virtualenv name not show in zsh prompt
Recently, I give a try on oh my zsh, everything looks good till I try virtualevn and virtualenvwrapper. When I activate a virtualenv (e.g test), on normal bash, I will see the virtualenv name like:
(test)abc@abc:
But when I switched to zsh, I cannot see virtualenv name. Even though, I alr add virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper in plugins of oh my zsh. I also checked the activate file of my virtualenv, it contains:
f [ -z "${VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT-}" ] ; then
_OLD_VIRTUAL_PS1="$PS1"
if [ "x" != x ] ; then
PS1="$PS1"
else
PS1="(`basename \"$VIRTUAL_ENV\"`) $PS1"
fi
export PS1
fi
Is it because the comparision ["x" != x] return true?
Updated: I tried to echo $PS1 in activate file, and got this:
(test) %{$fg[magenta]%}%n%{$reset_color%}%{$fg[cyan]%}@%{$reset_color%}%{$fg[yellow]%}%m%{$reset_color%}%{$fg[red]%}:%{$reset_color%}%{$fg[cyan]%}%0~%{$reset_color%}%{$fg[red]%}|%{$reset_color%}%{$fg[cyan]%}⇒%{$reset_color%}
It seems the $PS1 is correct, but when I echo $PS1 in the terminal, the (test) is gone. It seems the $PS1 is override by something else!
Solution 1:
Do this in ~/.zshrc
:
plugins=(virtualenv)
POWERLEVEL9K_RIGHT_PROMPT_ELEMENTS=(status virtualenv)
Caveats:
1 -- add that plugin in addition to other plugins you have.
2 -- I'm using the POWERLEVEL9K theme. Maybe you theme
Solution 2:
The best solution is to add the following to the end of your ~/.zshrc file:
export VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT=
This will override the value in virtualenv.plugin.zsh - no need to change that file.
Solution 3:
My setting to display Python virtualenv name for the default (a.k.a. robbyrussell
) theme is the following.
In the .zshrc
file
-
virtualenv
added inplugins
-
Add custom function:
function virtualenv_info { [ $VIRTUAL_ENV ] && echo '('`basename $VIRTUAL_ENV`') ' }
Navigate to your theme
- My theme is the default theme for
zsh
:$ vim ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/robbyrussell.zsh-theme
- Add this command right after existing
PROMPT
commands:PROMPT+='%{$fg[green]%}$(virtualenv_info)%{$reset_color%}%'
Finally
$ source ~/.zshrc
PS: You can add your name or a few space before or after the PROMPT+.
Hope that helps!
Solution 4:
Found the problem, it's due to the theme. The theme I used in the above case is pygmalion, it won't allow u to change $PS1.
After changed to robbyrussell theme, I can change $PS1 in terminal, but still cannot see the virtualenv name. After a while debugging, I found that by default the virtualenv plugin of oh my zsh disable the prompt:
# disables prompt mangling in virtual_env/bin/activate
export VIRTUAL_ENV_DISABLE_PROMPT=1
So just comment out the line in virtualenv plugin, problem solved.