Customizing nushell prompt

By default, nushell's prompt shows your working directory on the left, and the date & time on the right. It looks like this:

As someone who was trying nu after using zsh for a long time, I wanted to replicate my old prompt, which showed me my working directory, current kubernetes cluster, and current k8s namespace:

Nushell configures your prompt in its environment script ($nu.env-path). If you open this file you will see two functions at the very top, create_left_prompt and create_right_prompt. you can see the default implementation for the date

def create_right_prompt [] {
    let time_segment = ([
        (date now | date format '%m/%d/%Y %r')
    ] | str join)

    $time_segment
}

I created a new function for my k8s prompt. I liked having the time on the prompt, so I left that (thought I didn't feel like I needed the date).

def kube_prompt [] {
    let k_prompt =  ([(kubectl ctx -c), (kubectl ns -c)] | str trim | str join '/')
    let d_prompt = ([(date now | date format '%r')] | str join)
    $"\(($k_prompt)\) ($d_prompt)"
}

Just below, we can edit the let-env PROMPT_COMMAND_RIGHT to look like:

let-env PROMPT_COMMAND_RIGHT = { kube_prompt }

Restarting your shell and you will see the new prompt