Re: Add colors to the prompt for status indicators

From: Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>
Date: Nov 16, 2010, 09:07 UTC
Message-ID: <C43669C9-CD42-4D51-BFB9-567AAA422C06@sb.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimpyug867ccsKA+fLjzDJ8NukQXcPnVJw3Uk4LD@mail.gmail.com>

On Nov 16, 2010, at 12:11 AM, Sebastien Douche wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 00:14, Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> wrote:
>> I take it back. We can use PROMPT_COMMAND for this, to set up variables
>> containing what you want.
>> 
>> Something like the following should work:
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> good job! I looked the git prompt and I'm a bit disappointed with the
> combination, ps1 can show many items:
> 
> #
> %
> +
> *
> $
> REBASE-i|
> REBASE-m|
> MERGING|
> BISECTING|
> < > <> (or u+count u-count u+countu-count)
> 
> Each item is "optional", so you can have REBASE-i| with * and +, or
> only *. It seems to complicated to wrap all items (I think of the
> verbose mode for upstream branches). Maybe coding a lua (or Python)
> prompt with a config file.

In the end you need to stuff everything that needs a distinct color into its own shell variable. You could just extend the shell function that's doing that right now, or you could write a script in another language that emits a shell-quoted set of variables suitable for evaling by the shell.

-Kevin Ballard