Re: Prompt expansion, multi-job for

[Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de>]

Andre Pang wrote:

> Hiya guys,
> 
>     I've got two completely separate questions about zsh.
> 
>     1) Let's say I'm in the /usr/local/src path at the moment.  Normally, if
> you use the %~ prompt expansion, it will expand to /usr/local/src - no
> surprises there.  What I'd like to do is trim each path element to one
> character unless it's the last path element, in which case it should be
> displayed to a maximum of, say, 15 characters.  eg, /usr/local/src should be
> displayed as "/u/l/src", /usr/local/src/linux would be displayed as
> "/u/l/s/linux", and /usr/local/src/linux-2.2.14+reiserfs+raid+ide might be
> displayed as "/u/l/s/linux-2.2.14...".  Is this possible with the current
> prompt expansion codes, or will I have to write up a function to do it, if
> it's possible to do at all?

Not built-in. But you can always do any calculation you need in the
precmd function, stuff the result in the psvar array and use %v (or
any parameter if you use PROMPT_SUBST).


Bye
 Sven


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Sven Wischnowsky                         wischnow@informatik.hu-berlin.de