From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: lining up RPS1 and PS1
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:53:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11fc1y0fzrde8$.td8r7q16atgb$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050606104341.GF26977@atoom.net>
* Miek Gieben (2005-06-06 11:43 +0100)
> [On 06 Jun, @12:35, Thorsten Kampe wrote in "Re: lining up RPS1 and PS1 ..."]
>> * Miek Gieben (2005-06-06 11:18 +0100)
>>> I've been looking into the RPS1 variable to spice up my prompt.
>>> Currently my prompt looks like this: (it's a 2-line prompt)
>>>
>>> [some info]
>>> %
>>>
>>> Now I wanted to make it look like this:
>>> [some info] [some more]
>>> %
>>> (where RPS1="[some more]")
>>
>> Not directly the answer you're waiting for: most people don't like
>> two-line-prompts and use it only because their shell doesn't have an
>> RPROMPT/RPS1.
>>
>> So the classic use for you would be
>> % [some info]
>> or
>> % [some more] [some info]
>
> thanks for your answer. But this is indeed not answer I'm looking for :)
>
> Changing my prompt in this way is too much of a change for my peace of
> mind :)
Well, okay. But see it like this: you're losing half of the screen/
/size/ for - probably - static information (meaning that "some
info"/"more info" doesn't change with every prompt).
And: please don't crosspost to .devel.
Thorsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-06 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-06 10:18 Miek Gieben
2005-06-06 10:35 ` Thorsten Kampe
2005-06-06 10:43 ` Miek Gieben
2005-06-06 10:53 ` Thorsten Kampe [this message]
2005-06-06 15:09 ` Gmane (Re: lining up RPS1 and PS1) Bart Schaefer
2005-06-06 16:23 ` Thorsten Kampe
2005-06-06 16:42 ` Miek Gieben
2005-06-06 16:53 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-06-06 15:04 ` lining up RPS1 and PS1 Dan Nelson
2005-06-06 15:23 ` Bart Schaefer
2005-06-06 16:38 ` Miek Gieben
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='11fc1y0fzrde8$.td8r7q16atgb$.dlg@40tude.net' \
--to=thorsten@thorstenkampe.de \
--cc=zsh-users@sunsite.dk \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.vuxu.org/mirror/zsh/
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).