About

After having used prompt pure for about a year, I felt that a two-line prompt was not for me. Also not utilizing the right side of the terminal seemed a missed opportunity. Still there is much to like: the elapsed time of a process, the coloring of the prompt if the exit code of the process isn't 0, git integration. So I took "pure", mixed in my ideas of what a prompt should look like and came up with "lean" - a 1 line prompt that stays out of your face.

So lean is an evolution of pure, with the following changes:

Defaults to a very sparse setup, only showing information you need at the moment.
Comes with the perfect prompt character. Author went through the entire ASCII range to find it (and found it pretty quickly!)
Never displays your username (assuming you know who you are).
When tmux is active it shows a yellow 't' (I disabled the tmux bar, so this is some visual indication that tmux is active). If you don't want this indicator, you can always set PROMPT_LEAN_TMUX="" prior to loading this plugin (or prior to sourcing zgen, etc.).
Show remote host if logged in through SSH.
All in one line, most stuff in the right prompt, leaving the left prompt nice and clean
Shows background jobs (in the left prompt)
Show (dirty) git repos
Shortens path if needed (longer then 70% of your screen)
Uses PROMPT_LEAN_LEFT and PROMPT_LEAN_RIGHT to allow customization of the left and/or right side of the prompt.
For a configurable insertmode indicator, set the PROMPT_LEAN_VIMODE and PROMPT_LEAN_VIMODE_FORMAT variables. PROMPT_LEAN_VIMODE_FORMAT defaults to "%F{red}[NORMAL]%f"

When lean starts, only 2 characters show on the screen '%' on the left and '~' on the right. All other info is omitted (like the user and system you are on), and shown only when needed.

Here is a screencast showing the prompt. Note: for some reason the screencast does not show the space between the '%' character and the start of the command line. NOTE This issue has been fixed.

Installation

If you use zgen you can add the following to your ~/.zshrc:

zgen load miekg/lean

and force reload with zgen reset && source~/.zshrc.