On Sun, 21 Jul 2013, Josh Cheek wrote: > When my terminal is too narrow to display my full prompt, fish switches > over to a shorter prompt ">" > > I can't find docs on how to customize this short prompt. > > I don't know CPP, so it's difficult for me to go into the code to see, but > acking through the project, it looks like it's here > https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/blob/f9c2a77c67754324f3036ec79501c6131d19562b/screen.cpp#L1076-1095 > > I basically always have multiple panes in my terminal, so it's not uncommon > for my prompt to get shortened, but I'd still like to have some of the > prompt information available, otherwise I feel lost :( > > Is there a way for me to customize this? Or should I edit the source and > compile myself or something? (I'm hesitant to do this, pretty sure I could > get it changed and compiled if I spent a few hours, but I have no idea > what's involved with installing it)
This is coming up a bit, and something that has been suggested a few times (see https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/904 for the most recent) is dynamically adapting your prompt based on the width of the window. You could try inspecting the $COLUMNS variable and outputting a different set of variables in the case that the prompt is too long. It would be nice to have a working example of this either in the FAQ or the example prompts; does anyone have one? David Adam fish committer zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
