fish_prompt - define the appearance of the command line prompt¶

Synopsis¶

function fish\_prompt...end

Description¶

By defining the fish_prompt function, the user can choose a custom prompt. The fish_prompt function is executed when the prompt is to be shown, and the output is used as a prompt.

The exit status of commands within fish_prompt will not modify the value of $status outside of the fish_prompt function.

fish ships with a number of example prompts that can be chosen with the fish_config command.

Example¶

A simple prompt:

function fish\_prompt -d "Write out the prompt"printf '%s@%s%s%s%s\> ' (whoami) (hostname | cut -d . -f 1) \(set\_color $fish\_color\_cwd) (prompt\_pwd) (set\_color normal)end