Display an animated colored bar in zsh

zsh_raster

#
# ZSH Raster -- Spice up your .zshrc
#
# {{{ Copyright 2011 Hellekin O. Wolf <hellekinλcepheide*org>
#
#   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
#   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#   the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
#   (at your option) any later version.
#
#   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#   GNU General Public License for more details.
#
#   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
#   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
# }}}
# {{{ Log ZSHRC Loading (and make it really sexy)

PLIP_PREFIX="%{%F{13}%B%}(%{%b%F{9}%}loading%{%B%F{7}%}:%{%F{13}%})%{%F{9}%} "
PLIP_SUFFIX="%{%b%f%}"

# \e[0K is clear to right (Thanks Val!)
print_line_in_place plip () { print -Pn "\r\e[0K${PLIP_PREFIX}${*}${PLIP_SUFFIX}" }

function zshrc_raster()
{
    emulate -L zsh
    setopt braceccl

    local -F p=0.025
    local    s
    local -i i
    local -a c; c=( ▉ ▇ ▆ ▅ ▄ ▃ ▂ ▁ ▂ ▃ ▄ ▅ ▆ ▇ )

    PLIP_PREFIX=''; PLIP_SUFFIX=''

    for n in {1..78}
    do
        i+=1
        plip "%{%B%F{$i}%}"$(printf "${c[$i]}%.0s" {1..${n}})"%{%f%b%}"
        [[ $i == ${#c} ]] && i=0
        sleep $p
    done
}
zshrc_raster
#echo "\e[2J\e[0;0H"
# }}}

## Put more stuff and log each part using: 
#
#    plip "That part is loaded."
#
## So that when something breaks, you know where it is.
## Thanks to Val <val#v41*org> for inspiration.

# {{{ Finish Loading ZSHRC                                                                                                                                                                        
## One last subliminal line and clear display.                                                                                                                                                    
plip "%F{7}ZSH Loaded. %F{13}Welcome, $USER\!\e[;f\e[2J"
# }}}