cedi / meaningful-error-codes

Display meaningful error codes in your zsh

Meaningful error codes

This plugin is meant to display error codes from a program in a meaningful way, by not just printing the error code, but also having a textual description for it. There are quite a few error codes which are special. They can be fount here.

Installing this plugin

1. cloning this repository to $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/
2. enabling the plugin in your zshrc

plugins=(meaningful-error-codes)

3. Adding ${exit_status} to your ZSH Prompt:

# i prefer to have this in my RPROMPT and colored red:
RPROMPT='%{$fg[red]%}${exit_status}%{$reset_color%}'

Example

You can see this plugin in action in my dotfiles repository:

• zshrc
• cedi-theme