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 # A Powerline style prompt for your shell
 
-A [Powerline](https://github.com/Lokaltog/vim-powerline) like prompt for Bash,
-ZSH, Fish, and tcsh:
+A beautiful and useful prompt generator for Bash, ZSH, Fish, and tcsh:
 
 ![MacVim+Solarized+Powerline+CtrlP](https://raw.github.com/b-ryan/powerline-shell/master/bash-powerline-screenshot.png)
 
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 - Shows the current Python [virtualenv](http://www.virtualenv.org/) environment
 - It's easy to customize and extend. See below for details.
 
+The generated prompts are designed to resemble
+[powerline](https://github.com/powerline/powerline), but otherwise this project
+has no relation to powerline.
+
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