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
>