From: Kevin Ballard Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:07:19 GMT Subject: Re: Add colors to the prompt for status indicators Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Nov 16, 2010, at 12:11 AM, Sebastien Douche wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 00:14, Kevin Ballard 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