Re: [PATCH 1/6] prompt: don't scream continuation state

From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Jun 3, 2013, 08:58 UTC
Message-ID: <87r4gjzi3d.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>
In-Reply-To: <1370181822-23450-2-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com>

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

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> Currently, when performing any operation that saves the state and
> expects the user the continue (like rebase, bisect, am), the prompt
> screams:
>
>   artagnon|completion|REBASE-i 2/2:~/src/git$
>
> Lowercase the words, so we get a more pleasant
>
>   artagnon|completion|rebase-i 2/2:~/src/git$

So I'm not sure whether this falls under bikeshedding or actual features, but I like the screaming. When I first saw these displays, I thought that the point was that this display is more important than all the others, so it should be louder and easy to distinguish from the branch name (common ones, anyway).

Do you have other ways of distinguishing the branch and the state? Colors? I'm a bit too lazy to check. Perhaps it could be made to only use caps if not in colored mode?

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch