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From: Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: Length of %? in prompt
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:38:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020301123808.GB9242@stu163.keble.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0202281150320.710-100000@ns1.sodaware.com>

On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:00:06PM -0800, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> 
> > What I'm doing is something like this:
> >
> So something like (still using / and \ rather than graphics chars):
> 
> UL="$fg_bold[cyan]/"	# upper left
> UR="$fg_bold[cyan]\\"	# upper right
> PS1='$UL%$((COLUMNS-4))>->-stuff--more stuff--some more stuff---%<<$UR
> \$ $reset_color'

This won't help as the - still needs to be in the right colour etc, but

PS1='$UL%$((COLUMNS-3))>>-stuff--more stuff--some more stuff---%<<$UR
\$ $reset_color'

does what I want.

> For a much more complicated example of this same thing, see
> 
> 	Functions/Prompts/prompt_adam2_setup
> 
> in the 4.0.4 distribution.

OK, I'll take a look  :-)


Thanks
Ian


      reply	other threads:[~2002-03-01 12:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-26 16:05 Ian Lynagh
2002-02-26 16:48 ` Peter Stephenson
2002-02-26 17:10 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-02-26 18:08   ` Ian Lynagh
2002-02-26 18:26     ` Bart Schaefer
2002-02-26 18:42       ` Ian Lynagh
2002-02-26 19:21         ` Bart Schaefer
2002-02-28 15:34           ` Ian Lynagh
2002-02-28 16:45             ` Bart Schaefer
2002-02-28 17:12               ` Ian Lynagh
2002-02-28 21:00                 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-03-01 12:38                   ` Ian Lynagh [this message]

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