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FISH_HG_PROMPT(1)

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FISH_HG_PROMPT(1)

NAME

fish_hg_prompt - output Mercurial information for use in a prompt

SYNOPSIS

fish_hg_prompt

function fish_prompt


     printf '%s' $PWD (fish_hg_prompt) ' $ '
end

DESCRIPTION

The fish_hg_prompt function displays information about the current Mercurial repository, if any.

Mercurial <https://www.mercurial-scm.org/> (hg) must be installed.

By default, only the current branch is shown because hg status can be slow on a large repository. You can enable a more informative prompt by setting the variable $fish_prompt_hg_show_informative_status, for example:

set fish_prompt_hg_show_informative_status

If you enabled the informative status, there are numerous customization options, which can be controlled with fish variables.

•: $fish_color_hg_clean, $fish_color_hg_modified and $fish_color_hg_dirty are colors used when the repository has the respective status.

Some colors for status symbols:

$fish_color_hg_added
$fish_color_hg_renamed
$fish_color_hg_copied
$fish_color_hg_deleted
$fish_color_hg_untracked
$fish_color_hg_unmerged

The status symbols themselves:

$fish_prompt_hg_status_added, default '✚'
$fish_prompt_hg_status_modified, default '*'
$fish_prompt_hg_status_copied, default '⇒'
$fish_prompt_hg_status_deleted, default '✖'
$fish_prompt_hg_status_untracked, default '?'
$fish_prompt_hg_status_unmerged, default '!'

Finally, $fish_prompt_hg_status_order, which can be used to change the order the status symbols appear in. It defaults to added modified copied deleted untracked unmerged.

See also fish_vcs_prompt <>, which will call all supported version control prompt functions, including git, Mercurial and Subversion.

EXAMPLE

A simple prompt that displays hg info:

function fish_prompt


    ...


    set -g fish_prompt_hg_show_informative_status


    printf '%s %s$' $PWD (fish_hg_prompt)
end

Copyright

fish-shell developers

October 12, 2026

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