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<h1>fish_prompt - define the appearance of the command line prompt<a class="headerlink" href="#fish-prompt-define-the-appearance-of-the-command-line-prompt" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
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<div class="highlight-fish-synopsis notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nf">fish_prompt</span>
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<div class="highlight-fish-docs-samples notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nf">function</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">fish_prompt</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="nf">...</span>
<span class="nf">end</span>
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<h2>Description<a class="headerlink" href="#description" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fish_prompt</span></code> function is executed when the prompt is to be shown, and the output is used as a prompt.</p>
<p>The exit status of commands within <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fish_prompt</span></code> will not modify the value of <a class="reference internal" href="../language.html#variables-status"><span class="std std-ref">$status</span></a> outside of the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fish_prompt</span></code> function.</p>
<p>If <span class="target" id="index-0"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../language.html#envvar-fish_transient_prompt"><code class="xref std std-envvar docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fish_transient_prompt</span></code></a> is set to 1, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fish_prompt</span> <span class="pre">--final-rendering</span></code> is run before executing the commandline.</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fish</span></code> ships with a number of example prompts that can be chosen with the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fish_config</span></code> command.</p>
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<p>A simple prompt:</p>
<div class="highlight-fish-docs-samples notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nf">function</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">fish_prompt</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">-d</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;Write out the prompt&quot;</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="c"># This shows up as USER@HOST /home/user/ &gt;, with the directory colored</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="c"># $USER and $hostname are set by fish, so you can just use them</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="c"># instead of using `whoami` and `hostname`</span>
<span class="w">    </span><span class="nf">printf</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">&#39;%s@%s %s%s%s &gt; &#39;</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">$USER</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">$hostname</span><span class="nv"> \</span>
<span class="nv">        </span><span class="o">(</span><span class="nf">set_color</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">$fish_color_cwd)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">(</span><span class="nf">prompt_pwd</span><span class="o">)</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">(</span><span class="nf">set_color</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="no">normal</span><span class="o">)</span>
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