Whetuu

An opinionated, zero-config status line and history picker for fish, bash and zsh, written in Zig.

Two things, not one. whetuu draws the status line above your cursor, and it puts your history on the up arrow.

Both live in one binary, so the picker knows where you are. The up arrow opens on what you ran in this directory, and Ctrl+G switches to all of it. Failed commands are never stored, so you do not scroll past your own typos.

Your own shell history stays exactly where it is. whetuu never reads or rewrites it, and keeps its own store alongside. See History for what the picker does and where it keeps things.

Pronounced feh-TOO ( /fɛˈtuː/ ). In Māori wh is an f sound, not a w . The macron in ū makes that vowel long, and a long vowel takes the stress, so it falls on the second syllable. The ASCII name doubles the u to write that same long vowel.

There is nothing to configure. One compiled binary renders one curated status line, the same for everyone. The slowest module runs as a task via std.Io while the rest run alongside it, so a render costs about what its slowest probe costs. See Performance .

Needs a Nerd Font . whetuu draws the git branch, the language logos and the star with Nerd Font glyphs. Most terminal setups already run one, so try whetuu first. If the star and the branch glyph come out as empty boxes, switch your terminal font and they will be there.