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• builtin prompts (Score:2)

  by Dom2 (2981) <{dom} {at} {happygiraffe.net}> on 2006.03.28 1:55 (#46807) Homepage Journal

  I use the builtin prompts that come with zsh. In particular, this setup works well for me:

  autoload -U promptinit ; promptinit
  prompt bart

  -Dom

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  • Re:builtin prompts (Score:2)

    by Simon (89)

    Oh, no, adam1 for me all the way. :) If you need the time and date, just drop this into your .screenrc: (You use screen, right?)

    hardstatus alwayslastline "%-w%{.wB}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{.w} %H: %l %{-}%d/%m %c"
    • Re:builtin prompts (Score:2)

      by Dom2 (2981)

      I never leave home without screen. But that's very neat -- I like it!

      -Dom
      • Re:builtin prompts (Score:1)

        by Aristotle (5147)

        Do note my other comment [perl.org].
    • Re:builtin prompts (Score:1)

      by rjbs (4671)

      I want the timestamp on my prompt so that I can see, when I look back, when I executed each command. That's one of the better status lines I've seen for screen; maybe I'll use it... but as for all the promptinit, most of them are too much. Too much color, too much text, too much 1337. Some of them are alright, but I think I'll stick with my new one.
      
      (How can people use three-line prompts? Yow!)

      --
      rjbs
    • Re:builtin prompts (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147)

      Don’t use hardstatus, use caption.

      hardstatus can be affected using escape sequences from within a screen window (so you don’t want it as the bottom line), but it can passed through to the title of an xterm if you set your .screenrc up correctly (so you want something else to set up the bottom line).

      Try this:

      caption always '%-w%{.wB}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{.w} %H: %l %{-}%d/%m %c'
      termcapinfo xterm*|rxvt* 'hs:ts=\E]2;:fs=\007:ds=\E]2;screen\007' # pass hardstatus thru to xterm