How can I change the prompt of my zsh shell while still retaining the cool coloring that agnoster provides? For people who don't know, it looks like this
I want to add some things like ! and \u before the working directories. I've tried the usual PS1="! \u \w" but it just gives this:
EDIT: I found the right escaped characters for inserting information, but it cancels out the styling
How can I change the prompt while maintaining the styling?
You'd have to customise the theme, i.e. .oh-my-zsh/themes/agnoster.zsh-theme, add your own function to the build_prompt function and add whatever you need to the prompt:
## Main prompt
build_prompt() {
RETVAL=$?
prompt_status
prompt_virtualenv
prompt_context
prompt_dir
prompt_git
prompt_hg
prompt_end
}
I personally added a prompt_custom stub, which I then replace with the real prompt function in my .zshrc, so I only have to maintain that small customisation (probabaly worthty of a pull request at some stage...)
prompt_custom() {
}
You can change the prompt_context() in .oh-my-zsh/themes/.zsh-theme with the following block of code
prompt_context() {
if [[ "$USER" != "$DEFAULT_USER" || -n "$SSH_CLIENT" ]]; then
prompt_segment black default "%(!.%{%F{yellow}%}.)~"
fi
}
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I'm trying to give my tmux panes individual titles. Since there is nothing built into tmux to assign titles, I'm using a function that will receive various properties of the pane and then lookup the title that I want based on those properties, and echo it out.
However, the test inside the function is not working as expected. Even when the session_name "portal" is passed in, it does not match the string "portal", even though the output is always exactly "portal".
I've removed all irrelevant code from the function to show just exactly the failing match:
tmux_pane_title() {
local session_name=$1
# ...
if [[ "$session_name" = "portal" ]] && echo ".${session_name}." || echo "-${session_name}-"
# ...
}
tmux set pane-border-format "#P: `tmux_pane_title \"#{session_name}\" \"#{pane_current_command}\" \"#{pane_current_path}\"` "
It always echos out "-portal-", showing the $1 is in fact "portal", but it does not match "portal" in the test.
I have tried using sed to remove newlines, but it made no difference.
However if I hard-code "portal" into the tmux format for pane-border-format it will suddenly work, suggesting there's some weird control character hidden in the name preventing it from working when I pass in session_name
tmux set pane-border-format "#P: `tmux_pane_title \"portal\" \"#{pane_current_command}\" \"#{pane_current_path}\"` "
If that's the case, how can I find and eliminate the control character? (And why would it be there? I did not enter anything weird into my tmuxinator.yml file for the session name.)
I've already tried removing control characters like this:
local session_name=$(echo $1 | tr -d "[:cntrl:]")
If that's not the case, how can I figure out what is breaking this function?
P.S. I'm on tmux 3.1b.
This is NOT an answer to the question, but it is a step in the direction of a solution to the problem that led me to ask the question. If you have the same problem, this may be helpful.
Although I'm still interested in solving the mystery related to the failing test, I found a way to set my pane titles more easily1.
There is a pane_title property that can be used in your pane-border-format:
tmux set pane-border-format "#{pane_title}"
If you set this format, then you can set the title with printf and escape sequences:
printf '\033]2;%s\033\\' 'your desired title'
(I had read about the printf technique elsewhere, both on and off SO, but it fails if you don't have the proper format including pane_title. No where else did I see these two things mentioned together. Without the combination, it fails. Assuming that the default format is set is not a safe assumption.)
A complete answer is still useful, so I could do things like this:
tmux set pane-border-format " #P: #{?pane_title,#{pane_title},`tmux_pane_title \"#{session_name}\" \"#{pane_current_command}\" \"#{pane_current_path}\"`} "
That would choose an explicit title if one were set, and default to the function to choose one. So please don't close this question as a duplicate of others that relate to setting tmux pane titles. IT IS DIFFERENT.
1In other words, I solved the problem but I didn't answer the question. Many people think SO is a problem-solving site, but it describes itself as a question & answer site. I doubt if many people have given this distinction much thought, but they are very different things.
I'm trying to modify zsh theme af-magic. I really like it except one part. It makes a line full if dashes after every command.
I would out that this {(l.COLUMNS..-.)} part does that. If I remove the whole section, or - to make it {(l.COLUMNS...)}, it draws an empty line.
So I want to get rid of this empty line. I tried to find \n anywhere, but there are none.
So this is the theme
# af-magic.zsh-theme
# Repo: https://github.com/andyfleming/oh-my-zsh
# Direct Link: https://github.com/andyfleming/oh-my-zsh/blob/master/themes/af-magic.zsh-theme
if [ $UID -eq 0 ]; then NCOLOR="red"; else NCOLOR="green"; fi
local return_code="%(?..%{$fg[red]%}%? ↵%{$reset_color%})"
# primary prompt
PROMPT='$FG[237]${(l.COLUMNS..-.)}%{$reset_color%}
$FG[032]%~/\
$(git_prompt_info)$(hg_prompt_info)\
$FG[105]%(!.#.)%{$reset_color%}'
PROMPT2='%{$fg[red]%}\ %{$reset_color%}'
RPS1='${return_code}'
# color vars
eval my_gray='$FG[237]'
eval my_orange='$FG[214]'
# right prompt
if type "virtualenv_prompt_info" > /dev/null
then
RPROMPT='$FG[078]$(virtualenv_prompt_info)%{$reset_color%} $my_gray%n#%m%{$reset_color%}%'
else
RPROMPT='$my_gray%n#%m%{$reset_color%}%'
fi
# git settings
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_PREFIX="$FG[075]($FG[078]"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_CLEAN=""
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_DIRTY="$my_orange*%{$reset_color%}"
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_SUFFIX="$FG[075])%{$reset_color%}"
# hg settings
ZSH_THEME_HG_PROMPT_PREFIX="$FG[075]($FG[078]"
ZSH_THEME_HG_PROMPT_CLEAN=""
ZSH_THEME_HG_PROMPT_DIRTY="$my_orange*%{$reset_color%}"
ZSH_THEME_HG_PROMPT_SUFFIX="$FG[075])%{$reset_color%}"
As a separate question, which language is this?
Just remove the use of COLUMNS from the prompt.
PROMPT='$FG[237]${(l.COLUMNS..-.)}%{$reset_color%}
$FG[032]%~/\
$(git_prompt_info)$(hg_prompt_info)\
$FG[105]%(!.#.)%{$reset_color%}'
Once you do that, you can also remove the code that colored the now-absent line, to get
PROMPT='$FG[032]%~/\
$(git_prompt_info)$(hg_prompt_info)\
$FG[105]%(!.#.)%{$reset_color%}'
The newline, by the way, was the line break embedded in the value (note there was no \ at the end of the first line of the original prompt).
I've removed and added a few times now the following line to ~/.tmux.conf:
set -ga terminal-overrides ',xterm*:smcup#:rmcup#'
Which according to the person who provided it does the following:
to fool the multiplexers into thinking that the terminal has no "alternate screen" mode (such as that used by pico, mutt, etc). This is accomplished by setting termcap commands for the session.
The 'xterm*' part of the command should be set to whatever your terminal-emulator is declared as.
The end result is that the overflow ends up in the terminal's scrollback buffer instead of disappearing. Of course, since this is one static buffer, things will get messy as you switch between screen or tmux windows, but this is handy for quickly flicking up to see the output of an ls command or the such.
I don't quite understand the bolded section (emphasis added), but guess this is the source of what I'm seeing. It's causing some weird sort of unicode overspill upon exiting tmux.
Pasted as plaintext this text won't show up, but the symbol [001B]112 appears alongside the usual [exited]:
]112[exited]
(FWIW I think it has pasted in that line, but isn't displaying)
I followed this advice ("Use terminal scrollbar with tmux"), and while it does work, this is just ugly/annoying to see that upon exiting. Can anyone advise how to fix or avoid the output message?
Offhand, I would get the unwanted "message" is some hard-coded application (or script) which is helpfully resetting the xterm dynamic text cursor color. See XTerm Control Sequences in the description of Operating System Controls:
The dynamic colors can also be reset to their default
(resource) values:
...
Ps = 1 1 2 -> Reset text cursor color.
So... somewhere there is some script doing the equivalent of
echo -n -e '\e]112\a
The results probably depend most on what particular terminal emulator you are using. Both screen and tmux filter out escape sequences that their developers did not care to implement, and pass through those that the terminal "should" handle.
Just take a look at sentence you provided: "The 'xterm*' part of the command should be set to whatever your terminal-emulator is declared as."
In my case, the $TERM has value xterm-256color and the corresponding line in ~/.tmux.conf looks like:
set -g terminal-overrides "xterm-color256:smcup#:rmcup#"
Currently an example line of my terminal will start with -> ~ git:(master)
But I'd like to update it to use the current user too: -> [tom] ~ git:(master)
Right now I'm using oh-my-zsh and I thought to override it, I'd add something to my .zshrc file, but I can't seem to find out where/what to add
You can use a zsh prompt expansion sequence, found in the manual page for zshmisc.
If you're using oh-my-zsh it's a bit tricky: you need to figure out what theme you're using, then modify it to include the right prompt sequence. The themes are kept in $HOME/.oh-my-zsh/themes. If you're really stuck, you could include the theme you're using in your question :)
The prompt expansion you're probably looking for is %n, which expands to $USERNAME.
I have been exploring some way in VIM to automatically append closing characters to a line of code. In my case it is CSS. I came across this tip http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Automatically_append_closing_characters and tweaked the code it tells me to add to my .vimrc like so
inoremap { {}<Left>
inoremap {<CR> {<CR>}<Esc>O
inoremap {{ {
inoremap {} {}
so when I write
body
and then press { and ENTER in rapid succession what results is
body {
}
Note that the cursor will be indented and on the 2nd line so I will be ready to write code in that block.
Also I should mention that I also added the following to my .vimrc
inoremap :: :;<Left>
so that when I type : and : in rapid succession I will get :; with the cursor located in between the : and ;. This exactly where I want to be so I can start writing code right away.
I got that working fine but I quickly realized that the auto complete plug in that I installed (AutoComplPop VIM plug-in http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1879) conflicts with the above .vimrc tweak.
So for example, if I start to write color I get the drop auto completion drop down menu of all options. The problem is that the option for color is actually color:.
You see it has a colon already added to it so when I select it, the colon is already there and then I have to manually add the closing ; character. This basically defeats the whole purpose of adding the auto appending closing character code to my .vimrc since in this case, it does not auto append the closing semicolon.
So how do I make a custom edit to VIM's Omni Completion so that all CSS properties do not end in a colon?
CSS auto completion options for VIM and came across AutoComplPop here http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1879
Assuming you are on a UNIX-like system…
Copy
/usr/share/vim/vim7x/autoload/csscomplete.vim
to
~/.vim/autoload/csscomplete.vim
Find the loop that generates the list of properties, for me it's at line 92.
Remove the colon from the second parameter of the two add().
These lines:
call add(res, m . ':')
call add(res2, m . ':')
become:
call add(res, m)
call add(res2, m)
Save the file.
Also there are many plugins for "auto closing" pairs of characters. I use DelimitMate.
And the issue is not related to ACP at all.