Merge pull request #117 from dritter/vi_customizations

Make the vi_mode segement more customizable.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 958889f2..e5c506ae 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -233,6 +233,12 @@ VI-Mode, you need to configure it separately in your `~/.zshrc`:
     # make it more responsive
     export KEYTIMEOUT=1
 
+If you want to display another string than "NORMAL" or "INSERT" in command or
+insert-mode, you can do that by setting environment variables like:
+
+    POWERLEVEL9K_VI_INSERT_MODE_STRING="INS"
+    POWERLEVEL9K_VI_COMMAND_MODE_STRING="CMD"
+
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