Re: Add colors to the prompt for status indicators

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

> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 00:14, Kevin Ballard <kevin@xxxxxx> 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--
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