Yes! that'd be neat Richo. I was thinking of doing that to the right prompt. Thanks Bart. I'll try to work that on a custom prompt. On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Richo Healey wrote: > On 13/07/16 11:17 -0300, Filipe Silva wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> short version: How can I profile each rendering of a zsh prompt? >> >> long version: I've recently came across a plugin (rupa/z) that, when >> installed, hit my zsh prompt rendering time by a noticeable amount. >> >> When I say prompt rendering time, I'm not refering to amount of time that >> it takes for the first zsh prompt to appear when I issue, for an example, >> `exec zsh` (that is achieve by issuing `time zsh -i -c "print -n"`). >> >> I'm talking about the time that it takes for zsh to give me another prompt >> once that it is fully loaded. In other words, I want to achieve this: >> >> ~ $ ls (when i hit enter, start counting) >> code/ notes/ file.txt >> ~ $ (stop counting when this prompt appears. show me elapsed time) >> >> Is that a way to do that? >> >> thanks in advance, >> >> Filipe Silva >> > > You could do something fairly janky and just wrap your whole prompt in a > function that emits the prompt, and time(1)'s itself. >