From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 05:59:08 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] prompt: don't scream continuation state Message-ID: <7v8v2qa02b.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20130604043836.GA3931@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > Even better, we can hit a middle ground by abstracting away some of the > complexity. The latter half of __git_ps1 is already fairly nice; w/i/s/u/c/p and friends can serve as the basis of such an abstraction, even though r does want to be separated further. I tried the GIT_PS1_SHOW* variables several times, but every time I did so, I eventually had to give up because I simply couldn't read and/or remember what */+#/$/% line noises meant. If we had a custom "collect these pieces and form the final presentation" mechanism, I could easily replace these with mnemonic letters that can be more easily memorable.