PS: Customize Your Prompt

Description:

Follow this post to setup a customized PS Prompt. Most of this comes from this post. See my dot files post for some references to these settings.

To Resolve:

1. Open admin PS and type:

   # Set your PowerShell execution policy
   Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Force
   
   # Install Chocolatey
   iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing | iex
   
   # Install Chocolatey packages
   choco install vim -y
   choco install conemu -y
   
   # Install PowerShell modules
   Install-PackageProvider NuGet -MinimumVersion '2.8.5.201' -Force
   Set-PSRepository -Name PSGallery -InstallationPolicy Trusted
   

2. Close out of the PS prompt and open ConEmu

   • Configure it like so:
   • Settings => Appearance: Single instance mode
   • Quake Style = Check the slide down checkbox
   • Startup = Change dropdown to {Shells:Powershell}
   • Keys and Macro = Assign Ctrl+(Backtick)
   • Colors = Import a theme from here or customize your own.
   • That’s it! Make sure to add the following to your profile:
   • Set-Alias vim -Value 'C:\Program Files (x86)\vim\vim80\gvim.exe'
   • Import-Module PSColor
   • As an addition to this, I like to set my prompt like so..

   function Prompt {
      $identity = [Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()
      $principal = [Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal] $identity
      $(if (test-path variable:/PSDebugContext) { '[DBG]: ' }
      elseif($principal.IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator"))
         {
         Write-Host ("[ADMIN] ") -nonewline -foregroundcolor Green
         # Print the current time:
         Write-Host ("[") -nonewline -foregroundcolor DarkGray
         Write-Host (Get-Date -format 'g') -nonewline -foregroundcolor Gray
         Write-Host ("][") -nonewline -foregroundcolor DarkGray
         # Print the working directory:
         Write-Host ($PWD) -nonewline -foregroundcolor Gray
         Write-Host ("]") -nonewline -foregroundcolor DarkGray
         Write-Host ("`r`n") -nonewline -foregroundcolor DarkGray
         # Print the prompt symbol:
         Write-Host ("#") -nonewline -foregroundcolor Green
         return " ";
         }
      else{
         # Print the current time:
         Write-Host ("[") -nonewline -foregroundcolor DarkGray
         Write-Host (Get-Date -format 'g') -nonewline -foregroundcolor Gray
         Write-Host ("][") -nonewline -foregroundcolor DarkGray
         # Print the working directory:
         Write-Host ($PWD) -nonewline -foregroundcolor Gray
         Write-Host ("]") -nonewline -foregroundcolor DarkGray
         Write-Host ("`r`n") -nonewline -foregroundcolor DarkGray
         # Print the prompt symbol:
         Write-Host ("#") -nonewline -foregroundcolor Green
         return " ";
         }
      )}
   

   • Copy and paste this into your profile. What it will do is make each command in Powershell or Powershell ISE have it’s own line.
   • A regular prompt will look like: \[Date / Time\] \[Current Directory\]
   • An Admin prompt will look the same but will have a green [ADMIN] in front.
   • More info on customizing your prompt can be found here.

3. Update 2018-03: My current prompt looks like PSProfile