A cross-shell customizable powerline-like prompt heavily inspired by Agnoster. The faster rust port of bronze.

Unlike most shell prompts, silver is not written in shell script, but entirely in Rust.

When silver init is run, it outputs shell code that sets your left prompt to run silver lprompt and right prompt to silver rprompt, which output the actual prompt.

Since silver is not written in shell script, it should theoretically be compatible with any shell, but the supported shells are Powershell, Bash, Zsh, fish, Ion and Elvish.

To be able to use the custom icons (which are disabled by default), you must patch your font or install a pre-patched font from Nerd Fonts.

• install and setup Rust
• run cargo install --git https://github.com/reujab/silver

• download a binary on the releases page
• add binary to PATH environment variable

On macOS, you will have to do a bit more:

• install Homebrew
• run brew install coreutils
• run brew install openssl
• add alias date="gdate" to your shell config

Now that you have silver installed, you need to create silver.toml and put it in the following path:

• Linux: ~/.config/silver/silver.toml or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/silver/silver.toml
• macOS: ~/Library/Preferences/rs.silver/silver.toml

To have your prompt look like the screenshot at the top of the readme, configure silver.toml with:

[[left]]
name = "dir"
color.background = "blue"
color.foreground = "black"

[[left]]
name = "git"
color.background = "green"
color.foreground = "black"

[[right]]
name = "status"
color.background = "white"
color.foreground = "black"

[[right]]
name = "cmdtime"
color.background = "magenta"
color.foreground = "black"

[[right]]
name = "shell"
color.background = "green"
color.foreground = "black"

Now that silver is configured, you need to evaluate its bootstrap code.

~/.bashrc:

source <(silver init)

~/.config/ion/initrc:

eval $(silver init)

Invoke-Expression -Command $(silver init | Out-String)

See zsh plugin

See fish plugin

See elvish plugin

Documentation is available on the wiki.

• src/
  • modules/
    • cmdtime.rs
      • source code for the cmdtime module
    • dir.rs
      • source code for the dir module
    • env.rs
      • source code for the env module
    • git.rs
      • source code for the git module
    • mod.rs
      • handles modules
    • os.rs
      • source code for the os module
    • status.rs
      • source code for the status module
    • time.rs
      • source code for the time module
    • user.rs
      • source code for the user module
    • virtualenv.rs
      • source code for the virtualenv module
  • cli.rs
    • parses command line arguments
  • config.rs
    • parses TOML
  • icons.rs
    • processes icons, separators, and Unicode
  • init.bash
    • bootstrap code for Bash
  • init.ion
    • bootstrap code for Ion
  • init.ps1
    • bootstrap code for Powershell
  • main.rs
    • does all the magic
  • print.rs
    • prints prompt segments
  • sh.rs
    • shell-specific code