From: Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: Zsh-Users List <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Date format in prompt
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2020 07:50:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACeGjnUjDV6iYETzD-Le48G1-L-aW+8uCHJBM3+ECKJy5Fcqug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7a6BMat+jGwAfmxowV=xGOUqG1rGUy-ZWo5GX+iyM9BdA@mail.gmail.com>
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Excellent! Thanks. I copied prompt_bart_setup and changed the appropriate
line.
In the spirit of being greedy and improving the UX, how would you
parameterize this; how would you support US/normal/ISO date formats
(looking at the comment) in the same function?
Best,
Vin
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 5:22 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 2:00 PM Vin Shelton <acs@alumni.princeton.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've used prompt bart for as long as I can remember.
>
> Nice to know somebody else does. :-)
>
> > But I'm an ISO date kind of guy, and I'd like to use %D{%Y-%m-%d} to get
> a four-digit year. I've grovelled through the source code, but I can't
> figure out how to make the change. Is there an easy way to do what I want?
>
> It's this line in prompt_bart_ps1:
>
> date="%{$fg[%D]%}%D$rs" # Prefer "%{$fg[%D]%}%W$rs" in the USA?
>
> Just change to
>
> date="%{$fg[%D]%}%D{%Y-%m-%d}$rs"
>
> If changing in real time in an interactive shell (e.g. with zed -f),
> you then have to re-run prompt_bart_ps1
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-22 21:58 Vin Shelton
2020-11-22 22:22 ` Bart Schaefer
2020-11-24 12:50 ` Vin Shelton [this message]
2020-11-24 19:54 ` Bart Schaefer
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